Barron

Question 0

What does Barron mean by “problems with modernity”

Answer 0

Modernity tends to reject traditional authority

Question 1

What is Barron’s thesis?

Answer 1

Religion in western context has become privatized and internalized. Beliefs and morals need to be revived by attention to communal practices, habitual activities from community that shape how we see the world.

Question 2

Name 3 characteristics of modern thought that Barron and Portier question.

Answer 2

Individualism
Reason
Anti-traditionalism

Question 3

What does Barron mean when he says faith should be more like an apprenticeship?

Answer 3

He believes that just at apprentice live their lives following, living with, and copying their mentors, so should people of faith follow their religions.

Question 4

What attitude toward religion does Andy Smith criticize?

Answer 4

Culture appropriation.
Popularization of Indian culture
The profit made off of spirituality