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A Queasy Agnosticism
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 52, Number 4, Fall 2005 (whole No. 221)
- pp. 91-94
- 10.1353/dss.2005.0080
- Review
- Additional Information
Once they could no longer believe in the immortality of the soul, many Westerners substituted the project of improving human life on Earth for that of getting to Heaven. Hoping for the achievement of Enlightenment ideals took the place of yearning to see the face of God. Spiritual life came to center around movements for social change, rather than around prayer or ritual.