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EBOOK Humanism and Religion:A Call for the Renewal of Western Culture
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191613272
EAN: C9D23E9BEB
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Stron: 400
Data wydania: 2012
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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 to market-driven        pragmatism. TheWest's cultural rootlessness and lack of cultural identity are also        revealed by the failure of multiculturalism to integrate religiously vibrant        immigrant cultures. A main cause of the West's cultural malaise is the long-standing        separation of reason and faith.Jens Zimmermann suggests that the West can        rearticulate its identity and renew its cultural purpose by recovering the        humanistic ethos that originally shaped Western culture. In tracing the religious        roots of humanism from patristic theology, through the Renaissance into modern        philosophy, we find that humanism was originally based on the correlation of reason        and faith. In this book, the author combines humanism, religion, and hermeneutic        philosophy to re-imagine humanism for our currentcultural and intellectual climate.          The hope of this recovery is for humanism to become what Charles Taylor has called a        'social imaginary', an internalized vision of what it means to be human. This vision        will encourage, once again, the correlation of reason and faith in order to overcome        current culturalimpasses, such as those posed, for example, by religious and        secularist fundamentalisms.

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