{"product_id":"enquiries-into-religion-and-culture-christopher-dawson-9780813215433","title":"Enquiries Into Religion and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essays presented in this volume are among the most wide-ranging, intellectually rich, and diverse of Christopher Dawson's reflections on the relations of faith and culture. In them, he explores the contact between the spiritual life of the individual and the social and economic organization of modern culture. His focus ranges from the passing of industrialism to the Catholic understanding of the human person, to Islamic mysticism, to a Christian account of sexuality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawson argues that modern Western culture is unique in its tendency to ignore its spiritual roots and its once close contact with nature and tradition, and to substitute for them an impersonal economic and materialist organization of mass society. In these essays, he warns against the increasingly secular preoccupations of modern sociological accounts of European culture and insists that they require the supplement and corrective of theology and philosophy. But he is equally insistent on the dangers of a false spiritualism that ignores emerging sociological insights. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003cp\u003eWidely praised as one of the most important Catholic historians of the twentieth century, Christopher Dawson, in all of his writings, masterfully brings various disciplinary perspectives and historical sources into a complex unity of expression and applies them to concrete conditions of modern society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Dawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813215439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813215433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catholic University of America Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Dawson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086907781375,"sku":"9780813215433","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d26fbcd5-f727-4c28-8f9c-94ee78f88fe1.jpg?v=1769097260","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enquiries-into-religion-and-culture-christopher-dawson-9780813215433","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}