Religion and the Scientific Future
Author | : Langdon Gilkey |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780865540309 |
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Author | : Langdon Gilkey |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780865540309 |
Author | : Charles Earle Raven |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Roberto Mangabeira Unger |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1784787302 |
A new philosophy of religion for a secular world How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us? These questions stand at the center of Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The Religion of the Future: an argument for both spiritual and political revolution. It proposes the content of a religion that can survive without faith in a transcendent God or in life after death. According to this religion—the religion of the future—human beings can be more human by becoming more godlike, not just later, in another life or another time, but right now, on Earth and in their own lives. They can become more godlike without denying the irreparable flaws in the human condition: our mortality, groundlessness, and insatiability.
Author | : Todd LeVasseur |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498534562 |
This book explores the interface of bodies and religion by investigating the impacts human-induced global warming will have on the embodied and performed practices of religion in ecologies of place. By utilizing analytical insights from religion and nature theory, posthumanism, queer ecologies, ecological animisms, indigenous knowledges, material feminisms, and performance studies the book advocates for a need to update how religious studies theorizes bodies and religion. It does so by in the first half of the book advocating for religious studies as a field, and the academy as a whole, to take the ongoing and deleterious future impacts of climate change seriously--to re-member that those laboring as scholars in religious studies, and the communities they study, have always been bodies in material bio-ecological places--and to let this inform the questions religious studies scholars ask. The book argues that this will lead to very different forms of engaged, liberatory scholarship that demands a different type of scholarship and public advocacy for resilience in the face of climate change. The second half of the book offers case study examples of how scholars may better engage religious bodies within petrocultures, while attending to new, emerging materialist posthuman assemblages of religious bodies. This book will be of interest to those in religious studies, the environmental humanities, and those working at the interface of the body and the natural world.
Author | : Theodore John Rivers |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0761856544 |
In The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future, Theodore John Rivers explores the changing relationship between technology and religion. Rivers draws upon his expertise in the fields of medieval and religious history to discuss how the promotion of Christianity and monasticism in the Middle Ages began a process that has lent religious undertones to the way in which we interact with modern technology. Rivers ultimately suggests that the growing presence of technology makes it a likely candidate for the next religious form, competing with all the major religions in place today.
Author | : Charles Earle Raven |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Religion and science |
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Author | : Ron Frost |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1846943582 |
As commonly presented the great battle between science and religion over evolution is intractable. This book maintains that the approaches both sides take in the debate drive most of the fury in the debate. Although the facts of evolution are beyond doubt, the big mistake that many scientists make is to present these facts using a materialistic premise that is not scientifically defendable. The resulting model for evolution implies that humans arose on this planet merely by chance, that the value of our lives is based only upon the genes that we carry within us, and that our lives are essentially meaningless. Naturally religious people recoil in horror as such a bleak view of human existence. In this book Dr. Frost argues that all the World's Religions advocate for the existence of a transcendent consciousness. Scientific studies can in no way prove or disprove the existence of this consciousness.
Author | : Rodney Stark |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520341341 |
Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education, and modern economics. But they were wrong. Stark and Bainbridge set out to explain the survival of religion. Using information derived from numerous surveys, censuses, historical case studies, and ethnographic field expeditions, they chart the full sweep of contemporary religion from the traditional denominations to the most fervent cults. This wealth of information is located within a coherent theoretical framework that examines religion as a social response to human needs, both the general needs shared by all and the desires specific to those who are denied the economic rewards or prestige enjoyed by the privileged. By explaining the forms taken by religions today, Stark and Bainbridge allow us to understand its persistence in a secular age and its prospects for the future, This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985. Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education,
Author | : Charles E. Raven |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2017-10-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780282806026 |
Excerpt from Science, Religion, and the Future: A Course of Eight Lectures The proper purpose Of a Preface is to state the standpoint and intention of that which follows. It is an apologia though not necessarily an apology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Huston Smith |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0061756245 |
Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World's Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocated by the dominant materialistic worldview of our times. Smith champions a society in which religion is once again treasured and authentically practiced as the vital source of human wisdom.