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Human Values in a Changing World: A Dialogue
Bryan Wilson
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Description for Human Values in a Changing World: A Dialogue
Hardback. Addresses topics and issues which are of importance to human flourishing, including: sexual morality, the limits of tolerance and religious freedom, the family, the belief in an afterlife, and the idea of sin. Series: Echoes and Reflections Series. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLB; JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 618.
In a spontaneously wide-ranging conversation one winter evening in Japan, sociologist of religion Bryan Wilson and Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda recognized the importance of explaining and learning about their respective worldviews. "Human Values in a Changing World" is the record of their further exchanges on how they see the religious response to the human condition. Their contrasting approaches - one, as an academic, and the other, as a lay Buddhist - allow for a constructive critique of preconceptions otherwise unexamined in their own cultural contexts."There is an intimate connection between faith and the fruits of commitment," Wilson says at one ... Read more
In a spontaneously wide-ranging conversation one winter evening in Japan, sociologist of religion Bryan Wilson and Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda recognized the importance of explaining and learning about their respective worldviews. "Human Values in a Changing World" is the record of their further exchanges on how they see the religious response to the human condition. Their contrasting approaches - one, as an academic, and the other, as a lay Buddhist - allow for a constructive critique of preconceptions otherwise unexamined in their own cultural contexts."There is an intimate connection between faith and the fruits of commitment," Wilson says at one ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
295
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Echoes and Reflections Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845115975
SKU
V9781845115975
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About Bryan Wilson
Bryan Wilson, who died in 2004, was Emeritus Reader in Sociology in the University of Oxford. A formative influence on the sociology of religion in Britain, he made extensive contributions to the subject internationally, especially in the areas of sectarian religion and secularization. Daisaku Ikeda (1928-) is the President of Soka Gakkai International, a lay Buddhist organisation with some eleven ... Read more
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