Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious
by David Dark
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Publication
Dec 13, 2022
Format
Paperback/Softback
Illustrated
No
Price
18.99
Dimensions
5.5 x 7.5 in
ISBN
9781506481661
Pages
215
Age
Adult 18+
Category
General Nonfiction
Rights Sold
š World Wide Rights Available
Description
Awards & Endorsements
Kaya Oakes, author of The Defiant Middle and faculty member in the College Writing Programs at University of California, Berkeley
Author(s)
David Dark
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| Publisher | Augsburg Fortress |
| Publication | Dec 13, 2022 |
| Format | Paperback/Softback |
| ISBN | 9781506481661 |
| Pages | 215 |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 7.5 in |
| Age | Adult 18+ |
| Price | $18.99 |
Categories
General Nonfiction
BISAC Codes
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
RELIGION / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious
by David Dark
We can't just be done with religion, argues David Dark. The fact of religion is the fact of us. Religion is the witness of everything we're up to--for better or worse.
David Dark is one of today's most respected thinkers, public intellectuals, and cultural critics at the intersection of faith and culture. Since its original release, Dark's Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious has become essential reading for those engaged in the conversation on religion in contemporary American society. Now, Dark returns to his classic text and offers us a revised, expanded, and reframed edition that reflects a more expansive understanding, employs inclusive language, and tackles the most pressing issues of the day.
With the same keen powers of cultural observation, candor, and wit his readers have come to know and love, Dark weaves in current themes around the pandemic and vaccine responses, Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements, Critical Race Theory, and more. By looking intentionally at our weird religious background (we all have one), he helps us acknowledge the content of our everyday existence--the good, the bad, and the glaringly inconsistent. When we make peace with the idea of being religious, we can more practically envision an undivided life.
Reviews, Awards & Endorsements
Kaya Oakes, author of The Defiant Middle and faculty member in the College Writing Programs at University of California, Berkeley
"David Dark reimagines being religious as a collective action open to all and demonstrates that in a time skeptical of religion, it can be a source of meaningful work and life-giving pleasure and joyāand even of change."
Author
David Dark
David Dark is the critically acclaimed author of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, Everyday Apocalypse, and The Gospel According to America. He teaches at the Tennessee Prison for Women and Belmont University. He has had articles published in Pitchfork, Killing the Buddha, Books and Culture, and Christian Century, among others. A frequent speaker, Dark has also appeared on C-SPAN's Book-TV and in the award-winning documentaries, Marketing the Message and American Jesus. He lives with his singer-songwriter wife, Sarah Masen, and their three children in Nashville.
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