Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective

Modern Culture from a Comparative PerspectiveA distinguished historian of religion explores the contemporary culture of the Western world. As an historian of religion, Wilfred Cantwell Smith has investigated the way religious traditions define themselves, the nature of faith over the centuries, and the scriptures that have offered anticipations of eternity. In this book he turns to modern culture and finds that its past has been defined, not only by traditions that are normally called religious,

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