Rethinking Materialism Eleanor Lutman The essays give particular attention

The essays give particular attention to how relevant ideas

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leading scholars address the questions posed by this period of historic change in the Middle East and North Africa

Nearly twenty years later

and their imprint—at times memorialized in physical representations

Rethinking Materialism Eleanor Lutman The essays give particular attentionThis collection of essays by ten of the nation's prominent social scientists and theologians offers serious commentary on our culture's obsession with material goods and examines the uneasy relation of materialism to religion. The contributors assess the ways in which materialism has been understood in recent analyses of American character, how the economy shapes our understandings of ourselves, the ways in which religious thought is being reshaped by