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    The New Sciences of Religion.William Grassie - 2008 - Zygon 43 (1):127-158.
    Abstract.In this essay I examine the new sciences of religion, spanning the traditional fields such as the psychology, sociology, and anthropology of religion to new fields such as the economics, neurosciences, epidemiology, and evolutionary psychology of religion. The purpose is to welcome these approaches but also delineate some of their philosophical and theological limitations. I argue for pluralistic methodologies in the scientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena. I argue that religious persons and institutions should welcome (...)
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    The new sciences of religion.William Grassie - 2008 - Zygon 43 (1):127-158.
    Abstract.In this essay I examine the new sciences of religion, spanning the traditional fields such as the psychology, sociology, and anthropology of religion to new fields such as the economics, neurosciences, epidemiology, and evolutionary psychology of religion. The purpose is to welcome these approaches but also delineate some of their philosophical and theological limitations. I argue for pluralistic methodologies in the scientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena. I argue that religious persons and institutions should welcome (...)
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    The Impact of Postmodernization on Existential Health in Sweden: Psychology of Religion's Function in Existential Public Health Analysis.Valerie DeMarinis - 2008 - Archive for the Psychology of Religion 30 (1):57-74.
    The article presents a portrait and analysis of the existential-psychocultural situation in postmodern Sweden. Drawing from recent research exploring psychology of religion and existential worldviews, and the Swedish findings from the international World Values Survey, an argument is made for thinking about existential function and dysfunction as public health issues. This is portrayed against the background of Sweden as one of the most secularized countries and simultaneously a country with one of the most encompassing welfare systems. Psychology of (...)'s updated role here would be to take responsibility for identifying and assessing the categories of function and dysfunction for an existential public health system. This role would also include the planning of policy for societal existential wellbeing, as well as planning prevention and intervention efforts for avoiding existential epidemiology. This new role fits well with public health's third revolution agenda focusing on health, wellbeing and quality of life. (shrink)
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  4. Religion as Ligature: On the Binding Character Of Religious Belief.Robert Metcalf - 2013 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 20 (2):38-54.
    An argument found in the writings of the so-called "New Atheists" has it that the religious indoctrination of children is oppressive in and of itself, but this argument rests on what may be called an epidemiological orientation toward belief. While some forms of religious indoctrination may indeed be oppressive, any adequate phenomenology of religious belief must allow for various ways in which individuals relate themselves doxastically to the religion in which they were raised, and some of these ways could (...)
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    Religion as Ligature: On the Binding Character Of Religious Belief.Robert Metcalf - 2013 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 20 (2):38-54.
    An argument found in the writings of the so-called "New Atheists" has it that the religious indoctrination of children is oppressive in and of itself, but this argument rests on what may be called an epidemiological orientation toward belief. While some forms of religious indoctrination may indeed be oppressive, any adequate phenomenology of religious belief must allow for various ways in which individuals relate themselves doxastically to the religion in which they were raised, and some of these ways could (...)
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    The Routledge handbook of evolutionary approaches to religion.Yair Lior & Justin E. Lane (eds.) - 2023 - New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
    The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion. The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting and emerging field. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook pulls together scholarship in the following areas: evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR), cultural evolution and the complementarity of evolutionary psychology, (...)
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    the limits of the medical model: Historical epidemiology of intellectual disability in the united states Jeffrey P. Brosco.Historical Epidemiology Of Intellectual - 2010 - In Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell.
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    On McCauley's why religion is natural and science is not: Some further observations.Gregory R. Peterson - 2014 - Zygon 49 (3):716-727.
    Robert McCauley's Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not provides a summary interpretive statement of the standard model in cognitive science of religion, what I have previously called the HADD + ToM + Cultural Epidemiology model, along with a more general argument comparing religious cognition to scientific thinking and a novel framework for understanding both in terms of the concept of the maturationally natural. I here follow up on some observations made in a previous paper, developing (...)
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    Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition.Livia Kohn & PhD Associate Professor of Religion Livia Kohn - 1992 - Princeton University Press.
    Did Chinese mysticism vanish after its first appearance in ancient Taoist philosophy, to surface only after a thousand years had passed, when the Chinese had adapted Buddhism to their own culture? This first integrated survey of the mystical dimension of Taoism disputes the commonly accepted idea of such a hiatus. Covering the period from the Daode jing to the end of the Tang, Livia Kohn reveals an often misunderstood Chinese mystical tradition that continued through the ages. Influenced by but ultimately (...)
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    Existence and Utopia: The Social and Political Thought of Martin Buber.Bernard Susser & Professor of Religion and Political Science Bernard Susser - 1981
    The only complete study of Buber as a political thinker. Shed new light upon Buber's I Thou, while also attempting to understand Buber's Zionist thought and activity in a new and fresh manner.
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    Spinoza and Judaism: Focusing on his critique of religion in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. 김은주 - 2021 - Cheolhak-Korean Journal of Philosophy 149:57-88.
    ‘배교자’에서 시작하여 ‘최초의 근대적 유대인’, 심지어 ‘시오니즘의 선구자’에 이르기까지, 유대인 스피노자는 역사 속에서 다양한 형상 아래 평가되어 왔다. 이 다양한 평가들의 바탕에는 신학정치론의 대부분을 차지하는 유대교 분석이 있다. 이 글에서 나는 스피노자의 유대교 분석의 목표가 무엇인지를 분명히하는 가운데 유대교에 대한 그의 입장을 밝히고자 한다. 스피노자는 우선 당대나 후대의 ‘반유대주의’의 모든 논거를 제시했다고 평가될 만큼, 예언, 선민사상, 의례 등 유대교의 특수성을 이루는 요소들에 대해 실로 가차없는 비판을 가하고 있다. 이 비판은 유대교를 폄하하고 기독교를 편드는 것으로, 혹은 종교 일반을 철학(이성)이나 자유주의 정치에 (...)
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    Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies.Richard Saville-Smith - 2023 - London: Bloomsbury Advances in Religio.
    How do we explain the coincidence of religion and madness in which prophets, founders of religions and great saints often show symptoms of an excitability that is extreme and even pathological? This book attempts to address this phenomenological problem. Richard Saville-Smith argues that 'acute religious experiences' provides a novel category to the study of the non-rational. This book provides an epidemiological approach to a crisis, which is non-veridical and non-reductionist, recognizing a predisposition due to gene variation as a perennial (...)
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    Fellini's Crowds and the Remains of Religion.Andrew Mckenna - 2005 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 12 (1):159-182.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Fellini's Crowds and the Remains of ReligionAndrew Mckenna (bio)The fascist parade in Federico Fellini's Amarcord enables us to take the measure of the director's analytic and inteve genius. It begins amid swirls of dust and smoke emanating from the town train station, as if attributing the successful spread of Italian fascism to a failure of perception. The party is, as the saying goes, blowing smoke in our face, producing (...)
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    Benjamin Tilghman. Wprowadzenie w filozofię religii [An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion].Janusz Salamon - 1970 - Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 5 (1):276-281.
    Rezultaty badan filozofów religii związanych z nurtem analitycznym są w naszym kraju mało znane, w każdym razie znacznie mniej, niż na to zasługują. Tłumaczenia prac zaliczanych już do klasyki w tej dziedzinie badan filozoficznych można policzyć na palcach jednej ręki. Są to następujące pozycje: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Uwagi o religii i etyce; John L. Mackie, Cud teizmu; John Hick, Argumenty za istnieniem Boga; Alvin C. Plantinga, Bóg, wolność, zło; Richard Swinburne, Spójność teizmu, oraz cenna antologia ważniejszych esejów wydana w serii: Fragmenty (...)
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    Perché non possiamo pensare qualsiasi cosa (ma possiamo pensarne tante). La religione come studio di caso.Cristina Meini - 2009 - Rivista di Estetica 42:55-70.
    The present essays tries to point out limits and constraints on our thought faculty. To this purpose it tackles, on the one hand, evolutionary psychology, and on the other massive modularity, construed as both consistent with evolutionary psychology and experimentally supported. We apply the results to an analysis of the development and epidemiology of religious belief.
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    Isolating the individual: Theology, the evolution of religion, and the problem of abstract individualism.Léon Turner - 2020 - Zygon 55 (1):207-228.
    Debates about the theological implications of recent research in the cognitive and evolutionary study of religion have tended to focus on the question of theism. The question of whether there is any disagreement about the conceptualization of the individual human being has been largely overlooked. In this article, I argue that evolutionary and cognitive accounts of religion typically depend upon a view of cognition that conceptually isolates the mind from its particular social and physical environmental contexts. By embracing (...)
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    Sexual selection and religion: Can the evolution of religion be explained in terms of mating strategies?James A. Van Slyke & Konrad Szocik - 2020 - Archive for the Psychology of Religion 42 (1):123-141.
    This article considers the application of sexual selection theory to the study of religion by discussing the basic concepts and theories in sexual selection and then outlines possibilities of its application to the study of the evolution of religion. The first section outlines basic principles in the sexual selection account, including the evolution of human mating strategies based on dimorphism, gender differences in human mating strategies, and the role of different cultural activities in mating dynamics. Such an overview (...)
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    An axiomatic study of God: a defence of the rationality of religion.Paul Weingartner - 2021 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    The series offers a publication forum for innovative works on all topics of analytic philosophy. The focus is on the disciplines of theoretical philosophy: metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language, logic. Furthermore, works that additionally include contributions to the history of philosophy are also welcome.
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  19. Philosophy of Religion and Theology, 1972 Working Papers Read to the Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, 1972.David Ray Griffin & American Academy of Religion - 1972 - American Academy of Religion.
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  20. Philosophy of Religion and Theology: 1971.David Ray Griffin & American Academy of Religion - 1971 - American Academy of Religion.
     
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    Critical remarks on the cognitive science of religion.Konrad Szocik - 2020 - Zygon 55 (1):157-184.
    Cognitive explanations of religious beliefs propose an evolutionary past in which humans had to possess certain cognitive adaptations to survive. The aim of this article is to show that some cognitive accounts may overvalue the putative role of cognition. One such cognitive idea is an assumption that cognition has been evolutionarily shaped only, or most importantly, in the Pleistocene. This idea seems common among writers on the cognitive science of religion (CSR), but is mistaken. Cognition has been shaped throughout (...)
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    Translating Islam, translating religion: conceptions of religion and Islam in the Aligarh Movement.Arian Hopf - 2021 - Heidelberg: Xasia eBooks.
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  23. Have a bit of nous : revelation and the psychology of religion.Christopher Knight - 2018 - In Russell Re Manning (ed.), Mutual enrichment between psychology and theology. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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  24. Émile Durkheim and the sociology of religion.Matthias Koenig - 2024 - In Hans Joas & Andreas Pettenkofer (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Emile Durkheim. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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    Possibilities in the critical sociology of religion.Rhys H. Williams & Thomas J. Josephsohn - 2013 - Critical Research on Religion 1 (2):123-128.
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    The Sparks of Randomness, Volume 1: Spermatic Knowledge.Henri Atlan - 2010 - Stanford University Press.
    The Sparks of Randomness, Henri Atlan's magnum opus, develops his whole philosophy with a highly impressive display of knowledge, wisdom, depth, rigor, and intellectual and moral vigor. Atlan founds an ethics adapted to the new power over life that modern scientific knowledge has given us. He holds that the results of science cannot ground any ethical or political truth whatsoever, while human creative activity and the conquest of knowledge are a double-edged sword. This first volume, Spermatic Knowledge, begins with the (...)
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    The prohibition on the construction of minarets in Switzerland vs freedom of religion in Europe: legal, political and social aspects.V. L. Bliznekov - 2017 - Sociology of Power 29 (4):104-126.
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    The philosophy of belief.George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1896 - London,: J. Murray.
    Intuitive theology.--The theology of the Hebrews.--Christian theology.--Christian belief.
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    The religion of the future.Roberto Mangabeira Unger - 2014 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
    "a book about religion and a religious work in its own right, it proposes the content of a religion that can survive faith in a transcendent God and 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."--Publishers website.
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    Implicit religion, Anglican cathedrals, and spiritual wellbeing: The impact of carol services.Leslie J. Francis, Ursula McKenna & Francis Stewart - 2024 - HTS Theological Studies 80 (1):9.
    Rooted in the field of cathedral studies, this paper draws into dialogue three bodies of knowledge: Edward Bailey’s notion of implicit religion that, among other things, highlights the continuing traction of the Christian tradition and Christian practice within secular societies; David Walker’s notion of the multiple ways through which in secular societies people may relate to the Christian tradition as embodied within the Anglican Church and John Fisher’s notion of spiritual wellbeing as conceptualised in relational terms. Against this conceptual (...)
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  31. Self or No-Self? The Debate about Selflessness and the Sense of Self. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2015.W. Ezekiel Goggin (ed.) - 2017
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  32. Believing and belonging : the impact of religion for "Muslim" adolescents in a pluralistic society : empirical findings from Hamburg, Germany.Ursula Günther - 2012 - In Abdou Filali-Ansary & Aziz Esmail (eds.), The construction of belief: reflections on the thought of Mohammed Arkoun. London: Saqi Books in association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
     
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  33. A Short Study on Spinoza's View of Religion.İbrahim Okan Akkın - 2018 - In Roman Dorczak, Christian Ruggiero, Regina-Lenart Gansiniec & M. Ali Icbay (eds.), Research and Development on Social Sciences. Jagiellonian University. pp. 225-232.
    It is a matter of philosophical debate whether Jonathan Israel’s assessment of Spinoza’s notion of ‘state religion’ can be interpreted as an atheistic and Marxist reading of Spinoza. Contrary to the widely accepted view, Spinoza has a peculiar understanding of religion; and thus, his views cannot, simply, be equated with atheism. By relying on this fact, in this article, I am going to shed light on the issue and try to show to what extent Israel’s interpretation goes beyond (...)
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    : Neuromatic; or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain.Steve Fuller - 2024 - Isis 115 (1):176-177.
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    The Sparks of Randomness, Volume 1: Spermatic Knowledge.Lenn Schramm (ed.) - 2010 - Stanford University Press.
    _The Sparks of Randomness_, Henri Atlan's magnum opus, develops his whole philosophy with a highly impressive display of knowledge, wisdom, depth, rigor, and intellectual and moral vigor. Atlan founds an ethics adapted to the new power over life that modern scientific knowledge has given us. He holds that the _results_ of science cannot ground any ethical or political truth whatsoever, while human creative activity and the conquest of knowledge are a double-edged sword. This first volume, _Spermatic Knowledge_, begins with the (...)
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    On Lightner & Hagen’s Bias/Variance Intellectualism in the Theory of Religion.Martin Stehberger - 2024 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 24 (1-2):121-125.
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  37. The cognitive science of religion: Implications for theism?David Leech & Aku Visala - 2011 - Zygon 46 (1):47-64.
    Abstract. Although the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR), a current approach to the scientific study of religion, has exerted an influence in the study of religion for almost twenty years, the question of its compatibility or incompatibility with theism has not been the subject of serious discussion until recently. Some critics of religion have taken a lively interest in the CSR because they see it as useful in explaining why religious believers consistently make costly commitments to (...)
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    History of Epidemics: A Bibliographical Essay on Secondary Sources in Italian and on Italy.Maria Conforti - 2023 - Isis 114 (S1):533-553.
    Italian medical history in the age of positivism showed a strong interest in epidemics. This can be seen in Alfonso Corradi’s monumental Annali (1865-1895) and in works of other 19th-century historians who addressed major public health issues in the newly unified country. Local history was also widely practiced in Italy, and it was instrumental in discovering and publishing a wealth of documentation on past epidemic and endemic diseases, as well as on measures such as quarantines that were invented or introduced (...)
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    The Evolution of Religion.Edward Caird.R. Adamson - 1893 - International Journal of Ethics 4 (1):101-111.
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  40. The Orthodox Foundation of Religion Long Since Collected by That Iudicious and Elegant Man, Mr. Henry Ainsworth, for the Benefit of His Private Company, and Now Divulged for the Publike Good of All That Desire to Know That Cornerstone, Christ Jesus Crucified.Henry Ainsworth & W. S. - 1641 - Printed by R.C. For M. Sparke, Junior.
     
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    3 Philosophy of Religion as a Social Phenomenon.Lars Albinus - 2016 - In Religion as a Philosophical Matter: Concerns About Truth, Name, and Habitation. Warsaw: De Gruyter Open. pp. 47-60.
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    Problems of axiomatizing religion.Paul Weingartner - 2021 - Studies in East European Thought 74 (2):149-163.
    The paper discusses problems which arise in attempts to axiomatize parts of religion or religious belief systems. Besides those problems already investigated by Bochenski, like that of the propositional content or the meaning of religious discourse there are several further ones. This paper deals with the question whether full Classical Logic is suitable, whether one universe of discourse is sufficient, how to use definitions and analogous concepts and whether justifications satisfy credibility criteria.
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    Epidemiology of Fallacies.Antonio Duarte - forthcoming - Argumentation:1-19.
    In this paper I apply the epidemiological model of the spread of beliefs and how they become cultural representations to the field of fallacies. The model suggests that beliefs tend to replicate as a virus does in a potential epidemic, and those strains that are dominant in a given socio-cultural sphere become cultural representations. My ultimate aim is to denounce the fact that some presumptive argumentation schemes are widely applied as definitive arguments, but turn out to be instances of common (...)
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    Psychology vs Religion: How Deep is the Cliff Really? Traces of Religion in Psychotherapy.Zuhâl Ağılkaya Şahin - 2018 - Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi 22 (3):1607-1632.
    Since the emergence of psychology, its relation with religion has been inconsistent. Their different sources and methodologies but common aims made them close or distanced. Today these disciplines acknowledged and learned to benefit from each other. The affect of religion/spirituality on human’s lives raised the attention of psychology and required the integration of these into psychotherapy. In order to approach the psychology-religion relation via the traces of religion within psychotherapy the paper deals with the necessity, the (...)
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    A companion to philosophy of religion.Philip L. Quinn & Charles Taliaferro - 1996 - In Dennis M. Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory. Blackwell. pp. 53-63.
    In 85 new and updated essays, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. Includes contributions from established philosophers and rising stars 22 new entries have now been added, and all material from the previous edition has been updated and reorganized Broad coverage spans the areas of world religions, theism, atheism,, the problem of evil, science and religion, and ethics.
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    Civil Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness from Machiavelli to Italian Theory.Miguel Vatter - 2019 - Giornale Critico di Storia Delle Idee 1:73-88.
    In this article I propose a conception of “civil religion” to bridge the tension between immanence and transcendence that has characterized Italian Theory to date. This tension is due to the two central components of Italian Theory, namely, the discourse on biopolitics and the discourse on political theology. In what follows I argue that this conception of “civil religion” originates with Machiavelli and is functional to his vision of democratic constitutionalism. I propose a new genealogy of this conception (...)
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    The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science.Zachary Simpson (ed.) - 2008 - Oxford University Press.
    The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts yet accessible to the general reader.
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    The future of religion and the religion of the future.Jan van der Veken - 2003 - Bijdragen 64 (2):129-143.
    This article concentrates on a number of publications such as Marcel Gauchet, Le Désenchantement du monde. Une histoire politique de la religion, Paris, Gallimard 1984. Luc Ferry, L'homme-Dieu ou le sens de la vie , Gianni Vattimo, Credere di credere, Garanti Editore 1996. Gabriel Ringlet, Evangile d’un libre penseur. Dieu serait-il laïque? Paris, Albin Michel 1998. All these books are concerned with the theme of secularization. Gauchet's eminal book sees Christianity as “the religion of the exit of (...)”. This means that Christianity itself has been the main influence in changing the very relationship between the Infinite and the finite, between God and the world. In stressing the divine Transcendence, the world becomes fully autonomous. Ferry recognizes the impact of Christianity on contemporary culture. Christianity is not just the religion of the incarnation of God; it is also the religion of the divinization of man. According to Ferry, contemporary humanism has many transcendental traits which are derived from its roots in Christianity. The author thinks that there is large support for the idea that Christianity and contemporary humanism are not so opposed to oneanother as many have thought. It might rather be the case that those two phenomena are sides of the same coin, at a different period of critical awareness. It would follow from this that religion can only survive if it takes far more seriously the challenges addressed by it by contemporary humanism, and starts to see in it not so much its opposite as its ally. All this is the result of a major shift in the very meaning of the word “God” in Christianity as the religion of the Incarnation. (shrink)
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    The Place of Phenomenology of Religion in Relation to Theology.Jan Van Wiele - 2000 - Bijdragen 61 (3):261-284.
    In the field of theology, the comparative study of religions has exhibited growing interest in recent years. For this reason, more than ever, the moment seems right for a critical reflection on the status of comparative religious science as an autonomous discipline and on its relation to theology. At present, a consensus is growing among many – although seldom formally confirmed this tacitly remains, nevertheless, the ruling fundamental orientation – that the comparative study of religions, along with the scientific study (...)
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    Continental philosophy of religion.Merold Westphal - 2005 - In William J. Wainwright (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of religion. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 472--93.
    A triple sampling of the rich diversity of philosophical reflection on religion and on the relation of philosophy to religion within “continental” traditions. The first part explores three accounts of the relation of phenomenology to religion as presented by Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Marion. The second part explores Heidegger’s critique of metaphysics in its onto-theological constitution with detailed attention to just what he means by this notion and with special reference to the religious and theological motivations one might (...)
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