Background
Weigert, Andrew Joseph was born on April 8, 1934 in New York City. Son of Andrew Joseph and Marie Teresa (Kollmer) Weigert.
(Self, Interaction, and Natural Environment helps us as in...)
Self, Interaction, and Natural Environment helps us as individuals to understand environmental issues and to respond accordingly. Although it acknowledges that such issues exist on a worldwide scale, it sharpens our focus on the personal level. For example, it shows that most people do not consider the pollution they cause by operating cars or fertilizing lawns. Throughout the text, the author links ideas to both social concerns and everyday activities, helping readers to comprehend political decisions that involve the environment, as well as making them more aware of their own role in that respect.
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(Discussion of significant changes in conditions of human ...)
Discussion of significant changes in conditions of human living are part of today's context. A salient construct for grasping these issues is "endtime," or narrative transformation of the current situation into religious or secular contexts. This book builds on a sociological approach to cognition, emotions, and constructions of time to show the motivational force of endtime thinking and identity. Six narratives are summarized to illustrate the transformative power of religious narratives by contrast with a scientific and a philosophical narrative. Religious narratives begin with acts of faith in texts and worldview. Membership in faith communities excludes those who do not believe and projects different futures for believers and non-believers, one saved and the other not. The following summaries illustrate the exclusivist power of such transformative narratives: Catholic Papal discussion of the Millenium; premillenial dispensationalist fundamentalist Protestant texts; rationales for the group suicide by members of Heaven's Gate at Rancho Santa Fe; and Osama bin Laden's religious legitimations of suicide-martyr terrorist actions. Scientific narratives, by contrast, rely on empirical indicators and public discourse. Any competent person can participate in these narratives, and the world they describe applies to all humans and relevant terrestrial systems. Scientific narratives are inclusivist epistemologically and consequentially. Summaries of empirical aspects of environmental issues and of a philosophical reflection on the current state of the world illustrate the inclusivity of secular transformative narratives. Finally, each person is responsible for choosing a narrative both to believe and to enact. Only those that are empirical and inclusive offer a possibility of this-worldly hope.
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Weigert, Andrew Joseph was born on April 8, 1934 in New York City. Son of Andrew Joseph and Marie Teresa (Kollmer) Weigert.
Bachelor, St. Saint Louis University, 1958; Philosophy, St. Saint Louis University, 1959; Master of Arts, St. Saint Louis University, 1960; BTh, Woodstock (Maryland.) College, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1968.
National Institute of Mental Health trainee, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1965-1967; assistant professor sociology, U. Notre Dame, Indiana, 1968-1972; associate professor, U. Notre Dame, Indiana, 1972-1976; professor, U. Notre Dame, Indiana, since 1976; department chairman, U. Notre Dame, Indiana, 1980-1984, 88-89. Visiting associate professor Yale University, New Haven, 1973-1974. Participant national and regional professional meetings.
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(Discussion of significant changes in conditions of human ...)
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Member Society for Study Symbolic Interaction, Society for Science Study Religion, Association for Sociology Religion.
Married Kathleen Rose Maas, August 31, 1967. Children: Karen Rose, Sheila Marie.