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Book SynopsisAcross the Secular Abyss explains the cultural chasm we currently face, with a traditional religion-based society behind us, and an as-yet unknown secular society ahead. For over a century, scholars, social scientists, and policy makers have debated the apparent erosion of religious faith and wondered whether Western Civilization was turning its back on religion. Today, the issue has reached a crisis point. In the U.S., a new battle between faith and science has erupted within educational institutions, as political polarization progressively divides the country along religious lines. After a century-long truce in which religion and science implicitly agreed to leave each other alone, science is again invading the territory of religion, most obviously in cognitive science that is debunking religious notions of the human soul, and in the broad convergence of many branches of science into one that leaves few gaps where supernatural beliefs could survive. Religion, for its part, is resist
Trade ReviewRecommended. * CHOICE, February 2008 *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Secularization Chapter 3. Well-Being Chapter 4. Fertility Chapter 5. Crime and Deviance Chapter 6. The New Age Chapter 7. Scientistic Religions Chapter 8. Atheism Chapter 9. Cognitive Science Chapter 10. Technological Transcendence Chapter 11. An Age of Transition Chapter 12 Appendix. Tables
