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The Case for Religion
Keith Ward
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Description for The Case for Religion
Paperback. Long before the release of the "God Delusion", this influential and incisive book was defending religious belief on all sides from its detractors. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 405.
Long before the release of The God Delusion, Keith Ward was defending religious belief on all sides from its detractors. In the new paperback edition of this influential bestseller, Keith Ward examines the arguments put forward by a host of scientists, sociologists, and psychologists, who claim that religion is nothing more than a host of naïve superstitions and delusions.
Exploring the work of thinkers from Sigmund Freud to Emile Durkheim, Ward offers an alternative view, demonstrating religion’s key contribution to the human condition and its crucial relevance to the world today.
Long before the release of The God Delusion, Keith Ward was defending religious belief on all sides from its detractors. In the new paperback edition of this influential bestseller, Keith Ward examines the arguments put forward by a host of scientists, sociologists, and psychologists, who claim that religion is nothing more than a host of naïve superstitions and delusions.
Exploring the work of thinkers from Sigmund Freud to Emile Durkheim, Ward offers an alternative view, demonstrating religion’s key contribution to the human condition and its crucial relevance to the world today.
Product Details
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851685455
SKU
V9781851685455
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99-15
About Keith Ward
Keith Ward is Professor of Divinity, Gresham College, London and Regius Professor of Divinity, Emeritus, of the University of Oxford. He is author of the best-selling /God: A Guide for the Perplexed/, also published by Oneworld.
Reviews for The Case for Religion
" Ward lays out the case for religion with scrupulous argument and without designs."
Interreligious Insight
"a lively and interesting survey"
Reviews in Religion and Theology
"He writes so well that this rather difficult subject becomes completely gripping."
The Good Book Guide
"The book offers a simple introduction to its main features and provides a useful basic background as well as an invaluable resource for visual material, with clear photo-copiable line drawings of important features of a world faith, together with explanatory text."
Christian Marketplace
"A lively and interesting survey"
Reviews in Religion and Theology
"This book contains all the familiar War characteristics of clarity, verve and humour."
Church Times
"Ideal for serious students of religion."
Publishers Weekly
"Professor Ward will convince most reasonable readers that human nature would be poorer if the religious impulse were denied. He puts into more intelligent words than most of us could muster what it is which would be lost if we all became material atheists."
The Spectator
" This insightful book is a valuable contribution to current questions regarding the role of religion in this new millenium."
Dialogue and Alliance
"Ideal for serious students of religion."
Publishers Weekly
"Professor Ward will convince most reasonable readers that human nature would be poorer if the religious impulse were denied. He puts into more intelligent words than most of us could muster what it is which would be lost if we all became material atheists."
The Spectator
Interreligious Insight
"a lively and interesting survey"
Reviews in Religion and Theology
"He writes so well that this rather difficult subject becomes completely gripping."
The Good Book Guide
"The book offers a simple introduction to its main features and provides a useful basic background as well as an invaluable resource for visual material, with clear photo-copiable line drawings of important features of a world faith, together with explanatory text."
Christian Marketplace
"A lively and interesting survey"
Reviews in Religion and Theology
"This book contains all the familiar War characteristics of clarity, verve and humour."
Church Times
"Ideal for serious students of religion."
Publishers Weekly
"Professor Ward will convince most reasonable readers that human nature would be poorer if the religious impulse were denied. He puts into more intelligent words than most of us could muster what it is which would be lost if we all became material atheists."
The Spectator
" This insightful book is a valuable contribution to current questions regarding the role of religion in this new millenium."
Dialogue and Alliance
"Ideal for serious students of religion."
Publishers Weekly
"Professor Ward will convince most reasonable readers that human nature would be poorer if the religious impulse were denied. He puts into more intelligent words than most of us could muster what it is which would be lost if we all became material atheists."
The Spectator