American Religious Empiricism
Title | American Religious Empiricism PDF eBook |
Author | William Dean |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1986-07-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780887062810 |
In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbersup to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century. br>Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. This study traces the evolution of French social policy from early attempts to limit welfare to later efforts to increase social programs and influence family life. Abandoned Children illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. It shows how French social policy with respect to abandoned children sought to create an economically useful and politically neutral underclass out of a segment of the population that might otherwise have been an economic drain and a potential political threat.
American Religious Empiricism
Title | American Religious Empiricism PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Hynes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Chicago school of theology |
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Radical Interpretation in Religion
Title | Radical Interpretation in Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Frankenberry |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2002-09-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521017053 |
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Religion and Radical Empiricism
Title | Religion and Radical Empiricism PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Frankenberry |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1987-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780887064098 |
Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril. This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiry. Religion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truth-claims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria. Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of religion, the author weaves together a study of the varieties of empiricism in all its historical forms from Hume to Quine. She finds in James and Dewey; in Wieman, Meland, and Loomer of the Chicago School; in Whitehead; and in Abhidharma Buddhism constructive elements of a radically empirical approach to the controversial topic of religious experience. This work provides a strong counter-argument to critics of revisionary theism, to caricatures of philosophy as conversation, and to any collapse of the category of experience into its linguistic forms.
God, Values, and Empiricism
Title | God, Values, and Empiricism PDF eBook |
Author | Creighton Peden |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780865543607 |
The Religious Critic in American Culture
Title | The Religious Critic in American Culture PDF eBook |
Author | William D. Dean |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1994-08-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780791421147 |
This book provides a new rationale for religious criticism in American society. First, Dean shows why todays academic intellectuals are relatively indifferent to questions of meaning in America, pointing to the loss of American exceptionalism, the professionalization of the academy, and the rise of post-structural criticism. He then shows how intellectuals may reclaim a prophetic role by offering a new theory of the nature of religious thought. Tracing this theory to a twentieth-century emphasis on conventions, Dean provides a way to understand how imaginative social constructions can become active historical conventions, with real historical force. He suggests that the sacred itself begins as an imaginative construct and becomes a convention, thus working as an active, living force in history. Finally, Dean argues that religious critics must now reclaim a responsibility for shaping their societys sacred conventions.
Text and Experience
Title | Text and Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Barend Jacobus Du Toit |
Publisher | |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Chicago school of theology |
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