Encountering the Secular: Philosophical Endeavors in Religion and Culture

by J. Heath Atchley

Book Overview

In Encountering the Secular, J. Heath Atchley proposes an alternative to the understanding of the secular as that which opposes the religious, and he turns to American and Continental philosophy to support his critique. Drawing from thinkers as disparate as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Gilles Deleuze, and engaging with contemporary literature and film, Atchley shows how the division of experience (individual, cultural, political) into the distinct...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392782X
• ISBN13: 9780813927824
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary