Publication

1993 - Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

71,500 words, Guess

Page Count

286 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • LibraryThing3693899
  • Goodreads1493747
  • WikidataQ114612714

Classifications

  • DDC261
  • LCCBR115.C8 S26 1993

Description

Does religion reinforce the balkanization of cultural attitudes or does it help people transcend their culture? A noted scholar of world Christianity, Lamin Sanneh offers Westerners a perspective on such questions, a way to test the religio-cultural water and air in which they live. He shows how modernity has made of moderns "cultural believers" and "religious agnostics," and how the stubborn refusal to confront this bias in both secular and religious culture depletes both Christianity and Western culture.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • World Christian theology series

Other Editions

  • Encountering the West: Christianity and the global cultural process : the African dimensionOrbis Books1993-01-01

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