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Losing Your Religion: Ernest Becker & the Questionable Idea of the Maturity of Secularity | living through death

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Ernest Becker’s work makes conventional notions of growth and maturity problematic as they pertain to religion and culture. It is commonly assumed that “outgrowing one’s religion” and entering into…

Losing Your Religion: Ernest Becker & the Questionable Idea of the Maturity of Secularity | living through death living through death "The only way that you can accept life is if you can accept death.” –Leo Buscaglia Losing Your Religion: Ernest Becker & the Questionable Idea of the Maturity of Secularity with 8 comments This post is a continuation of a series in which I make use of the blogosphere to motivate my dissertation free-writing. For context, read the short summary of my work here . There you will also find a table of contents with links to all the posts in this series. Since it&#821

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