TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sommerville,C.John
TI  - Religion in the national agenda: what we mean by religious, spiritual, secular 
SN  - 9781602581630 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - BL 51 .S621 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Waco, Tex.
PB  - Baylor University Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Religion and politics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-234) and index; Growing confusion over religion and spirituality -- Defining "religious" and "religion" -- Why religion and education challenge each other -- Religion and the law -- Religion and political variety -- Science and reductionism -- Sciences of human life -- Religion and theologies at odds -- What we mean by secular
N2  - C. John Sommerville examines common linguistic uses of the terms "religion," "religious," "spiritual," and "secular" in order to discern the proper use of these words in contemporary American culture. For example, he finds that, in English, "religion" is our word for a certain kind of response to a certain kind of power (the power and the response both being beyond anything else in our experience). Sommerville then redeploys these definitions to examine the ways that institutions in the fields of education, science, law, politics and religion are affected-often in unexpected ways-by a shared set of assumptions about what these words mean. --from publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0814/2008011908.html
ER  -