Top corner of free front endpaper has been cut, otherwise this is a nice, near fine copy in a near fine to fine mylar protected DJ. A presentation copy. The book is inscribed and signed by the author "To Bob Bellah - With deep appreciation for your own work" and is dated in 1992. Robert N. Bellah is a noted author and professor. Slight trace of wear to DJ and DJ edges, 8vo., 458 pages. 0.0 0.0 0.0.

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Title: The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Free Press
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0029131715
ISBN 13: 9780029131718
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Inscribed by Author

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Analyzes the cause of the current "moral malaise" and shows how to move beyond today's cultural wars through revitalized commitment to religion

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Former executive director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, a project that celebrates the right to religious liberty embodied in the U.S. Constitution, Guinness ( The Gravedigger File ) tries to cover a wide range of material as he examines "transformations and corruptions in America's . . . moral and cultural order" and suggests, not very convincingly, that the American people might be redeemed by faith. America lacks an identity, he argues as he surveys the cultural changes of the last 40 years. Rejecting both the fundamentalist desire to establish religion officially in public life and the secular humanist wish to exclude it altogether, he suggests compromising on "a civil public square in which citizens of all faiths, or none, are free to enter and engage one another in the continuing democratic discourse." While Guinness offers some useful insights, they are obscured by his sloppy prose style: bloated with quotes and shallow analysis (such as the wholesale condemnation of "non-liberal ideologies" in U.S. universities), the book reads like an intellectual Megatrends .
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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