num_pages: 192
description: This book offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the full range of worldviews, showing how, whether religious or secular, they define the human values that drive the engines of both continuity and change worldwide. It shows readers the dynamics of each tradition, and emphasizes that although the various traditions may all share similar aspects, they each assign varying levels of importance to specific areas. Explores the major religious traditions and secular ideologies (Marxism, nationalisms, scientific humanism) from six experiential/emotional; narrative/mythic; doctrinal/philosophical; ethical/legal; ritual/practical; and social/organizational. For anyone interested in comparative worldviews, religious and secular.
language: English
title: Worldviews: Cross Cultural Explorations of Human Beliefs
titlecomplete: Worldviews: Cross Cultural Explorations of Human Beliefs
genres: Nonfiction, Textbooks, Philosophy, Religion
ratings_count: 68
publisher: Prentice Hall