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The search for meaning : Americans talk about what they believe and why / Phillip L. Berman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books, 1990.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 451 p. : ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0345331710
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200/.973 20
Contents:
Contents:
Book One -- Knockin' bark off trees -- Problems of evil -- War -- The color line -- Outcasts -- Survivors -- Book Two -- Hedonic calculus -- Young folks -- The nihilist, the hooker, and the chessman -- Earthly delights -- The muse -- In the public eye -- Home on the range -- Book Three -- True believers -- Investments of faith -- Visiting spirits -- Men of the cloth -- Alternative altars -- Motherhood.
Summary: "What do Americans, as a people, believe in? What are the experiences that have transformed our lives? How does faith--in God, in human goodness, in politics, progress, money, or pleasure--illuminate our actions? These are the questions that Phillip L. Berman, editor of The Courage of Conviction, asked when he set off on a four-year, 35,000-mile odyssey to chronical America's moral imagination. The result of his quest is The Search for Meaning. This engrossing and radiantly insightful book is the first and only oral history of the relilgious and philosophical belilefs of contemporary Americans." - Publisher's description
Item type: Books
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks Books BL 2525 .B476 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA014052 Available AUA014052

Contents:

Book One --
Knockin' bark off trees --
Problems of evil --
War --
The color line --
Outcasts --
Survivors --
Book Two --
Hedonic calculus --
Young folks --
The nihilist, the hooker, and the chessman --
Earthly delights --
The muse --
In the public eye --
Home on the range --
Book Three --
True believers --
Investments of faith --
Visiting spirits --
Men of the cloth --
Alternative altars --
Motherhood.


"What do Americans, as a people, believe in? What are the experiences that have transformed our lives? How does faith--in God, in human goodness, in politics, progress, money, or pleasure--illuminate our actions? These are the questions that Phillip L. Berman, editor of The Courage of Conviction, asked when he set off on a four-year, 35,000-mile odyssey to chronical America's moral imagination. The result of his quest is The Search for Meaning. This engrossing and radiantly insightful book is the first and only oral history of the relilgious and philosophical belilefs of contemporary Americans." - Publisher's description