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Faith as an Option

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Faith as an Option

By Hans Joas

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About the book

Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's spiritual and moral well-being. But does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization lead to moral decay? Sociologist Hans Joas argues that these two supposed certainties have kept scholar...Show more

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9780804788731

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

2014

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