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Myth-Making and Religious Extremism and Their Roots in Crises

By: Arthur G. Neal,Helen Youngelson-Neal

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Myth-Making and Religious Extremism and Their Roots in Crises

By: Arthur G. Neal,Helen Youngelson-Neal

According to sociologist C. Wright Mills, we do not live in a world of solid fact but in a world permeated by culture, constructed by humans through communication with each other. Myth-making shapes our lives, beliefs and behavior. Collective myths become plausible explanations for events past and future as each new generation constructs reality anew to make sense of the human condition. Providing a sociological and multicultural analysis, this book examines myth-making in the today's world amid religious extremism and terrorism. The authors discuss the imperative of myth in comprehending illness, sexuality, death and human relationships to the environment and other animals.

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McFarland

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1476621314

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9781476621319

Core Values in American Life

Living with Contradictions

By: Arthur G. Neal,Helen Youngelson-Neal

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Core Values in American Life

Living with Contradictions

By: Arthur G. Neal,Helen Youngelson-Neal

What values do Americans hold dear? What happens when real-world situations cause those values to conflict? To better understand the intellectual map of how American society works, Arthur G. Neal and Helen Youngelson-Neal analyze values prominent in American word and deed. These values appear in our nation’s formal documents—rights and privileges prominently emphasized in the US Constitution and inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. They have shaped the historical destiny and, indeed, include those values most extensively propagated by the general population. Using these criteria, the authors identify individualism, the pursuit of happiness, freedom, consumerism, materialism, equality of opportunity, technology, mastery of the environment, quality of marriage, and national unity as the core American values. Core values provide the raw materials for the construction of contemporary society as a moral community, wherever that community is located. Such values are clusters of ideas that are central to self-identities; they generate a sense of collective belonging and membership. As such, core values define the existing social order and advance a set of ideas for depicting a desirable future. The analysis presented here helps us understand contemporary conflicts inherent in the American value system and the problems confronted by Americans as they try to live within the limitations and contradictions of value systems.

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1412854423

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Core Values in American Life

Living with Contradictions

By: Arthur G. Neal,Helen Youngelson-Neal

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Living with Contradictions

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Myth-Making and Religious Extremism and Their Roots in Crises

Myth-Making and Religious Extremism and Their Roots in Crises

Core Values in American Life

Core Values in American Life

Core Values in American Life

Core Values in American Life

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