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Returning to Religion : Why a Secular Age is Haunted by Faith

Paperback • 2008 • Norwegian Bokmål

Returning to Religion : Why a Secular Age is Haunted by Faith

By Jonathan. Benthall

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About the book

How can one explain the resurgence of religion, even in a western context of rationality and scientific endeavour? The persistence of religious expression has compelled even diehard secularists, or proponents of the 'secularization thesis', to rethink their positions. Jonathan Benthall explains precisely why societies are not bound to embrace western liberal rationality as an evolutionary inevitability. He shows that the opposite is true: that where a secular society represses the religious imag...Show more

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ISBN

9781845117184

Publisher

London : I.B.Tauris

Published year

2008

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Returning to Religion : Why a Secular Age is Haunted by Faith

Format

Paperback

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