Religion and the Human Prospect

by Alexander Saxton

Book Overview

Since September 11, 2001, religion has been at the center of debates about the global future. Religion and the Human Prospect relates these issues systematically to a path-breaking interpretation of the history of religion, its part in human development, and its potential role in preventing or enabling global catastrophe.
Religion has made possible critical transitions in the emergence and development of human society. At the moment when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583671331
• ISBN13: 9781583671337
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"