Seven Ways of Looking at Religion: The Major Narratives

by Benjamin Schewel

An ambitious young scholar's lucid analysis of religion's shifting place in the modern world

Western intellectuals have long theorized that religion would undergo a process of marginalization and decline as the forces of modernity advanced. Yet recent events have disrupted this seductively straightforward story. As a result, while it is clear that religion has somehow evolved from its tribal beginnings up through modernity and into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300218478
• ISBN13: 9780300218473
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"