The Meaning Of Religion

Author : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451420142
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning and End of Religion written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.

Author : Tim Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674982727
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Belief written by Tim Crane and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers a way out of this stalemate. An atheist himself, Tim Crane writes that there is a fundamental flaw with most atheists' basic approach: religion is not what they think it is. Atheists tend to treat religion as a kind of primitive cosmology, as the sort of explanation of the universe that science offers. They conclude that religious believers are irrational, superstitious, and bigoted. But this view of religion is almost entirely inaccurate. Crane offers an alternative account based on two ideas. The first is the idea of a religious impulse: the sense people have of something transcending the world of ordinary experience, even if it cannot be explicitly articulated. The second is the idea of identification: the fact that religion involves belonging to a specific social group and participating in practices that reinforce the bonds of belonging. Once these ideas are properly understood, the inadequacy of atheists' conventional conception of religion emerges. The Meaning of Belief does not assess the truth or falsehood of religion. Rather, it looks at the meaning of religious belief and offers a way of understanding it that both makes sense of current debate and also suggests what more intellectually responsible and practically effective attitudes atheists might take to the phenomenon of religion.--

Author : F. Kristensen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401765804
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Religion written by F. Kristensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clifford Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421563
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Meaning of Life written by Clifford Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores life's meaning through the lens of belief in God and lived realities including boredom, denial of death, and suicide.

Author : John Bowker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198662426
Total Pages : 1111 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions written by John Bowker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of World Religion is the most wide-ranging A-Z reference guide to all aspects of the world's religions past and present. Whether the reader seeks quick, accessible answers from the short entries or more detailed discussion from the longer more discursive articles, it offers a wealth of unrivalled and unbiased authoritative detail. With a total of over 8,200 entries, an extensive topic index, and an original and in-depth introductory essay this new dictionary, drawing on the latest research, is the definitive compendium on the subject. Religions; movements, sects, and cults; texts books; individuals; sacred sites; customs; themes on general topics relevant to all religions such as prayer, biogenetics, asceticism, confession, cosmology, art and architecture, music and dance; accessible reference hundreds of quotations many translated specially for this book; and a topic index listing 13,000 entries on major themes such as Brahman, breathing, death beliefs and rituals, heavens and paradises, kami, mandala, mantra, mysticism, Sufism, yoga, and Zen practice.

Author : Leonard Swidler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137470690
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding written by Leonard Swidler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable volume gathers together the cumulative insight of more than fifty years of Leonard Swidler's work on dialogue. The founder and president of the Dialogue Institute, Swidler offers through experience and research his theory and tools of interreligious, intercultural, and international dialogue.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900422534X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Body written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice, focusing especially on the body and the construction of religious meaning.

Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191045896
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion written by Michael Stausberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and explanation of religion. Reflecting recent turns in the humanities and social sciences, part three considers eight forms of the expression of religion. Part four provides a discussion of the ways societies and religions, or religious organizations, are shaped by different forms of allocation of resources. Other chapters in this section consider law, the media, nature, medicine, politics, science, sports, and tourism. Part five reviews important developments, distinctions, and arguments for each of the selected topics. The study of religion addresses religion as a historical phenomenon and part six looks at seven historical processes. Religion is studied in various ways by many disciplines, and this Handbook shows that the study of religion is an academic discipline in its own right. The disciplinary profile of this volume is reflected in part seven, which considers the history of the discipline and its relevance. Each chapter in the Handbook references at least two different religions to provide fresh and innovative perspectives on key issues in the field. This authoritative collection will advance the state of the discipline and is an invaluable reference for students and scholars.

Author : Scotty McLennan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060653469
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Your Religion written by Scotty McLennan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-12-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indispensable Guidebook for Those Seeking a New Spiritual Path, or Wishing to Reconnect to the Religion of Their Youth

Author : Roy A. Rappaport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780938190271
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecology, Meaning, and Religion written by Roy A. Rappaport and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two enterprises have proceeded in anthropology since ts earliest days. One, objective in its aspirations and inspired by biological disciplines, seeks explanation and is concerned to discover laws and causes. The other, subjective in its orientation and influenced by philosophy, linguistics, and the humatities, attempts interpretation and seeks to elucidate meanings. I take any raditcal separation of the two to be misguided, for the relationship between tem, with all of its difficulty, ambiguity, and tension, is a reflection of, or metaphor for, the condition of a species that lives in terms of meanings in a physical world devoid of intrinsic meaning but subject to causal law. The concept of adaptatioon when applied to human society must take account of meaning as well as cause, and of the complex dynamic of their relationship." -from the book.