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Human Values in a Changing World - A Dialogue on the Social Role of Religion (Hardcover)
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Human Values in a Changing World - A Dialogue on the Social Role of Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Echoes and Reflections Series
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In a spontaneously wide-ranging conversation one winter evening in
Japan, sociologist of religion Bryan Wilson and Buddhist
philosopher Daisaku Ikeda recognized the importance of explaining
and learning about their respective worldviews. "Human Values in a
Changing World" is the record of their further exchanges on how
they see the religious response to the human condition. Their
contrasting approaches - one, as an academic, and the other, as a
lay Buddhist - allow for a constructive critique of preconceptions
otherwise unexamined in their own cultural contexts."There is an
intimate connection between faith and the fruits of commitment,"
Wilson says at one point. To which Ikeda responds that while the
benefits of faith to momentary happiness are perhaps not the core
value of a religion, they can inspire and lead people to become
aware of that core value or fundamental truth. The two men's
observations on the origins of religious sensibilities move from
the spiritual and the moral to the politics of private and public
life. Although published some years ago, "Human Values in a
Changing World" addresses topics and issues which are of perennial
importance to human flourishing, including: sexual morality, the
limits of tolerance and religious freedom, the future of the
family, the belief in an afterlife, and the idea of sin.
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