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Modern Religions & Successful Change

R. E. S. Tanner

出版	Manak Publications, 2005
主題	Social Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Sociology of Religion
ISBN	81782704989788178270494
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Hb8oAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This study covers academic research and personal involvement in religions in Africa, Asia and Europe and showed constant change in individual and group understandings of their religion and the gap with theological thinking about what people wanted from their faiths.

This work showed that there are no simple religious paradigms whatever the type or intellectual capacity of the individuals and communities involved; they are all complex.Each religious act has a fan of meanings and each meaning has a fan of different understandings in constant flux. At the same time these acts are mingled with political, social, economic and psychological factors so that religious practices cannot be seen as a separate category of human behaviour.The importance and survival of any faith depends on the degree to which its meanings are undefined and the amount of ambiguity which this allows for believers to seek and obtain their own fulfilments.