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How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization Audiobook, by Mary Eberstadt Play Audiobook Sample

How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization Audiobook

How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization Audiobook, by Mary Eberstadt Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Nan McNamara Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705228401

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

47:05 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

11:49 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

30:45 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

In this magisterial work, leading cultural critic Mary Eberstadt delivers a powerful new theory about the decline of religion in the Western world. The conventional wisdom is that the West first experienced religious decline, followed by the decline of the family. Eberstadt turns this standard account on its head. Marshalling an impressive array of research, from fascinating historical data on family decline in pre-Revolutionary France to contemporary popular culture both in the United States and Europe, Eberstadt shows that the reverse has also been true: the undermining of the family has further undermined Christianity itself.

Drawing on sociology, history, demography, theology, literature, and many other sources, Eberstadt shows that family decline and religious decline have gone hand in hand in the Western world in a way that has not been understood before—that they are, as she puts it in a striking new image summarizing the book's thesis, "the double helix of society, each dependent on the strength of the other for successful reproduction."

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About Mary Eberstadt

Mary Eberstadt is the author of several influential books, including How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization; Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution; and Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes. She is also editor of the anthology Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys. She lives in Washington, DC.

About Nan McNamara

Michael Butler Murray is an audiobook narrator as well as an actor and producer known for Jersey Boys, Frontera, The Day of the Grackle, and iCarly: iGo to Japan.