{"product_id":"plain-sense-of-things-ppr-the-fate-of-religion-in-an-age-of-normal-nihilism-9780271016788","title":"Plain Sense of Things - Ppr.: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James C. Edwards\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Religious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat could it mean to be religious in a world where religion no longer retains its former authority? Posing this question for his fellow Western intellectuals who inhabit just such a world, James C. Edwards investigates the loss of religion's traditional power in a culture characterized by what he calls \"normal nihilism\"--a situation in which one's commitment to a particular set of values is all one really has, and in which traditional religion is only a means of interpretation used to preserve what one most cares about. Recognizing the important historical role of religion in making us the people we are, he seeks to establish a viable understanding of religion without traditional beliefs and within the context of contemporary skepticism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Plain Sense of Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a book more interested in the power of religion that in its truth and in what happens to that power when the claims to truth slacken their grip.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892427997335,"sku":"9780271016788","price":4543.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780271016788.webp?v=1781186945","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/plain-sense-of-things-ppr-the-fate-of-religion-in-an-age-of-normal-nihilism-9780271016788","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}