02568cam a2200361 a 4500 15218321 AUA.1 20130110102411.0 080313s2009 txu b 001 0 eng 2008011908 9781602581630 (hardback : alk. paper) 1602581630 (hardback : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn214282425 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG C#P BWX CDX SGB DLC BL 51 .S621 2009 Sommerville, C. John (Charles John), 1938- 30617 Religion in the national agenda : what we mean by religious, spiritual, secular / C. John Sommerville. Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2009. xi, 241 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-234) and index. Growing 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. C. 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 Religion. 30618 Spirituality. 30619 Secularism. 30620 Religion and science. 30621 Religion and politics. 30622 Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0814/2008011908.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BOOK BL 51 .S621 2009 8879 8879 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2013-01-10 Donation, Theological Book Network 25.00 AUA012158 1 BL 51 .S621 2009 AUA012158 2017-11-24 00:00:00 2017-11-08 25.00 2013-01-10 BOOK