In Praise Of Doubt

How To Have Convictions Without Becoming A Fanatic

BY PETER BERGER, ANTON ZIJDERVELD

Brief Description:
As a culture and as individuals, we find it much easier to articulate what we are against than what we are for. In this book the authors show how we can have confidence in our convictions - in such ideals as democracy, human rights, equality under the law etc - without succumbing to the radical doubts of relativism and the certainties of fundamentalism. With new lenses for seeing the influence of modernism, relativism and fundamentalism they explore the roles of humor, doubt and social norms that let us have convictions without grasping them so tightly that we become fanatics.

HarperOne 2009 178 PP. Cloth

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