Humanism and Religion: A Call for the Renewal of Western Culture

by Jens Zimmermann

The question of who 'we' are and what vision of humanity 'we' assume in Western culture lies at the heart of hotly debated questions on the role of religion in education, politics, and culture in general. The need for recovering a greater purpose for social practices is indicated, for example, by the rapidly increasing number of publications on the demise of higher education, lamenting the fragmentation of knowledge and university culture's surrender...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199697752
• ISBN13: 9780199697755
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"