Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism

by Tyler Roberts and Tyler T. Roberts

Book Overview

Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231147538
• ISBN13: 9780231147538
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"