Religion in Late ModernitySUNY Press, 17/07/2002 - 284 páginas Religion in Late Modernity runs against the grain of common suppositions of contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. Against the common supposition that basic religious terms have no real reference but are mere functions of human need, the book presents a pragmatic theory of religious symbolism in terms of which the cognitive engagement of the Ultimate is of a piece with the cognitive engagement of nature and persons. Throughout this discussion, Neville develops a late-modern conception of God that is defensible in a global theological public. Against the common supposition that religion is on the retreat in late modernity except in fundamentalist forms, the author argues that religion in our time is a stimulus to religiously oriented scholarship, a civilizing force among world societies, a foundation for obligation in politics, a source for healthy social experimentation, and the most important mover of soul. |
Índice
The Contingencies of Nature | 9 |
Determinateness and Times Flow | 13 |
Creation and Eternity | 19 |
Symbols of Ontological Asymmetry | 24 |
Human Nature | 29 |
To Be under Obligation | 31 |
The Human Condition | 36 |
Orientation and Poise | 39 |
The Causal Effectiveness of Religions | 138 |
Global Modernization and Religious Traditions | 144 |
Maitreyan Strategies | 150 |
Religion and Politics Spheres of Tolerance | 158 |
Obligation and Civil Religion | 162 |
Ultimacy and Religions Essential Features | 164 |
Political Tolerance of Religions | 166 |
Religion and Public Theology | 169 |
Religious Symbols | 45 |
The Reference of Religious Symbols | 52 |
The Interpretation of Religious Symbols | 57 |
The Truth of Religious Symbols | 61 |
The Symbols of Divine Action | 66 |
The Concept of God | 67 |
What Can We Know about God? | 72 |
When Can We Say God Is a Personal Agent? | 77 |
When Should We Not Say God Is a Personal Agent? | 84 |
Eternity and the Transformation of Soul | 88 |
Plotinus and Eternity | 91 |
The Transformation of Soul to Engage Eternity | 95 |
The Engagement of Eternity | 97 |
Eternity Engaged through the Temporal | 100 |
Real and Illusory | 102 |
Eternity and Immortality | 105 |
Religion and Scholarship | 109 |
Recent History of the Study of Religions | 110 |
Participation and Distance in a Typology of the Study of Religions | 115 |
Models of Spirituality among Historically Conscious Scholars | 126 |
Religion and Society | 131 |
World Society World Culture World Community | 132 |
Religion and the American Experiment | 171 |
The American Religious Scene | 172 |
An Hypothesis | 176 |
What Makes Religions Religious | 179 |
Religion and Vital Engagement | 184 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Oversoul | 188 |
The Soul Transformed | 192 |
A Challenge to Modernism | 196 |
The Public Character of Theology and Religious Studies | 203 |
Religions Philosophies and Philosophy of Religion | 217 |
A Definition of Philosophy of Religion | 221 |
The Problematic of Translation and Comparison | 225 |
Comparison Philosophy and Theology | 229 |
A Paleopragmatic Philosophy of the History of Philosophy | 233 |
The Phenomenology Comparison and Lineages of Philosophies | 235 |
Structures Insights Orientation | 239 |
Truth Usability Fallibilism | 242 |
Notes | 249 |
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Gottesinstinkt: semiotische Religionstheorie und Pragmatismus Hermann Deuser Pré-visualização limitada - 2004 |