‘Unless major changes in unquestioned beliefs and religious dogma take place soon, religion is doomed to extinction and mankind to social chaos.’
In The Fallibility of Religion, David Weaver explores this statement with a commitment to creating the much-needed clarity he believes is necessary in discussing the future of religion.
Spiritual belief is, in Weaver’s view, a personal matter, not to be imposed doctrinally, and religion is a social construct with the critical role of providing structures within which communities can prosper and maintain communal values and social order. In this passionate book, Weaver asks, How is religion to survive and continue to play its all-important role in the modern, materialistic and sceptical environment prevalent in much of the world today?
Weaver argues that we need religion to survive in order to fulfil its true purpose of providing a social structure and rules for communal behaviour, but he maintains that this will only happen if the existing religious claims to infallibility and exclusivity are eliminated.
Weaver states that many millions of people who no longer believe in a spiritually ordered life are rejecting religion without recognising its intrinsic value as the guardian of our communal values and the rightful authority for the maintenance of social order. The one thing that religion is not, Weaver believes, is the owner of our spiritual beliefs.
In this passionate thesis, Weaver asks, and responds to, the question, How is religion to survive and continue to play its all-important role in the modern, materialistic and sceptical environment prevalent in much of the world today?

ISBN: 9780473511524
Author: WEAVER, DAVID
Available stock: 1
Price: $29.99
Title: Fallibility of Religion The