Being Human: Perspectives on Meaning and Interpretation (Essays in Religion, Culture and Personality), 2nd ed.
Author: John H. Morgan
Page count: 217
Year: 2006
Publisher: Cloverdale Books
Table of Contents
Introduction..............i
CHAPTER ONE
From Human Being to Being Human: The Creative Dialectic in Rabbi Heschel's Thought.............1
CHAPTER TWO
Religion and Culture as Meaning Systems: A Dialogue Between Geertz and Tillich.............17
CHAPTER THREE
Finding Meaning in Relationship: A Study in Symbolic Interaction.............35
CHAPTER FOUR
Ideas and Behavior in Experiential Interaction: An Essay in Phenomenological Sociology.............69
CHAPTER FIVE
Theology and Symbol: An Anthropological Approach.............93
CHAPTER SIX
The Meaning-Seeking Animal: The Anthropology of Clifford Geertz.............107
CHAPTER SEVEN
Personal Meaning as Therapy: The Interpretive Hermeneutic of Viktor Frankl.............117
CHAPTER EIGHT
From Pleasure to Reality: Freud on the Purpose of Life.............127
CHAPTER NINE
Man Makes Himself: The Existentialist Mandate of Jean-Paul Sartre.............139
CHAPTER TEN
Faith in the Future: The Present Agenda for the Planet.............151
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Beyond Hegel and Marx: The Social Construction of Reality in the Work of Karl Mannheim.............171
CHAPTER TWELVE
Meaning as Hermeneutics: The Deep Structure of Cultural Interpretation.............203
About the Author.............217
