THE AGE OF GLOBAL DIALOGUE

Authors

  • Leonard Swidler Temple University, Philadelphia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.1996.1.3781

Abstract

Those scholars who earlier in the twentieth century with a great show of scholarship and historical/sociological analysis predicted the impending demise of Western Civilization were "dead wrong." After World War I, in 1922, Oswald Spengler wrote his widely acclaimed book, The Decline of the West 2 . After the beginning of World War II Pitirim A. Sorokin published in 1941 his likewise popular book, The Crisis of Our Age 3 . Given the massive, world-wide scale of the unprecedented destruction and horror of the world's first global war, 1914-18, and the even vastly greater of the second global conflict, 1939-45, the pessimistic predictions of these scholars and the great following they found are not ununderstandable.

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2015-08-26

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Swidler, L. (2015). THE AGE OF GLOBAL DIALOGUE. Marburg Journal of Religion, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.1996.1.3781

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (1996)

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