The Roots Of Religion
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The Roots of Religion
Author | : Roger Trigg,Justin L. Barrett |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2016-02-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781317016939 |
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The cognitive science of religion is a new discipline that looks at the roots of religious belief in the cognitive architecture of the human mind. The Roots of Religion deals with the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive science of religion which grounds religious belief in human cognitive structures: religious belief is ’natural’, in a way that even scientific thought is not. Does this new discipline support religious belief, undermine it, or is it, despite many claims, perhaps eventually neutral? This subject is of immense importance, particularly given the rise of the ’new atheism’. Philosophers and theologians from North America, UK and Australia, explore the alleged conflict between truth claims and examine the roots of religion in human nature. Is it less ’natural’ to be an atheist than to believe in God, or gods? On the other hand, if we can explain theism psychologically, have we explained it away. Can it still claim any truth? This book debates these and related issues.
Occult Roots of Religious Studies
Author | : Yves Mühlematter,Helmut Zander |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110660333 |
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The historiographers of religious studies have written the history of this discipline primarily as a rationalization of ideological, most prominently theological and phenomenological ideas: first through the establishment of comparative, philological and sociological methods and secondly through the demand for intentional neutrality. This interpretation caused important roots in occult-esoteric traditions to be repressed. This process of “purification” (Latour) is not to be equated with the origin of the academic studies. De facto, the elimination of idealistic theories took time and only happened later. One example concerning the early entanglement is Tibetology, where many researchers and respected chair holders were influenced by theosophical ideas or were even members of the Theosophical Society. Similarly, the emergence of comparatistics cannot be understood without taking into account perennialist ideas of esoteric provenance, which hold that all religions have a common origin. In this perspective, it is not only the history of religious studies which must be revisited, but also the partial shaping of religious studies by these traditions, insofar as it saw itself as a counter-model to occult ideas.
Homo Religiosus
Author | : Timothy Samuel Shah,Jack Friedman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781108422352 |
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Examines whether religion is natural to human experience, and whether this helps to ground a universal right to religious freedom.
A History of Japanese Religion
Author | : 笠原一男 |
Publsiher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111768870 |
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Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of religion in primitive Japanese society, they chart the growth of each of Japan's major religious organizations and doctrinal systems. They follow Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, and popular religious belief through major periods of change to show how history and religion affected each-and discuss the interactions between the different religious traditions.
The Roots of Ethics
Author | : Daniel Callahan |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781461333036 |
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OUR AGE IS CHARACTERIZED by an uncertainty about the na ture of moral obligations, about what one can hope for in an afterlife, and about the limits of human knowledge. These uncertainties were captured by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, where he noted three basic human questions: what can we know, what ought we to do, and what can we hope for. Those questions and the uncer tainties about their answers still in great part define our cultural per spective. In particular, we are not clear about the foundations of ethics, or about their relationship to religion and to science. This volume brings together previously published essays that focus on these inter relationships and their uncertainties. It offers an attempt to sketch the interrelationship among three major intellectual efforts: determining moral obligations, the ultimate purpose and goals of man and the cosmos, and the nature of empirical reality. Though imperfect, it is an effort to frame the unity of the human condition, which is captured in part by ethics, in part by religion, and in part by the sciences. Put another way, this collection of essays springs from an attempt to see the unity of humans who engage in the diverse roles of valuers, be lievers, and knowers, while still remaining single, individual humans.
The Soul of Doubt
Author | : Dominic Erdozain |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199844616 |
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From Freud to the new atheists, it is widely assumed that science is the enemy of religious faith. The idea is so pervasive that whole industries of religious apologetics converge around the challenge of Darwin, evolution, and the "secular worldview." This book challenges such assumptions by proposing a different cause of unbelief in the West: the Christian conscience. Tracing a history of doubt and unbelief from the Reformation to the age of Darwin and Karl Marx, 'The soul of doubt' argues that the most powerful solvents of religious orthodoxy have been concepts of moral equity and personal freedom generated by Christianity itself. The book demonstrates that the radical criticism of philosophers as influential as Spinoza, Voltaire and Ludwig Feuerbach was not the product of science. It emerged from a collision between religious values and religious practices, preeminently acts of persecution. This study offers a bold interpretation of the Enlightenment as a movement of vigorous spirituality, and it turns on its head conventional wisdom about the impact of Darwin and scientific naturalism.0The "nemesis of faith" was not science or secular reason: it was an ethical intuition that a dangerous God cannot be real.
Ancient Ways
Author | : Diane Olsen |
Publsiher | : Diane Olsen |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0996756558 |
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Revelation came to a variety of Primitive and Modern human types. Problems which arise, poverty, wars - appear when man tweaks Faith to make it more convenient, or expedient for their need or greed. The chain of "Ways" and "Paths" of the Prophets should unite all human prehistory and history, with the present and beyond.
The Myth of Religious Violence
Author | : William T Cavanaugh |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-09-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780195385045 |
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Cavanaugh challenges conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. He examines how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence.