Globalization, Religion & Culture (Laing Lectures 2002)

Speaker(s): Peter Berger
Date: 2002
Length: 4:25:19
Product ID: RGDL3221S

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This three-part lecture series will examine how the current phenomenon of global pluralism impacts culture and religion. One of the most interesting writers on religion and society, Berger has played a key role in issues of development, public policy and the role of religious belief in the modern world. Respondents to the three lectures are Loren Wilkinson, Craig Gay and Paul Helm of Regent College. Lectures include:

  • Globalization and Culture (Response by Loren Wilkinson)
  • Globalization and Religion (Response by Craig Gay)
  • Theological Implications of Globalization (Response by Paul Helm)

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Peter Berger is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology, as well as Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture and Director of the Institute on Religion and World Affairs at Boston University. He is author of many books, including Dialogue Between Religious Traditions in an Age of Relativity, Facing Up to Modernity: Excursions in Society, Politics and Religion, and The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (with Thomas Luckmann).

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