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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Publication date
December 5, 2017
Pages
381
Binding
Paperback
ISBN-13
9781633883239
ISBN-10
163388323X
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9.10 in.
Original list price
$19.00
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Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia | Beyond the Crusades: Christianity's Lies, Laws and Legacy | Evidence Considered: A Response To Evidence For God | The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World | A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes | Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress | The Devil You Know
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this examination of religion's influence on society, an anthropologist critiques fundamentalism and all mindsets based on rigid cultural certainties. The author argues that the future can only be safeguarded by a global humanistic outlook that recognizes and respects differing cultural perspectives and endorses the use of critical reason and empiricism. Houk coins the term "culturalism" to describe dogmatic viewpoints governed by culture-specific values and preconceived notions. Culturalism gives rise not only to fundamentalism in religion but also stereotypes about race, gender, and sexual orientation.
Turning specifically to Christian fundamentalism, the author analyzes the many weaknesses of what he calls a faith-based epistemology, particularly as such thinking is displayed in young-earth creationism, the reliance on revelation and subjective experiences as a source of religious knowledge, and the reverence accorded the Bible despite its obvious flaws. As he points out, the problem with such cultural knowledge generally is that it is non-falsifiable and ultimately has no lasting value in contrast to the data-based and falsifiable knowledge produced by science, which continues to prove its worth as a reliable source of accurate information.
Concluding that there is no future to the fundamentalist mindset in a diverse world where religion often exacerbates conflicts, he makes a strong case for reason and mutual tolerance.
Turning specifically to Christian fundamentalism, the author analyzes the many weaknesses of what he calls a faith-based epistemology, particularly as such thinking is displayed in young-earth creationism, the reliance on revelation and subjective experiences as a source of religious knowledge, and the reverence accorded the Bible despite its obvious flaws. As he points out, the problem with such cultural knowledge generally is that it is non-falsifiable and ultimately has no lasting value in contrast to the data-based and falsifiable knowledge produced by science, which continues to prove its worth as a reliable source of accurate information.
Concluding that there is no future to the fundamentalist mindset in a diverse world where religion often exacerbates conflicts, he makes a strong case for reason and mutual tolerance.
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