Competition in Religious Life
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press, CCSR
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2006
- Category
- Religious, Comparative Religion, Philosophy
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780889206694
- Publish Date
- Jan 2006
- List Price
- $32.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889209893
- Publish Date
- Dec 1989
- List Price
- $34.99
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Description
In his latest work on the social consequences of religious commitment, Jay Newman reveals in clear and concise fashion the extent to which competitiveness is an essential feature of religious life. His assessment charts various classical strategies that have been proposed for either eliminating such competitiveness or directing it into appropriate channels. After a detailed philosophical analysis of the nature and value of competition, the author examines competition between denominations and within denominations, and considers religious competition in some of its less obvious forms.
In the process of evaluating the methods for curbing religious competition advocated by such thinkers as Spinoza and Lessing, as well as by modern ecumenists, the author points the way to a general approach to religious competition that minimizes destructive religious conflicts without ignoring the positive value of religious competition.
About the author
Jay Newman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. Among his publications are Foundations of Religious Tolerance and numerous studies of the philosophical and theological writings of John Henry Newman.