Private Needs, Public Selves: Talk about Religion in America, Հատոր 10University of Illinois Press, 1997 - 262 էջ Polls through the '90s show that many Americans believe the nation is in a period of spiritual decline, yet public religious display and discussion often is deemed politically incorrect. Philosopher John K. Roth feels that more outward sharing of religious beliefs, thoughts, and ideas would bridge the gap between our private needs and our public selves--and would give Americans of differing faiths a common identity. |
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... Although I have much to write to you , I would rather not use paper and ink ; instead I hope to come to you and talk with you face to face , so that our joy may be complete . - 2 JOHN 12 Lift up your eyes Upon this day breaking for you.
... Although I have much to write to you , I would rather not use paper and ink ; instead I hope to come to you and talk with you face to face , so that our joy may be complete . - 2 JOHN 12 Lift up your eyes Upon this day breaking for you.
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... Beyond sponsor- ing scholarly papers and creative expressions in the arts , the project com- missioned books . One of the invitations to write on this theme came to me . As I realized at once and would continue to discover PREFACE.
... Beyond sponsor- ing scholarly papers and creative expressions in the arts , the project com- missioned books . One of the invitations to write on this theme came to me . As I realized at once and would continue to discover PREFACE.
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... write a book that focused on public expressions of religion in the United States , a topic as ambiguous as it is vast . In addition , the writing had to be readable , interesting , and informed by sound scholarship but directed to an ...
... write a book that focused on public expressions of religion in the United States , a topic as ambiguous as it is vast . In addition , the writing had to be readable , interesting , and informed by sound scholarship but directed to an ...
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... write this book ? What questions , themes , data , experi- ences , and theories would I discuss ? How would I organize the inquiry's findings ? Such issues were mine to resolve , but the fact that they ultimately belonged to me did not ...
... write this book ? What questions , themes , data , experi- ences , and theories would I discuss ? How would I organize the inquiry's findings ? Such issues were mine to resolve , but the fact that they ultimately belonged to me did not ...
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... writes that values are the nation's " most potent political issue " and its " most important real issue . " 4 In agreement , I would add that both dimensions of that issue in- vite , indeed require , talk about religion in America ...
... writes that values are the nation's " most potent political issue " and its " most important real issue . " 4 In agreement , I would add that both dimensions of that issue in- vite , indeed require , talk about religion in America ...
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Defining Talk about Religion | xxi |
Mapping America | 17 |
How Much? What Kind? American Needs for Religious Discourse | 42 |
Virtue and Religion | 66 |
American Beliefs Popular Opinions and Religious Inclinations | 88 |
Religion Matters | 119 |
Getting Along in America How Talk about Religion Can Help | 140 |
Things Unspoken Religion and Human Rights | 164 |
The Shadow of Birkenau How to Talk about Religion in Public | 193 |
Deepening Talk about Religion | 217 |
Select Bibliography | 241 |
Index | 249 |
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Էջ xv - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Էջ xiv - The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficult}', and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.
Էջ xv - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.