Title: Being human : perspectives on meaning and interpretation : essays in religion, culture, and personality /
Authors: Morgan, John H. 1945-
Publisher: Cloverdale Books,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Theological anthropology; Human beings.
Contents: Introduction -- From human being to being human : the creative dialectic in Rabbi Heschel's thought -- Religion and culture as meaning systems : a dialogue between Geertz and Tillich -- Finding meaning in relationship : a study in symbolic interaction -- Ideas and behavior in experiential interaction : an essay in phenomenological sociology -- Theology and symbol : an anthropological approach -- The meaning-seeking animal : the anthropology of Clifford Geertz -- Personal meaning as therapy : the interpretive hermeneutic of Victor Frankl -- From pleasure to reality : Freud on the purpose of life -- Man makes himself : the existentialist mandate of Jean-Paul Sartre -- Faith in the future : the present agenda for the planet -- Beyond Hegel and Marx : the social construction of reality in the work -- Of Karl Mannheim -- Meaning as hermeneutics : the deep structure of cultural interpretation.