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History, religion, and American democracy / edited with a new introduction by Maurice Wohlgelernter.

Contributor(s): Wohlgelernter, Maurice
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, 1993Description: lxx, 351 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1560006714Uniform titles: History, religion, and spiritual democracy. Subject(s): Religion -- Philosophy | Philosophy, American | Political science | Judaism | Jewish philosophy | Blau, Joseph L. (Joseph Leon), 1909-1986DDC classification: 191 LOC classification: BL51 | .H58 1993Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Four ways of religion and philosophy / Maurice Wohlgelernter -- John Dewey: the evolution of a faith / Steven C. Rockefeller -- "The God of our children": the humanist reconstruction of God / Raymond F. Bulman -- The supernatural in the naturalists / William M. Shea -- The esthetic, the religious, and the natural / James A. Martin, Jr. -- Dating a Mishnah-tractate: the case of Tamid / Jacob Neusner -- The creator and the computer / David R. Blumenthal -- Martin Buber and the no-self perspective / Edith Wyschogrod -- Asa Mahan and the Oberlin philosophy / Edward H. Madden -- Spires of influence: the importance of Emerson for classical American philosophy / John J. McDermott -- Santayana and the idea of reason / Douglas Greenlee -- The development of William James's epistemological realism / Peter H. Hare and Chandana Chakrabarti -- The new censors of science / Paul Kurtz -- Equality and excellence in the democratic ideal / David L. Norton -- Toward a post-Enlightenment doctrine of human rights / Roger L. Shinn -- Schooling and the search for a usable politics / Howard B. Radest.

Originally published: History, religion, and spiritual democracy. New York : Columbia University Press, 1980. With new introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Four ways of religion and philosophy / Maurice Wohlgelernter -- John Dewey: the evolution of a faith / Steven C. Rockefeller -- "The God of our children": the humanist reconstruction of God / Raymond F. Bulman -- The supernatural in the naturalists / William M. Shea -- The esthetic, the religious, and the natural / James A. Martin, Jr. -- Dating a Mishnah-tractate: the case of Tamid / Jacob Neusner -- The creator and the computer / David R. Blumenthal -- Martin Buber and the no-self perspective / Edith Wyschogrod -- Asa Mahan and the Oberlin philosophy / Edward H. Madden -- Spires of influence: the importance of Emerson for classical American philosophy / John J. McDermott -- Santayana and the idea of reason / Douglas Greenlee -- The development of William James's epistemological realism / Peter H. Hare and Chandana Chakrabarti -- The new censors of science / Paul Kurtz -- Equality and excellence in the democratic ideal / David L. Norton -- Toward a post-Enlightenment doctrine of human rights / Roger L. Shinn -- Schooling and the search for a usable politics / Howard B. Radest.

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