Sensational Religion in Past Times and the Present Day
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Author | : J. O. Bairstow |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Emotions |
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Author | : Sally Promey |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 793 |
Release | : 2014-06-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300190360 |
The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here ask, How have people used and valued sensory data? How have they shaped their material and immaterial worlds to encourage or discourage certain kinds or patterns of sensory experience? How have they framed the sensual capacities of images and objects to license a range of behaviors, including iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of religion embedded in secularization theory, editor Sally Promey proposes a fundamental reorientation in understanding the personal, social, political, and cultural work accomplished in religion’s sensory and material practice. Sensational Religion refocuses scholarly attention on the robust material entanglements often discounted by modernity’s metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human bodies, behaviors, affects, and beliefs.
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Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Christianity |
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Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1890 |
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Author | : John C. Wathey |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1633880745 |
An essential feature of religious experience across many cultures is the intuitive feeling of God's presence. More than any rituals or doctrines, it is this experience that anchors religious faith, yet it has been largely ignored in the scientific literature on religion.Starting with a vivid narrative account of the life-threatening hike that triggered his own mystical experience, biologist John Wathey takes the reader on a scientific journey to find the sources of religious feeling and the illusion of God's presence. His book delves into the biological origins of this compelling feeling, attributing it to innate neural circuitry that evolved to promote the mother-child bond. Dr. Wathey argues that evolution has programmed the infant brain to expect the presence of a loving being who responds to the child's needs. As the infant grows into adulthood, this innate feeling is eventually transferred to the realm of religion, where it is reactivated through the symbols, imagery, and rituals of worship. The author interprets our various conceptions of God in biological terms as illusory supernormal stimuli that fill an emotional and cognitive vacuum left over from infancy. These insights shed new light on some of the most vexing puzzles of religion, like the popular belief in a god who is judgmental and punishing, yet also unconditionally loving; the extraordinary tenacity of faith; the greater religiosity of women relative to men; religious obsessions with sex; the mysterious compulsion to pray; the seemingly irrepressible feminine attributes of God, even in traditionally patriarchal religions; and the strange allure of cults. Finally, Dr. Wathey considers the hypothesis that religion evolved to foster reproductive success, arguing that, in an age of potentially ruinous overpopulation, magical thinking has become a luxury we can no longer afford, one that distracts us from urgent threats to our planet.Deeply researched yet elegantly written in a jargon-free and accessible style, this book presents a compelling interpretation of the evolutionary origins of spirituality and religion.
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Total Pages | : 1452 |
Release | : 1894 |
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Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
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Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1900 |
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Total Pages | : 1370 |
Release | : 1890 |
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Author | : Christian Wiman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-04-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374216789 |
A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry