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Challenging Religious Studies
The Wealth, Wellbeing and Inequalities of Nations
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Pub Date
31 Oct 2014
| Archive Date
11 Nov 2015
Description
Challenging Religious Studies represents a breakthrough in our understanding and development of the practices, ethics and theories of religious studies through engagement with the world of daily life and its breath-taking transformation since 1800, as revealed particularly in living standards, life expectancy and subjective wellbeing.
Together with the equally disturbing growth of inequalities between and within nations, this constitutes the profound paradox of development. What is of particular interest is the book’s rigorous treatment of the question why religion is better at delivering greater subjective wellbeing and how it does so.
To build such arguments always involves engaging with key related disciplines, experiences and practices, including economics, psychology, sociology and economic history. But it will also increasingly offer religion the opportunity to participate in such developments but always and increasingly through collaboration with other such disciplines and experiences, and always with the objective of furthering the greater wellbeing of all people in and through their environments.
Challenging Religious Studies represents a breakthrough in our understanding and development of the practices, ethics and theories of religious studies through engagement with the world of daily life...
Description
Challenging Religious Studies represents a breakthrough in our understanding and development of the practices, ethics and theories of religious studies through engagement with the world of daily life and its breath-taking transformation since 1800, as revealed particularly in living standards, life expectancy and subjective wellbeing.
Together with the equally disturbing growth of inequalities between and within nations, this constitutes the profound paradox of development. What is of particular interest is the book’s rigorous treatment of the question why religion is better at delivering greater subjective wellbeing and how it does so.
To build such arguments always involves engaging with key related disciplines, experiences and practices, including economics, psychology, sociology and economic history. But it will also increasingly offer religion the opportunity to participate in such developments but always and increasingly through collaboration with other such disciplines and experiences, and always with the objective of furthering the greater wellbeing of all people in and through their environments.
A Note From the Publisher
• A ground-breaking monograph emerging from one of the most significant research projects in recent years.
• John Atherton maps new directions for the future of Religious Studies.
• A ground-breaking monograph emerging from one of the most significant research projects in recent years.
• John Atherton maps new directions for the future of Religious Studies.
Advance Praise
This is an impressive volume on the relationship between economics and Christianity. John Atherton gives a clear image of the economic development towards increased wellbeing and growing inequalities. He demonstrates convincingly the importance of religion to subjective wellbeing, and the role of Christianity in progressive economic and political change. His thorough analysis shows the importance of a multidisciplinary collaboration between religious studies, sociology, psychology and economics. This means a serious challenge to religious studies. -- Carl-Henric Grenholm, Uppsala University, Sweden
This is an impressive volume on the relationship between economics and Christianity. John Atherton gives a clear image of the economic development towards increased wellbeing and growing...
Advance Praise
This is an impressive volume on the relationship between economics and Christianity. John Atherton gives a clear image of the economic development towards increased wellbeing and growing inequalities. He demonstrates convincingly the importance of religion to subjective wellbeing, and the role of Christianity in progressive economic and political change. His thorough analysis shows the importance of a multidisciplinary collaboration between religious studies, sociology, psychology and economics. This means a serious challenge to religious studies. -- Carl-Henric Grenholm, Uppsala University, Sweden
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| ISBN |
9780334046493 |
| PRICE |
£43.00 (GBP)
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9780334046493 |
| PRICE |
£43.00 (GBP)
|
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