Maggie's Farm

It's rare for us to highlight works on sociology, but I'll make an exception for Peter Berger. Berger with Thomas Luckmann were the authors of the still-classic and fascinating The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, 1967

Despite the formality of the title, it's a very readable and persuasive book about our experiences of reality and the role of our local cultures in shaping our experience of reality.

Berger was on my mind because Pastor Keller had mentioned the idea of "relativizing the relativizers." I like that idea, because nobody can really think outside their own culture, and relativists and multiculturalists of all sorts tend not to be aware of how deeply Western and, indeed, parochial their views really are.

Anyway, that's a chapter from another book by Berger, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural. I have not read it, but I think I will.