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Dec 23, 2021 · Lyman and Scott’s (1970) ‘sociology of the absurd’ imports into sociology the existentialist theme of the absurdity of life in a meaningless universe, where all meaning has to be constantly elaborated by participants in social interactions. Persons’ definitions of situations are understood as radically open and negotiated, not predefined.
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Existentialism is the study of existence. If you take existence to be everything that exists — such as chairs and tables, people and llamas — all philosophy, science, and religion would seem to have the same subject. But existentialism isn’t the study of everything that exists; it’s the study of exis-tence itself — the study of what ...
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Jan 20, 2018 · However, if meaning in life is assumed to be given or bestowed on persons from a transcendent source, then this assumption has a substantial impact on investigating an atheistic worldview. Under such an assumption, it would be technically true to suggest that atheists have less meaning in their lives than theists, but this is only because the ...
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6 days ago · Existential sociology claims to study human beings in their natural settings and in all their complexities, most importantly incorporating their brute bodies and feelings into the picture, two areas that are often neglected elsewhere in sociology. To date very few sociologists have followed in this tradition, and it has many critics who accuse ...
This introduction outlines the vision and scope of The Oxford Handbook of Atheism. While, historically speaking, the academic study of atheism has not always and everywhere received the attention it deserves, that does not mean that there is not already a significant body of scholarship on the subject. In particular, a great deal of new and ...
OF JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. XX AILABLE now in English is the literature providing access to the literary, social, religious, and philosophical movement known as. existentialism. Kierkegaard, father of the movement, has been trans-. lated, and representative samples of his writing have been collected in a fine anthology.
12 Ambiguous Atheism: The Impact of Political Changes on the Meaning and Reception of Atheism in Estonia 233 Atko Remmel 13 Secularity, Non-religiosity, Atheism: Boundaries between Religion and Its Other 251 Monika Wohlrab-Sahr Postface 272 Roberto Cipriani Index 281
