Returning to Religion: Why a Secular Age Is Haunted by Faith

by Jonathan Benthall

How can one explain the resurgence of religion, even in a western context of rationality, postmodernity and scientific endeavour? The persistence of religious expression has compelled even diehard secularists, or proponents of the 'secularization thesis', to rethink their positions. Jonathan Benthall explains precisely why societies are not bound to embrace western liberal rationality as an evolutionary inevitability. He shows that the opposite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845117182
• ISBN13: 9781845117184
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"