Religion in the National Agenda
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A01=C. John Sommerville
agenda
America
Author_C. John Sommerville
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culture
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religion
secular
spiritual
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- ISBN 9781602581630
- Weight: 531g
- Dimensions: 161 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2009
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this highly provocative investigation, C. John Sommerville examines common linguistic uses of the terms ""religion,"" ""religious,"" ""spiritual,"" and ""secular"" in order to discern understandings of these words in contemporary American culture. For example, he finds that, in English, ""religion"" is our word for a certain kind of response to a certain kind of power (the power and the response both being beyond anything else in our experience). Sommerville then uses these definitions to examine the ways that institutions in the fields of education, science, law, politics and religion are affected--often in unexpected ways--by a shared set of assumptions about what these words mean.
C. John Sommerville (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Florida. He is the author of nine books, including most recently, The Decline of the Secular University (2006), How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society (1999), and The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamic of Daily Information (1996).
