Humanism and Religion: A Call for the Renewal of Western Culture by Jens Zimmerm

by Jens Zimmerm

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Humanism and Religion by Jens Zimmermann Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Jens Zimmermann suggests that the West can rearticulate its identity and renew its cultural purpose by recovering the humanistic ethos that originally shaped Western culture. He traces the religious roots of humanism, and combines humanism, religion and hermeneutic philosophy to re-imagine humanism for our current cultural and intellectual climate. Publisher Description The question of who we are and what vision of humanity we assume in Western culture lies at the heart of hotly debated questions on the role of religion in education, politics, and culture in general. The need for recovering a greater purpose for social practices is indicated, for example, by the rapidly increasing number of publications on the demise of higher education, lamenting the fragmentation of knowledge and university culture s surrender tomarket-driven pragmatism. The West s cultural rootlessness and lack of cultural identity are also revealed by the failure of multiculturalism to integrate religiously vibrant immigrant cultures. A main cause ofthe West s cultural malaise is the long-standing separation of reason and faith. Jens Zimmermann suggests that the West can rearticulate its identity and renew its cultural purpose by recovering the humanistic ethos that originally shaped Western culture. In tracing the religious roots of humanism from patristic theology, through the

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2012
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199697755
• Condition: Fine

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