You can do an article; his books are available at the library. Or you can buy one and xerox?
Joanna
bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
>the point about the 'literal truth' answer is that they're getting at
>those, among christians, who have been taught that it's the literal truth.
>and, whether they really believe that or not, they are willing to say this
>to the pollster. some do it b/c fear of the wrath of god has been drilled
>into them. others respond defiantly, knowing full well that there are
>theological debates of the sort that take place as the lunch table, as they
>did at work not too long ago. not a debate exactly, just a low level
>discussion of if we were raised in a religion and how we involved religion
>in our lives now (or didn't).
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>it's a way to measure the degree of adherence to what, in the sociology of
>christian religions, we used to call fundamentalism. one of the markers, at
>least a decade ago, was the response to that question: whether the bible is
>the literal word -- or something else.
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>btw, i was reading _Is Bill Cosby Right?_ at work. Someone asked me, at
>lunch, how far I'd gotten into it and if it was good. Long story short,
>we're going to lobby HR to let us have a conference room during lunch for
>book reading. Christ. They have a training seminar -- brownbag lunch --
>hosting the likes of Weight Watchers, financial investment advisers and
>stress management gurus. We figure we should host book reading groups for
>something different.
>
>I figure we'd sluth out the titles as we go along, but anyone got any good
>ideas for books that won't cause too much of a stir? Things that won't
>drive me batty, but won't be so controversial it'll cause problems... Like
>I said, I work in an environment where it's about 50% black, 25% white, the
>rest Latina/o, Native American, Asian. Need to be affordable, of course.
>
>k
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