Radical Interpretation In Religion

Author : Nancy Frankenberry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521816861
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Interpretation in Religion written by Nancy Frankenberry and published by . This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents new methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious belief and language from a variety of perspectives: anthropology of religion, ritual studies, cognitive psychology, semantics, post-analytic philosophy, history of religions, and philosophy of religion. For the first time, a collection of original essays explores the significance of Donald Davidson's 'radical interpretation', Robert Brandom's 'inferentialism', and Richard Rorty's pragmatism for issues in the study of religion. Related topics include cultural variations in belief from Madagascar to China, experimental research from cognitive science, and the semantics of myth, metaphor, mana and manna. Radical Interpretation in Religion will be of interest to both general readers and specialists seeking a deeper understanding of new directions in the study of religion.

Author : Nancy Frankenberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521017053
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Interpretation in Religion written by Nancy Frankenberry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Erich Fromm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Shall be as Gods written by Erich Fromm and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mikel Burley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350098337
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion written by Mikel Burley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique introduction to studying the philosophy of religion, drawing on a wide range of cultures and literary sources in an approach that is both methodologically innovative and expansive in its cross-cultural and multi-religious scope. Employing his expertise in interdisciplinary and Wittgenstein-influenced methods, Mikel Burley draws on works of ethnography and narrative fiction, including Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, to critically engage with existing approaches to the philosophy of religion and advocate a radical, pluralist approach. Breaking away from the standard fixation on a narrow construal of theism, topics discussed include conceptions of compassion in Buddhist ethics, cannibalism in mortuary rituals, divine possession and animal sacrifice in Hindu Goddess worship and animism in indigenous traditions. Original and engaging, Burley's synthesis of philosophical, anthropological and literary elements expands and diversifies the philosophy of religion, providing an essential introduction for anyone interested in studying the radical plurality of forms that religion takes in human life.

Author : Nancy Frankenberry
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887064098
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Radical Empiricism written by Nancy Frankenberry and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril. This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiry. Religion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truth-claims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria. Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of religion, the author weaves together a study of the varieties of empiricism in all its historical forms from Hume to Quine. She finds in James and Dewey; in Wieman, Meland, and Loomer of the Chicago School; in Whitehead; and in Abhidharma Buddhism constructive elements of a radically empirical approach to the controversial topic of religious experience. This work provides a strong counter-argument to critics of “revisionary theism,” to caricatures of philosophy as “conversation,” and to any collapse of the category of experience into its linguistic forms.

Author : Christopher D. Rodkey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319965956
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology written by Christopher D. Rodkey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology is the definitive guide to radical theology and the commencement for new directions in that field. For the first time, radical theology is addressed and assessed in a single, comprehensive volume, including introductory and historical essays for the beginner, essays on major figures and their thought, and shorter articles on various themes, concepts, and related topics. This book is a seminal work for the radical theology movement. It clarifies origins and demonstrates the exigency and utility of current figures and issues. A useful and essential guide for newcomers and veterans in the field, this volume serves as both a reference work and an introduction to omitted or forgotten topics within contemporary discussions.

Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780684831046
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Reformations written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented collaboration between two world-renowned historians--one Catholic, the other Protestant--offers a dazzling work of history which explains the current worldwide resurgence of Christianity through a radical interpretation of the causes and effects of the Protestant Reformation.

Author : Don Cupitt
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334048117
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turns of Phrase written by Don Cupitt and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a Devil's Dictionary of the author's own ideas, with cross-links from entry to entry guiding the reader around his system. This title points out that the non-arrival of the Kingdom left the early Christians looking up vigilantly towards a better world that was yet to come.

Author : Jeffrey W. Robbins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253022126
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Theology written by Jeffrey W. Robbins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Radical theology" and "political theology" are terms that have gained a lot of currency among philosophers of religion today. In this visionary new book, Jeffrey W. Robbins explores the contemporary direction of these movements as he charts a course for their future. Robbins claims that radical theology is no longer bound by earlier thinking about God and that it must be conceived of as postsecular and postliberal. As he engages with themes of liberation, gender, and race, Robbins moves beyond the usual canon of death-of-God thinkers, thinking "against" them as much as "with" them. He presents revolutionary thinking in the face of changing theological concepts, from reformation to transformation, transcendence to immanence, messianism to metamorphosis, and from the proclamation of the death of God to the notion of God’s plasticity.

Author : Terry F. Godlove
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521361798
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Interpretation and Diversity of Belief written by Terry F. Godlove and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different religious traditions offer apparently very different pictures of the world. How are we to make sense of this radical diversity of religious belief? In this book, Professor Godlove argues that religions are alternative conceptual frameworks, the categories of which organise experience in diverse ways. He traces the history of this idea from Kant to Durkheim, and then proceeds to discuss two constraints on the diversity of all human judgment and belief: first that human experience is made possible by shared, a priori rules, and second, that as language-users we must presuppose that we hold the vast bulk of our beliefs in common. Given these unavoidable constraints, it is clear how religions may offer encompassing symbolic systems that often diverge dramatically from one another. 'An original and brilliant critique of Durkheim and Kant from within the framework of Davidson's semantic theory. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the academic study of religion, and the problems of relativism and the diversity of belief.' -- Hans H. Penner, Dartmouth CollegeDifferent religious traditions offer apparently very different pictures of the world. How are we to make sense of this radical diversity of religious belief? In this book, Professor Godlove argues that religions are alternative conceptual frameworks, the categories of which organise experience in diverse ways. He traces the history of this idea from Kant to Durkheim, and then proceeds to discuss two constraints on the diversity of all human judgment and belief: first that human experience is made possible by shared, a priori rules, and second, that as language-users we must presuppose that we hold the vast bulk of our beliefs in common. Given these unavoidable constraints, it is clear how religions may offer encompassing symbolic systems that often diverge dramatically from one another. 'An original and brilliant critique of Durkheim and Kant from within the framework of Davidson's semantic theory. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the academic study of religion, and the problems of relativism and the diversity of belief.' -- Hans H. Penner, Dartmouth College