From Trustworthiness To Secular Beliefs

Author : Christian Meyer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004533001
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs written by Christian Meyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume excavates the genealogy of xin 信--a term that has become the modern Chinese counterpart for the English word "faith." More than twenty experts trace its religious and non-religious roots in several traditions, including Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, Muslim, Christian, Japanese, popular religious, and modern secular contexts.

Author : David Elton Trueblood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598895943
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trustworthiness of Religious Experience written by David Elton Trueblood and published by . This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elton Trueblood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trustworthiness of Religious Experience written by Elton Trueblood and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vincent William Lloyd
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621890767
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secular Faith written by Vincent William Lloyd and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is faith a necessary virtue in the contemporary world? May it be, or must it be, detached from religious commitment? What do genealogies of the secular tell us about faith? Does religion need secular faith? Secular Faith brings together leading and emerging scholars to reflect on the apparent paradox of "secular faith." Ranging over anthropology, religious studies, political science, history, and literature, from Muslims in China to Pentecostals in South Africa to a prison chapel in Texas, this collection of essays is as engaging and accessible as it is penetrating and rigorous. Communism was once labeled "the god that failed." Like Christianity, Communism involves faith in a superhuman endeavor, conversion, myth, discipline, and salvation--and, from the perspective of secular liberalism, both are unjustified and false. In recent years, scholars have begun to investigate whether secularism is itself based on faith in a god that failed, or is failing. Nevertheless, many still embrace such a faith, finding in the spirit of democracy an ethos of eternal renewal. Secular Faith enters and broadens this conversation, interrogating secular faith in a global context, tapping new theoretical resources, and grappling provocatively with the tragedies and opportunities of today's profane pantheon of beliefs.

Author : Anne Koch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350066737
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion written by Anne Koch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physical processes of religious life, tradition, practice, and belief. It reflects the cultural turn within the study of religion and puts theory to the fore, moving beyond traditional theological, philosophical, and ethnographic understandings of the aesthetics of religion. Editors Anne Koch and Katharina Wilkens bring together research in cultural studies, cognitive studies, material religion, religion and the arts, and epistemology. Questions of identity, gender, ethnicity, and postcolonialism are discussed throughout. Key topics include materiality, embodiment, performance, popular/vernacular art and space to move beyond a sensory understanding of aesthetics. Emerging areas of research are covered, including secular aesthetics and the aesthetic of spirits. This is an important contribution to theory and method in the study of religion, and is grounded in research that has been taking place in Europe over the past 20 years. Case studies are drawn from around the world with contributions from scholars based in Europe, the USA, and Australia. The book is illustrated with over 40 color images and features a foreword from Birgit Meyer.

Author : Caroline Blyth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000290115
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts written by Caroline Blyth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a means of communication. Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of philosophers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, and scholars of religion and the Bible, the volume investigates the ways that spirit possession narratives, events, and rituals are often interwoven around communicative acts, both between spiritual and earthly realms and between members of a community. This book offers fresh insight into the enduring cultural and religious significance of spirit possession. It will be an important resource for scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, including religion, anthropology, history, linguistics, and philosophy.

Author : Li Wai-yee
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9882371191
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keywords in Chinese Culture written by Li Wai-yee and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of keywords: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages of keywords is one of the best ways to chart cultural and historical changes. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a new integrative study of their semantic richness, development trajectory, and distinct usages in Chinese culture. The authors of the volume explore different keywords and focus on different periods and genres, ranging from philosophical and historical texts of the Warring States period (453-V221 BCE) to late imperial (ca. 6th?V18th centuries CE) literature and philosophy. They are guided by a similar set of questions: What elevates a mere word to the status of keyword? What sort of resonance and reverberations do we expect a keyword to have? How much does the semantic range of a keyword explain its significance? What kinds of arguments does it generate? What are the stories told to illustrate its meanings? What are political and intellectual implications of the keyword's reevaluation? What does it mean to translate a keyword and map its meaning against other languages? Throughout Chinese history, new ideas and new approaches often mean reinterpreting important words; rupture, continuities, and inflection points are inseparable from the linguistic history of specific terms. The premise of this book is that taking the long view and encompassing different disciplines yield new insights and unexpected connections. The authors, who come from the fields of history,

Author : Chloë Starr
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506487963
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chinese Theologies written by Chloë Starr and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Theologies introduces the vibrant development of Chinese theology in its many forms across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also challenges prevalent narratives regarding the lack of Chinese theologies and engages questions of the construction of theology in their own traditions/nations.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Honest Religion for Secular Man written by Lesslie Newbigin and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Helm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780851114767
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trustworthiness of God written by Paul Helm and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: