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Beyond Belief - Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditionalist World (Paperback, New ed)
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One of the foremost younger sociologists of religion gathers in
this volume a variety of essays he has written in the past decade,
and given them coherence around the general theme of the religious
situation today. Although he presents them as a contribution to the
identification of religion as an independent field of reflection
and research in the university, their interest and value lies in
the sweep they give to those trends and movements in the
contemporary world that raise perennial religious issues with new
urgency. All the great overarching systems of belief, conservative
and radical alike, have lost their viability. What is sought today
is a religious outlook and expression that accommodates the
increased freedom of personality and society in the modern world.
The author draws upon diverse resources in his discussion of the
changes affecting contemporary religion - his studies in Asia,
particularly Japan; his knowledgeability as a sociologist of
religion; and his sensitivity to the artistic - the "ecstatic
symbolisms" which he finds in the poetry of Wallace Stevens or the
writings of Norman O. Brown. The result is a volume that has few
rivals as an account of where the human race has arrived,
religiously, in our day. What gives authenticity to the author's
writing is the constant sense of his participation in the movements
and tendencies he is describing. This should have wide readership
among all serious students of our present cultural crisis. (Kirkus
Reviews)
"Beyond Belief" collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays
in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and
society in concrete contexts from Japan to the Middle East to the
United States. First published in 1970, "Beyond Belief" is a
classic in the field of sociology of religion.
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