1st Edition
Culture and Civilization Volume 4, Religion in the Shadows of Modernity
Edited By Irving Louis Horowitz
Copyright 2012
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare" between science and religion is long dismissed. Emphasizing this fact of the continuing relevance and importance of religion as a driving force in contemporary life is the stunning emergence on the world scene... Read more
1: Christian Sources of Western Civilization; 2: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse; 3: Economic Structure and the Life of the Jews; 4: Why is Africa Poor?; 5: Freedom and Exchange in Communist Cuba; 6: Regime Change and Democracy in China; 7: Shifting Balances between Business and Government in the United States; 8: The Democratic Warrior and his Social Identity; 9: Reconstruction of Liberal Education; 10: The Anti-leadership Vaccine; 11: The Social Context of Medicine; 12: Crane Brinton, the New History, Retrospective Sociology, and The Jacobins; 13: Herbert Spencer and the Science of Ethics; 14: Hannah Arendt as Radical Conservative; 15: Max Gluckman, The Politics of Law and Ritual in Tribal Society
Biography
Irving Horowitz
