Against the World for the World: The Hartford Appeal and the Future of American Religion

by Peter L. Berger, Richard John Neuhaus

Book by Berger, Peter L., Neuhaus, Richard John

164 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1976

About the author

Peter L. Berger was an internationally renowned sociologist, and the founder of Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. He was born in Vienna and came to the U.S. in his late teens. He had a master's degree and a doctorate from the New School for Social Research in New York. After two years in the United States Army, he taught at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina before going to the Hartford Seminary Foundation as an Assistant Professor in Social Ethics.

In 1992, Peter Berger was awarded the Manes Sperber Prize, presented by the Austrian government for significant contributions to culture. He was the author of many books, among them The Social Construction of Reality, The Homeless Mind, and Questions of Faith.

Reviews

[Titus Hjelm · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked up this book because Peter Berger's name was on the cover. His chapter does the usual combination of sociology and theology, which is mildly interesting, but the rest is a waste of time for social scientists. It's an interesting primary document about the state of theology (and fear of secularisation) in the US in the early 1970s, but not much more.