Religion in the National Agenda: What We Mean by Religious, Spiritual, Secular

by C. John Sommerville

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602581630
• ISBN13: 9781602581630
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher