Into the Headwinds: Why Belief Has Always Been Hard--And Still Is Givens Terryl
A deeper look at how people individually and collectively form religious beliefs--and what that means for faith in a society of declining religious affiliation.Secularism is increasingly a fact of…
Specifikacia Into the Headwinds: Why Belief Has Always Been Hard--And Still Is Givens Terryl
A deeper look at how people individually and collectively form religious beliefs--and what that means for faith in a society of declining religious affiliation.Secularism is increasingly a fact of life in Western society. But that doesn't necessarily mean that faith is harder than it has been before. Even in the past when organized religion enjoyed more widespread cultural acceptance, there were still obstacles to true belief. Today, the obstacles are different, but faith is still viable.Acclaimed author Terryl Givens and his son, Nathaniel Givens, combine their respective areas of expertise to offer here a fresh take on religious belief through the lens of contemporary research on psychology, cognition, and human nature. They also address two of faith's foremost modern-day antagonists: rationalism--the myth that humans can or should make the majority of their