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Purpose: The purpose of the book A Rumor of Angels

by Peter L. Berger is to shed some light to the

reader on the author’s views and beliefs of

The author starts the book by defining the

term supernatural and how it is set apart from the

natural world. The definition of the term

supernatural given in the book is: a fundamental

category of religion, a belief that there is

another reality, one of ultimate significance to

man, that ties into everyday life. When we as

humans look at supernatural we consider the modern

science and philosophy of the issue. We as a

society seem to function fine without supernatural

in our day to day lives. The author goes in to

detail about religion and church. He finds that

people do not go to church with the burning desire

for salvation from sin as many people think. There

are supernatural elements to religion that are less

liquidated and where traditional language is

transferred from one worldly referents to another.

Large religious groups are more inclined

about them. I thought overall the book was very

begins with facts of human experience. The author

interesting and I would recommend that everyone

ludic of playful can be found in almost any

discussed in this book that related to sociology

theology. The author uses the term “inductive

limited. This involves a bargaining process, in

Sociology brings about a challenge to

upon them. Berger did many studies which he

The author goes into detail about anthropology

relationship between conservative and liberal

Approximate Word count = 705
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Miscellaneous

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