The Roots Of Religion

Author : Roger Trigg,Justin L. Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317016939

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The Roots of Religion by Roger Trigg,Justin L. Barrett Pdf

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.

Author : Yves Mühlematter,Helmut Zander
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110660333

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Occult Roots of Religious Studies by Yves Mühlematter,Helmut Zander Pdf

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.

Author : Professor Roger Trigg,Professor Justin L Barrett
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472427311

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The Roots of Religion by Professor Roger Trigg,Professor Justin L Barrett Pdf

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. This book 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. 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.

Author : Georgette F. Bennett,Jerry White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781637581025

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Religicide by Georgette F. Bennett,Jerry White Pdf

A brave and timely proposal to name, investigate, and ultimately stop a new crime–the mass murder of millions of people for their faith. eligion-related violence is the fastest spreading type of violence worldwide. Attacks on religious minorities follow a clear pattern and are preceded with early warning signs. Until now, such violence had no name, let alone a set of policies designed to identify and prevent it. A unique attempt to create a new moral and legal category alongside other forms of persecution and mass murder, Religicide explores the roots of atrocities such as the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Bosnian war, and other human rights catastrophes. The authors tap into their decades of activism, interreligious engagement, and people-to-people diplomacy to delve into a gripping examination of contemporary religicides: the Yazidis in Iraq, the Rohingya in Myanmar, Uyghur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists in China, and the centuries-long efforts to wipe out Indigenous Americans. Yet, even in the face of these horrific atrocities, the authors resist despair. They amplify the voices of survivors and offer a blueprint for action, calling on government, business, civil society, and religious leaders to join in a global campaign to protect religious minorities.

Author : Dominic Erdozain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199844616

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The Soul of Doubt by Dominic Erdozain Pdf

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.

Author : Gordon Willard Allport
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Psychology and religion
ISBN : OCLC:12365164

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The Roots of Religion by Gordon Willard Allport Pdf

Author : Timothy Samuel Shah,Jack Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108422352

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Homo Religiosus? by Timothy Samuel Shah,Jack Friedman Pdf

Examines whether religion is natural to human experience, and whether this helps to ground a universal right to religious freedom.

Author : Saral Jhingran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religions
ISBN : UVA:X030040142

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The Roots of World Religions by Saral Jhingran Pdf

Comparative study of Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam.

Author : Daniel Callahan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461333036

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The Roots of Ethics by Daniel Callahan Pdf

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.

Author : Miroslav Volf,Tony Blair
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300190557

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Flourishing by Miroslav Volf,Tony Blair Pdf

More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing visions of what it means to live well. In this perceptive, deeply personal, and beautifully written book, a leading theologian sheds light on how religions and globalization have historically interacted and argues for what their relationship ought to be. Recounting how these twinned forces have intersected in his own life, he shows how world religions, despite their malfunctions, remain one of our most potent sources of moral motivation and contain within them profoundly evocative accounts of human flourishing. Globalization should be judged by how well it serves us for living out our authentic humanity as envisioned within these traditions. Through renewal and reform, religions might, in turn, shape globalization so that can be about more than bread alone.

Author : Alec Ryrie
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674243279

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Unbelievers by Alec Ryrie Pdf

“How has unbelief come to dominate so many Western societies? The usual account invokes the advance of science and rational knowledge. Ryrie’s alternative, in which emotions are the driving force, offers new and interesting insights into our past and present.” —Charles Taylor, author of A Secular Age Why have societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? We think we know the answer, pointing to science and reason as the twin culprits, but in this lively, startlingly original reconsideration, Alec Ryrie argues that people embraced unbelief much as they have always chosen their worldviews: through the heart more than the mind. Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, he shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. As Protestant radicals eroded time-honored certainties and ushered in an age of anger and anxiety, some defended their faith by redefining it in terms of ethics, setting in motion secularizing forces that soon became transformational. Unbelievers tells a powerful emotional history of doubt with potent lessons for our own angry and anxious times. “Well-researched and thought-provoking...Ryrie is definitely on to something right and important.” —Christianity Today “A beautifully crafted history of early doubt...Unbelievers covers much ground in a short space with deep erudition and considerable wit.” —The Spectator “Ryrie traces the root of religious skepticism to the anger, the anxiety, and the ‘desperate search for certainty’ that drove thinkers like...John Donne to grapple with church dogma.” —New Yorker

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1424243902

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The Roots of Religion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : God
ISBN : 0517223120

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A History of God by Karen Armstrong Pdf

A study of the deity of the world's three dominant monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In a dynamic interplay between religion and society's ever-changing beliefs, values, and traditions, human beings' ideas about God have been transformed. Ideas about God have been molded to apply to the spiritual needs of the people who worship him in a particular place and time. The author explores and analyzes the development and progression of the various perceptions of God from the days of Abraham to present times--Adapted from book jacket.

Author : Roger Bastide
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0816632499

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Social Origins of Religion by Roger Bastide Pdf

This wide-ranging study takes the story of Kenneth Jackson's Language and History in Early Britain on from the 12th century to the end of the 20th century, mainly by using written and oral recordings of place-names. The main emphasis is on the place-names of Cardiganshire (now Ceredigion) but place-names in other parts of Wales are also considered and they are all discussed in the context of historical dialectology."

Author : Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780571279326

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Battling the Gods by Tim Whitmarsh Pdf

How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, and the Age of Faith mostly suppressed the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity. Tim Whitmarsh brings to life the fascinating ideas of Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; and Epicurus and his followers. He shows how the early Christians came to define themselves against atheism, and so suppress the philosophy of disbelief. Battling the Gods is the first book on the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state. Authoritative and bold, provocative and humane, it reveals how atheism and doubt, far from being modern phenomena, have intrigued the human imagination for thousands of years.