Religion and the Social Sciences
Conversations with Robert Bellah and Christian Smith
edited by R. R. Reno and Barbara McClay
More often than not it’s a class in the social science that challenges the faith of students, not a class in biology. Does critical understanding of our religious traditions, institutions, and convictions undercut them? Or can a modern social scientific approach deepen faith commitments, making us full participants in today’s intellectual culture? In these conversations with eminent sociologists Robert Bellah and Christian Smith, leading scholars probe the religious potential of modern social science—and its theological limits.
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