Author : Richard Curtis
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739141910
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Book Synopsis Reasonable Perspectives on Religion by : Richard Curtis
Download or read book Reasonable Perspectives on Religion written by Richard Curtis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the surprising publishing success of the so-called New Atheists it has become clear that there is a market for critical discussions about religion. A religion is much more complex than a set of beliefs which cannot be proven, as the New Atheists argue. There is, in fact, much more to religion and much more to the arguments about its truth claims. This book seeks to bring together a range of discussions, both critical and apologetic, each of which examines some part of religion and its functions. Half of the contributors are critical of some element of religion and the other half are apologetic in nature, seeking to defend or extend some particular religious argument. Covering a wide range of topics, including ethics, religious pluralism, the existence of God, and reasonableness of Islam, these pieces have in common arguments that are made in careful and scholarly ways_they represent reasonable perspectives on a wide swath of contemporary religious debates, in contrast to the unreasonableness that creeps into discussions on religion in American society.