Private Needs, Public Selves: Talk about Religion in America, Band 10University of Illinois Press, 1997 - 262 Seiten 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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... Give birth again To the dream . Women , children , men , Take it into the palms of your hands , Mold it into the shape of your most Private need . Sculpt it into The image of your most public self . MAYA ANGELOU , " On the Pulse of ...
... Give birth again To the dream . Women , children , men , Take it into the palms of your hands , Mold it into the shape of your most Private need . Sculpt it into The image of your most public self . MAYA ANGELOU , " On the Pulse of ...
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... give both popular culture and philosophical analysis their due . Doing so , it starts to bridge a divide that needlessly hinders the study of religion in America . The challenges to speak publicly on the book's commissioned topic and to ...
... give both popular culture and philosophical analysis their due . Doing so , it starts to bridge a divide that needlessly hinders the study of religion in America . The challenges to speak publicly on the book's commissioned topic and to ...
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... give pleasure to our bodies in moments of passion and aid and comfort in times of affliction and distress . It is in and through the hands of other people that the commonwealth of nature is appropriated and accommodated to the needs and ...
... give pleasure to our bodies in moments of passion and aid and comfort in times of affliction and distress . It is in and through the hands of other people that the commonwealth of nature is appropriated and accommodated to the needs and ...
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... give , and what we pre- serve . We shall nobly save , or meanly lose , the last best hope of earth.3 Lincoln's words fit the United States almost as well in the late 1990s as they did in 1862 or in 1942 , when Copland set them to music ...
... give , and what we pre- serve . We shall nobly save , or meanly lose , the last best hope of earth.3 Lincoln's words fit the United States almost as well in the late 1990s as they did in 1862 or in 1942 , when Copland set them to music ...
Inhalt
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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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite xv - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.