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9780813210155

Progress and Religion : An Historical Inquiry

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813210155

  • ISBN10:

    0813210151

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-10-01
  • Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr

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Summary

Progress and Religion was perhaps the most influential of all Christopher Dawson's books, establishing him as an interpreter of history and a historian of ideas. A brilliant work of synthesis, the book outlines his main thesis for the history of culture, which was his life's work. Anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religion, and history formed the backdrop for the key idea of his thought -- namely, that religion is the soul-of a culture and that a society or culture which has lost its spiritual roots is a dying culture.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Christina Scott
Introduction xxi
Mary Douglas
Preface 3(2)
Dawson's Table of Contents 5(10)
PART I
Sociology and the Idea of Progress
15(15)
History and the Idea of Progress
30(17)
Anthropology and the Theory of Progress: The Material Foundations of Culture
47(16)
The Comparative Study of Religions and the Spiritual Element in Culture
63(18)
PART II
Religion and the Origins of Civilization
81(16)
The Rise of the World Religions
97(23)
Christianity and the Rise of Western Civilization
120(20)
The Secularization of Western Culture and the Rise of the Religion of Progress
140(18)
The Age of Science and Industrialism: The Decline of the Religion of Progress
158(23)
Conclusion
181(12)
Bibliography, compiled 193(2)
Christina Scott
Index of Proper Names 195

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