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Religion in late modernity /
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| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Religion in Late Modernity
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Contingencies of Nature
- Nature Defined
- Cosmological Contingency: Determinateness and Time's Flow
- Ontological Contingency: Creation and Eternity
- Symbols of Ontological Asymmetry
- 2. Human Nature
- Defining Human Nature
- To Be under Obligation
- The Human Condition
- Orientation and Poise
- 3. Religious Symbols
- Symbolic Meaning and Religion
- The Reference of Religious Symbols
- The Interpretation of Religious Symbols
- The Truth of Religious Symbols
- 4. The Symbols of Divine Action.
- The Concept of God
- What Can We Know about God?
- When Can We Say God Is a Personal Agent?
- When Should We Not Say God Is a Personal Agent?
- 5. Eternity and the Transformation of Soul
- Eternity as a Contemporary Problem
- Plotinus and Eternity
- The Transformation of Soul to Engage Eternity
- The Engagement of Eternity
- Eternity Engaged through the Temporal
- Eternity in Time: Real and Illusory
- Eternity and Immortality
- 6. Religion and Scholarship
- Recent History of the Study of Religions
- Participation and Distance in a Typology of the Study of Religions.
- Models of Spirituality among Historically Conscious Scholars
- 7. Religion and Society
- World Society, World Culture, World Community
- The Causal Effectiveness of Religions
- Global Modernization and Religious Traditions
- Maitreyan Strategies
- 8. Religion and Politics: Spheres of Tolerance
- Religious Wars and the Alleged Privacy of Religion
- Obligation and Civil Religion
- Ultimacy and Religions' Essential Features
- Political Tolerance of Religions
- Religion and Public Theology
- 9. Religion and the American Experiment
- The American Religious Scene.
- The Experiment: An Hypothesis
- What Makes Religions Religious
- 10. Religion and Vital Engagement
- Engagement and Competence
- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Oversoul
- The Soul Transformed
- Emerson, Nietzsche, and Jesus: A Challenge to Modernism
- 11. The Public Character ofTheology and Religious Studies
- 12. Religions, Philosophies, and Philosophy of Religion
- The Impact of Scholarship on Philosophy of Religion
- A Definition of Philosophy of Religion
- The Problematic of Translation and Comparison
- Comparison, Philosophy, and Theology.
- 13. A Paleopragmatic Philosophy ofthe History of Philosophy
- Paleopragmatism
- Signs: The Phenomenology, Comparison, and Lineages of Philosophies
- Phenomenology of Philosophy
- Comparative Philosophy
- Philosophical Influences
- Philosophies as Referents: Structures, Insights, Orientation
- Philosophic Conceptual Structures as Icons
- Philosophies as Indices
- Philosophies as Conventional Orientations of Life: Symbolic Reference
- Philosophies as Interpretive Engagements:Truth, Usability, Fallibilism
- Philosophies as True or False in Their Contexts.