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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

Bloomsbury Reference, 2007

"It may well be that too many books are published, but by good fortune, not all must be read.... A survivor's guide to life in the chattering classes...evidently much in need." --New York Times

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Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things

Princeton Press, 2009

The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious experience in the study of religion, an approach that effectively isolated the study of religion...

The Fourth Secularisation: Autonomy of Individual Lifestyles (Routledge Focus on Religion)

Routledge, 2019

This book examines recent forms of secularisation to demonstrate that we are now witnessing a “fourth secularisation”: the autonomy of lifestyles. After introducing two initial secularising movements, from mythos to Logos and from Logos to Christianity, the book sets out how from Max Weber...