ISBN:
9780520274280
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9780520954267 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
343 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780520954267
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
212
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
The United States is one of the most highly educated societies on earth, and also one of the most religious. In The God Problem, Robert Wuthnow examines how middle class Americans juggle the seemingly paradoxical relationship between faith and reason.Based on exceptionally rich and candid interviews with approximately two hundred people from various faiths, this book dispels the most common explanations: that Americans are adept at keeping religion and intellect separate, or that they are a nation of "joiners."" Instead, Wuthnow argues, we do this-not by coming up with rational proofs ...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
