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Author : Michael S. Hogue
Release : 2010-12-28
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Promise of Religious Naturalism by : Michael S. Hogue
Download or read book The Promise of Religious Naturalism written by Michael S. Hogue. This book was released on 2010-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Promise of Religious Naturalism explores religious naturalism as a distinctly promising form of contemporary religious ethics. Examining how religious naturalism responds to the challenges of recent religious transformations and ecological peril worldwide, author Michael Hogue argues that religious naturalism is emerging as an increasingly plausible and potentially rewarding form of religious moral life. Beginning with an introduction of religious naturalism in the larger context of religious and ethical theories, the book undertakes the first extended study of the works of religious naturalists Loyal Rue, Donald Crosby, Jerome Stone, and Ursula Goodenough. Hogue pays particular attention to the ethical components of religious naturalism in relation to religious pluralism and ecological issues.
Author : Loyal D. Rue
Release : 1994
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 080/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis By the Grace of Guile by : Loyal D. Rue
Download or read book By the Grace of Guile written by Loyal D. Rue. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a noble lie can save us from the psychological and social chaos now threatened by the spread of skepticism about the meaning of life and the universe.
Author : Sophia Heller
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 553/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Absence of Myth by : Sophia Heller
Download or read book The Absence of Myth written by Sophia Heller. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative work, Sophia Heller challenges the assumption that we cannot be without myth, that myth is necessary to vital, soulful living. Indeed, Heller argues, we have been living in a world without myth for a long time. The Absence of Myth examines the loss of a religious mode of being-in-the-world and demonstrates how theorists who insist on the presence of myth deny its historical end. Absence of myth may seem obvious: evidenced by our lack of cult and ritual, and by our de-animated natural world, as well as in the emergence of conceptual thought and psychological awareness, which could only arise with the dissolution of a prereflective (mythic) mode of being-in-the-world. But what appears to be straightforward becomes complicated when myth is intentionally conflated with thought and reflection, usually in the attempt to cultivate a "mythic consciousness" that aims to restore meaning to life and assuage the spiritual malaise of contemporary culture. Myth cannot rest in peace. It must be continually unearthed, redefined, and recontextualized such that modern and postmodern notions of myth are made to substitute for something that has never been experienced, only imagined.
Author : Lisa H. Sideris
Release : 2017-08-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 998/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Consecrating Science by : Lisa H. Sideris
Download or read book Consecrating Science written by Lisa H. Sideris. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Consecrating Science, Lisa Sideris offers a searing critique of 'The New Cosmology,' a complex network of overlapping movements that claim to bring together science and spirituality, all in the name of saving our planet from impending ecological collapse. Highly regarded in many academic circles, these movements have been endorsed by numerous prominent scholars, scientists, historians, and educators. Their express goal--popularized in numerous books, films, TED talks, YouTube videos, podcasts, and even introductory courses at places like Harvard or Washington University--is to instill in readers and audiences a profound sense of being at home in the universe, thereby fostering environmentally responsible behavior. Whether promoted as 'The New Story,' 'The Universe Story,' or 'The Epic of Evolution,' they all offer humanity a new sacred story, a common creation myth for modern times and for all people: the evolutionary unfolding of the universe from the Big Bang to the present. Evolutionary science and religious cosmology--together at last! But as Sideris shows, however, the New Cosmology actually underwrites a staggeringly anthropocentric vision of the world. Instead of cultivating an ethic of respect for nature, the project of 'consecrating science' only increases human arrogance and indifference to nonhuman life. Going back to the work of Rachel Carson and other naturalists, the author shows how a sense of wonder, rooted in the natural world and our own ethical impulses, helps foster environmental attitudes and policies that protect our planet"--Provided by publishe
