Landscapes of the Soul: The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life
Douglas V. Porpora
Abstract
This book is at once both a work of sociology and a work of ethical and religious philosophy. As a work of sociology, it contributes to the ongoing debate over secularization by documenting an alienation from the sacred at the level of emotion. Shows that even many religious Americans are emotionally estranged from the God they say they believe in, from any larger moral purpose, from the very meaning of life itself. As a work of moral and religious philosophy within a broad communitarian tradition, it calls our attention from moral procedure to moral purpose or moral idealism. Argues that mora ... More
Keywords: communitarian, emotion, God, identity, meaning of life, moral idealism, moral purpose, reenchantment, resacralization, secularization, truth
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195134919 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0195134915.001.0001 |
