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The Importance of Religion Meaning and Action in our Strange World

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.12.2011

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

272

Maße (L/B/H)

23/15,4/1,7 cm

Gewicht

349 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-8971-2

Beschreibung

Rezension

"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty." ( Choice , 1 January 2013)

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.12.2011

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

272

Maße (L/B/H)

23/15,4/1,7 cm

Gewicht

349 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-8971-2

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: The Importance of Religion
  • Preface xi
     
    Acknowledgments xv
     
    Introduction: Religion and the Human Condition 1
     
    Mediating Our Strange World 6
     
    Theories of Religion 8
     
    Religion and Religions 12
     
    Defining Religion 14
     
    The Argument 17
     
    Alienation and the Human Condition 17
     
    The Primacy of Perception and the System of Signs 23
     
    The Invisible and the Transcendent 24
     
    The Truths of Religion 26
     
    Conclusion 27
     
    Part One ACTION
     
    1 Clearing the Ground 37
     
    Reification: The Marxist Legacy 40
     
    Rationalization: The Weberian Legacy 44
     
    Knowledge and Action 46
     
    Methodology 49
     
    Conclusion 50
     
    2 The Meaning of Religious Action 53
     
    The Sociology of Religious Meaning 55
     
    Meaning and Action 58
     
    Moral Acts 60
     
    Ritual and the Body 63
     
    A Rite of Affliction 66
     
    The Meaning of Sacrifice 69
     
    A Phenomenology of Sacrifice 71
     
    The Meanings of Death 73
     
    Conclusion 74
     
    3 The Inner Journey 80
     
    Languages of Spirituality 83
     
    The Spiritual Habitus 91
     
    Conclusion 95
     
    Part Two SPEECH
     
    4 The Reception of the Text 101
     
    Routes to the World of Life 102
     
    Theories of the Text 106
     
    The Reception of Sacred Texts 109
     
    Sacred Text and Act 111
     
    Conclusion 113
     
    5 Tradition, Language, and the Self 115
     
    Linguistic Universals 117
     
    Linguistic Relativity 118
     
    Language and Religious Experience 122
     
    Language as a Model of Religion 125
     
    Conclusion 127
     
    6 Religion and Rationality 130
     
    What is Rationality? 131
     
    Rational Religious Communities 139
     
    Rationality and Cosmology 141
     
    Conclusion 146
     
    Part Three WORLD
     
    7 The Mystery of Complexity and Emergence 153
     
    A History of Antagonism 155
     
    Complexity and Constraint 159
     
    The Ontology of Process 164
     
    Conclusion 166
     
    8 The Union of Nature and Imagination 171
     
    Art and the Real 172
     
    Cosmological Art 175
     
    Pavel Florensky 177
     
    Abhinavagupta 178
     
    Secular Art 180
     
    Re-Spiritualizing Art 182
     
    Conclusion 185
     
    9 Religion and Politics 189
     
    Religion in the Public Sphere 190
     
    The Secular Public Sphere 195
     
    The Traditionalist View 197
     
    Fundamentalism 200
     
    The Religious Citizen 201
     
    Conclusion 205
     
    Summary 210
     
    Epilogue 217
     
    References 221
     
    Index 237