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Author Smith, Huston.

Title Why religion matters : the fate of the human spirit in an age of disbelief / Huston Smith.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, ©2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Eucalyptus  200 Sm58w 2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description xiv, 290 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes index.
Contents pt. 1. Modernity's tunnel. Who's right about reality : traditionalists, modernists, or the postmoderns? ; The great outdoors and the tunnel within it ; The tunnel as such ; The tunnel's floor : Scientism ; The tunnel's left wall : higher education ; The tunnel's roof : the media ; The tunnel's right wall : the law -- pt. 2. The light at the tunnel's end. Light ; Is light increasing : two scenarios ; Discerning the signs of the times ; Three sciences and the road ahead; Terms for the détente ; This ambiguous world ; The big picture ; Spiritual personality types ; Spirit.
Summary The author shares his insights into the future role of religion in human affairs as he explores the challenges confronting the human spirit in the modern world.
Subject Religion and science.
Religion and science. (OCoLC)fst01093848
ISBN 0060670991
9780060670993
0060671025 (pbk.)
9780060671020 (pbk.)

 
    
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