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| Introduction | 3 | |
| 1 | Idols, Idolatry, and Unnecessary Suffering | 13 |
| 2 | Starting on the Path to Secularity: The Agony of the Possible | 45 |
| 3 | Heroes, Charismatic Figures, and Celebrities as Cultural Idols | 62 |
| 4 | Brotherhoods, Sisterhoods, and Secularization: Creativity, Secularity, and the Creation of Space for the Present Generation | 89 |
| 5 | Toward a Theory of a Society without Idols: From Civil Religion to Public Religiosity | 110 |
| 6 | Stifling the Sociological Imagination | 133 |
| 7 | Ambiguity, Controversy, and the Limits of Language as the Bearer of the Sacred | 143 |
| 8 | Beyond Idolatry: Religionless Christianity | 159 |
| Notes | 181 | |
| Bibliography | 183 | |
| Index | 189 |
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Barry Sheppard
reviewed Beyond Idols: The Shape of a Secular Society on August 25, 2008
Beyond Idols: The Shape of a Secular Society
I have to think of Chesterton as happy nitroglycerin. This book sends your head up into the clouds while driving your feet deep into the earth. It spins you dizzier than you've ever been, yet makes you walk straighter than you've ever walked.
Read this first in 2007, again in 2011.
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