Religion and Modern Thought

by Harrison, Victoria S.

• ISBN13: 9780334041269
• ISBN10: 0334041260
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-30
• Publisher: Presbyterian Pub Corp

Summary

The SCM Core Text: Religion and Modern Thoughtexamines in detail the relationship between religion and modern and post-modern thought and culture. The book provides an introduction to the extremely wide variety of forms of religious thought and examines how, in the West, adherents of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have responded to the impact of modernity upon religion, either by attempting to restructure their religious belief systems or by asserting a uniquely modern form of religious traditionalism.

Author Biography

Victoria S. Harrison is a lecturer in the philosophy department and the department of religious education at the University of Glasgow.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Defining religion and the religious person	p. 15
The three Abrahamic faiths	p. 41
The challenge of reason	p. 81
New conceptions of religious language	p. 115
The impact of science	p. 158
Religion in a pluralist world	p. 196
Religion, politics and the environment	p. 234
Modern women and traditional religion	p. 276
Religious fundamentalism and modernity	p. 319
Religion and postmodernism	p. 360
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