Taking Religious Claims Seriously

Author : Teemu Taira
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004511687
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion written by Teemu Taira and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on examples from judicial processes, media discourses, and scholarly debates related to Wiccans, Druids, and Jedi knights, among others, this book examines how social actors negotiate what counts as “religion” and argues for the relevance of the discursive study of religion.

Author : Warren A. Nord
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416604375
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum written by Warren A. Nord and published by ASCD. This book was released on 1998 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors chart a middle course in our war over religion and public education, one that builds on a developing national consensus among educational and religious leaders. While it is not proper for schools to practice religion or proselytize, neither is it permissible to make them religion-free zones. Schools do not take religion seriously, as the authors' review of textbooks and the new national content standards makes clear. In Part One, they outline the civic, constitutional, and educational frameworks that should shape the treatment of religion in the curriculum and classroom. In Part Two, they explore major issues relating to religion in different domains of the curriculum in elementary education and in middle and high school courses in history, civics, economics, literature, and the sciences. They also discuss Bible courses and world religions courses and explore the relationship of religion to moral education and sex education. Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Author : Warren E. Steinkraus
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Religious Claims Seriously written by Warren E. Steinkraus and published by Brill. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Religious Claims Seriously is a systematic, critical, and comprehensive study of the fundamental questions of the philosophy of religion: religious experience, the existence and nature of God, religious knowledge and truth, good and evil, immortality of the soul, religious diversity, religious claims about the person, faith, and the religious way of life. In this study the author seeks to capture the reality and meaning of the religious as such: What is the foundation of religion? Under what conditions is an authentic religious way of life possible? His method of inquiry is phenomenological. The author begins his discussion with a general characterization of the basic features of all the literate and illiterate religions of the world. He then identifies the ideas, beliefs, and concerns which are common to these religions: What are the central claims of these religions? How did the various religions understand these claims? The author makes a serious attempt to clarify these claims and explore the possibility for a reconcilation between them. For him, the foundation of religion is the religious experience, and the essence of this experience consists in a serious, cognitive, and meaningful encounter with the Ultimate Being. This being is the ground of the world and human life. This book is a comparative, pluralistic study of the philosophy of religion.

Author : Warren E. Steinkraus
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004495193
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Religious Claims Seriously written by Warren E. Steinkraus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Religious Claims Seriously is a systematic, critical, and comprehensive study of the fundamental questions of the philosophy of religion: religious experience, the existence and nature of God, religious knowledge and truth, good and evil, immortality of the soul, religious diversity, religious claims about the person, faith, and the religious way of life. In this study the author seeks to capture the reality and meaning of the religious as such: What is the foundation of religion? Under what conditions is an authentic religious way of life possible? His method of inquiry is phenomenological. The author begins his discussion with a general characterization of the basic features of all the literate and illiterate religions of the world. He then identifies the ideas, beliefs, and concerns which are common to these religions: What are the central claims of these religions? How did the various religions understand these claims? The author makes a serious attempt to clarify these claims and explore the possibility for a reconcilation between them. For him, the foundation of religion is the religious experience, and the essence of this experience consists in a serious, cognitive, and meaningful encounter with the Ultimate Being. This being is the ground of the world and human life. This book is a comparative, pluralistic study of the philosophy of religion.

Author : Barbara A. McGraw
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 : 1932792333
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously written by Barbara A. McGraw and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clash between the religious right and the secular left undermines any serious debate about the role of religion in American public life. Such strident cultural rhetoric often ignores the positive contributions of America's many religions. By contrast, this volume celebrates America's religious diversity, demonstrating that religious pluralism is actually one of democracy's basic building blocks. Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously expands on Barbara A. McGraw's framework for understanding religious participation in public life--a two-tiered public forum, consisting of the civic public forum and the conscientious public forum. The chapters explore how diverse religious communities and traditions, including "newer" and marginalized religions, can make a meaningful contribution to American society and politics.

Author : Francis J. Beckwith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316432459
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Rites Seriously written by Francis J. Beckwith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Rites Seriously is about how religious beliefs and religious believers are assessed by judges and legal scholars and are sometimes mischaracterized and misunderstood by those who are critical of the influence of religion in politics or in the formation of law. Covering three general topics - reason and motive, dignity and personhood, nature and sex - philosopher and legal theorist Francis J. Beckwith carefully addresses several contentious legal and cultural questions over which religious and non-religious citizens often disagree: the rationality of religious belief, religiously motivated legislation, human dignity in bioethics, abortion and embryonic stem cell research, reproductive rights and religious liberty, evolutionary theory, and the nature of marriage. In the process, he responds to some well-known critics of public faith - including Brian Leiter, Steven Pinker, Suzanna Sherry, Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, and Richard Dawkins - as well as to some religiously conservative critics of secularism, such as the advocates for intelligent design.

Author : Iain William Provan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481300223
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seriously Dangerous Religion written by Iain William Provan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive (re)reading of the Old Testament in light of contemporary issues

Author : Charles Monroe Schulz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871625809
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Take My Religion Seriously written by Charles Monroe Schulz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremy A. Evans
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433671824
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Christian Moral Thought Seriously written by Jeremy A. Evans and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian scholars make a clear case for the legitimacy of religious beliefs in the marketplace of ideas, addressing the theory of public reason, voting in America, environmentalism, abortion, education, and more.

Author : Antony Loewenstein
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743289138
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For God's Sake written by Antony Loewenstein and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world? and Where do we find hope? We are introduced to the detail of different belief systems - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - and to the argument that atheism, like organised religion, has its own compelling logic. And we gain insight into the life events that led each author to their current position. Jane Caro flirted briefly with spiritual belief, inspired by 19th century literary heroines such as Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontë sisters. Antony Lowenstein is proudly culturally, yet unconventionally, Jewish. Simon Smart is firmly and resolutely a Christian, but one who has had some of his most profound spiritual moments while surfing. Rachel Woodlock grew up in the alternative embrace of Baha'i belief but became entranced by its older parent religion, Islam. Provocative, informative and passionately argued, For God's Sake encourages us to accept religious differences but to also challenge more vigorously the beliefs that create discord.