TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berman,Phillip L.
TI  - The search for meaning: Americans talk about what they believe and why 
SN  - 0345331710
U1  - 200/.973 20
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Interviews
KW  - United States
KW  - Religion
KW  - 1960-
N1  - Contents; Book 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
N2  -  	
"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
ER  -