01746cam a2200253 a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000140007302000150008704000230010204300120012508200170013710000230015424500990017725000120027626000410028830000360032950500140036550504100037952006370078965000310142665100350145721077247AUA.120151112163412.0900126s1990 nyuc 000 0deng  a89092573  a0345331710 aDLCcDLCdOCLdEXN an-us---00a200/.9732201 aBerman, Phillip L.14aThe search for meaning :bAmericans talk about what they believe and why /cPhillip L. Berman. a1st ed. aNew York :bBallantine Books,c1990. axii, 451 p. :bports. ;c24 cm. aContents: aBook One -- Knockin' bark off trees -- Problems of evil -- War -- The color line -- Outcasts -- Survivors -- Book Two -- Hedonic calculus -- Young folks -- The nihilist, the hooker, and the chessman -- Earthly delights -- The muse -- In the public eye -- Home on the range -- Book Three -- True believers -- Investments of faith -- Visiting spirits -- Men of the cloth -- Alternative altars -- Motherhood. a "What do Americans, as a people, believe in? What are the experiences that have transformed our lives? How does faith--in God, in human goodness, in politics, progress, money, or pleasure--illuminate our actions? These are the questions that Phillip L. Berman, editor of The Courage of Conviction, asked when he set off on a four-year, 35,000-mile odyssey to chronical America's moral imagination. The result of his quest is The Search for Meaning. This engrossing and radiantly insightful book is the first and only oral history of the relilgious and philosophical belilefs of contemporary Americans." - Publisher's description  0aInterviewszUnited States. 0aUnited StatesxReligiony1960-