Religion and the social sciences : conversations with Robert Bellah and Christian Smith / edited by R. R. Reno & Barbara McClay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reno, Russell R., 1959- editor.

McClay, Barbara, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and the social sciences.

Bellah, Robert.

Smith, Christian.

Physical Description:

xxii, 117 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2015]

Summary:

More often than not it's a class in the social sciences that challenges the faith of students, not a class in biology. Does critical understanding of our religious traditions, institutions, and convictions undercut them? Or can a modern social scientific approach deepen faith's commitments, making us full participants in today's intellectual culture? In these conversations with eminent sociologists Robert Bellah and Christian Smith, leading scholars probe the religious potential of modern social science-and its theological limits. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Religion and human evolution / Robert Bellah

From play to freedom / Francesca Aran Murphy

Impossible pluralism / Paul Griffiths

Sociology as theology / Thomas Joseph White

A reply to my critics / Robert Bellah

Ritual and religion / Lenn Goodman

An offensive book / Philip Gorski

Natural theology, revealed theology, liveral theology / Edward Feser

Part II. What is a person? / Christian Smith

THe person befor eGod / Phillip Cary

Revelation's nature / David Yeago

On being human / Candace Vogler

Religion's rightful claim / David Novak

The gimlet-eye of social science / James R. Rogers

Reductive temptations / Stephen C. Meredith

Reply to my critics / Christian Smith.

ISBN:

1625641729

9781625641724

OCLC:

917341257

Publisher Number:

99964865380