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Religion as culture
Author(s) -
Aranoff Deena
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12593
Subject(s) - harmony (color) , torch , absolute (philosophy) , aesthetics , value (mathematics) , civil religion , sociology , environmental ethics , religious studies , epistemology , law , philosophy , political science , art , engineering , politics , computer science , visual arts , mechanical engineering , machine learning , welding
When we understand religion as culture , we can value religion as a many‐thousand year expression of lived human experience with accumulated wisdom. If we ask religion to carry the torch of civil harmony into the election battles, however, religious leaders will have to give up one quite precious thing, namely, the claim to absolute and unchanging truth.