Religion
What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
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Word Count
74,000 words, Guess
Page Count
296 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivereligionwhatitis0000smit
- ISBN-139780691175416
- ISBN-100691175411
- Library of Congress Control Number2017005886
- OCLC Control Number974676348
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780691175416
- Better World BooksT2-FNZ-225
- Open LibraryOL29347193M
Classifications
- LCCBL48.S5937 2017
- LCCBL48 .S5937 2017
Description
"Drawing on the philosophy of critical realism and personalist social theory, Christian Smith answers key questions about the nature, powers, workings, appeal, and future of religion. He defines religion in a way that resolves myriad problems and ambiguities in past accounts, explains the kinds of causal influences religion exerts in the world, and examines the key cognitive process that makes religion possible. Smith explores why humans are religious in the first place--uniquely so as a species--and offers an account of secularization and religious innovation and persistence that breaks the logjam in which so many religion scholars have been stuck for so long." -- Provided by the publisher.
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