The culture of unbelief : studies and proceedings from the First International Symposium on Belief held at Rome, March 22-27, 1969 / Rocco Caporale and Antonio Grumelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caporale, Rocco, 1927- author.

Grumelli, Antonio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief and doubt--Congresses.

Belief and doubt.

Skepticism--Congresses.

Skepticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1971]

Summary:

This volume presents to the general public the reflections of a group of social scientists and theologians who gathered in the spring of 1969 in Rome to explore "The Culture of Unbelief," and who have subsequently continued their interest in the subject. The book departs in places from the actual order of events of the symposium to accommodate papers prepared explicitly for publication after the symposium was over.--from the Editors' Preface This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

EDITORS' PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE. The Notion of Unbelief: Problems of Conceptualization and Research

1. Belief, Unbelief, and Religion

2. The Historical Background of Unbelief

3. The Study of Unbelief: Perspectives on Research

4. Secularization: Between Belief and Unbelief

5. Variations in Perspective on Secularization and Unbelief: Round Table Discussion

PART TWO. Responses to Position Papers

6. General Response in a Dialectical Key

7. Response to Bellah

8. Response to Glock

PART THREE. Views and counterviews: General Discussions

9. Toward a Definition of Unbelief. Highlights of the Discussion of Luckmann's Paper

10. On the Development of Unbelief. Highlights of the Discussion of Bellah's Paper

11. Unbelief: Can It Be Scientifically Studied? Highlights of the Discussion of Clock's Paper

PART FOUR. Postscripts and New Frontiers

12. Belief, Unbelief, and Disbelief

13. Unbelief as an Object of Research

14. Between Religion and Social Science

APPENDICES

1. Program of the Symposium on the Culture of Unbelief

2. Biographical Descriptions of Participants in the Symposium

3. Address by Paul VI to the Participants in the Symposium

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-37742-7

OCLC:

1436832096