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Across the secular abyss : from faith to wisdom

Draws upon the social-scientific evidence to understand profound religious changes occurring in advanced societies. This book finds that the positive functions of religion have been exaggerated, are declining, and are replaceable by benefits from new Transhumanist technologies.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, ©2007
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780739116784, 0739116789
132582653
Secularization
Well-being
Fertility
Crime and deviance
The New Age
Scientistic religions
Atheism
Cognitive science
Technological transcendence
An age of transition