02058cam a2200301 a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007302000420009002000390013203500240017104000590019505000220025410000490027624501090032526000510043430000250048550400640051050503180057452006800089265000140157265000180158665000160160465000260162065000270164685600830167315218321AUA.120130110102411.0080313s2009    txu      b    001 0 eng    a  2008011908  a9781602581630 (hardback : alk. paper)  a1602581630 (hardback : alk. paper)  a(OCoLC)ocn214282425  aDLCcDLCdBTCTAdYDXCPdOCLCGdC#PdBWXdCDXdSGBdDLC00aBL 51b.S621 20091 aSommerville, C. Johnq(Charles John),d1938-10aReligion in the national agenda :bwhat we mean by religious, spiritual, secular /cC. John Sommerville.  aWaco, Tex. :bBaylor University Press,cc2009.  axi, 241 p. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-234) and index.0 aGrowing confusion over religion and spirituality -- Defining "religious" and "religion" -- Why religion and education challenge each other -- Religion and the law -- Religion and political variety -- Science and reductionism -- Sciences of human life -- Religion and theologies at odds -- What we mean by secular.  aC. John Sommerville examines common linguistic uses of the terms "religion," "religious," "spiritual," and "secular" in order to discern the proper use of these words in contemporary American culture. For example, he finds that, in English, "religion" is our word for a certain kind of response to a certain kind of power (the power and the response both being beyond anything else in our experience). Sommerville then redeploys these definitions to examine the ways that institutions in the fields of education, science, law, politics and religion are affected-often in unexpected ways-by a shared set of assumptions about what these words mean. --from publisher description 0aReligion. 0aSpirituality. 0aSecularism. 0aReligion and science. 0aReligion and politics.413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0814/2008011908.html