Religion in late modernity [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Cummings Neville

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813202103321
• Autore: Neville Robert C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002
• ISBN: 0-7914-8825-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 200/.9/051
• Soggetti: Philosophical theology; Religion - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Religion in Late Modernity -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Contingencies of Nature -- Nature Defined -- Cosmological Contingency: Determinateness and Time's Flow -- Ontological Contingency: Creation and Eternity -- Symbols of Ontological Asymmetry -- 2. Human Nature -- Defining Human Nature -- To Be under Obligation -- The Human Condition -- Orientation and Poise -- 3. Religious Symbols -- Symbolic Meaning and Religion -- The Reference of Religious Symbols -- The Interpretation of Religious Symbols -- The Truth of Religious Symbols -- 4. The Symbols of Divine Action -- The Concept of God -- What Can We Know about God? -- When Can We Say God Is a Personal Agent? -- When Should We Not Say God Is a Personal Agent? -- 5. Eternity and the Transformation of Soul -- Eternity as a Contemporary Problem -- Plotinus and Eternity -- The Transformation of Soul to Engage Eternity -- The Engagement of Eternity -- Eternity Engaged through the Temporal -- Eternity in Time: Real and Illusory -- Eternity and Immortality -- 6. Religion and Scholarship -- Recent History of the Study of Religions -- Participation and Distance in a Typology of the Study of Religions -- Models of Spirituality among Historically Conscious Scholars -- 7. Religion and Society -- World Society, World Culture, World Community -- The Causal Effectiveness of Religions -- Global Modernization and Religious Traditions -- Maitreyan Strategies -- 8. Religion and Politics: Spheres of Tolerance -- Religious Wars and the Alleged Privacy of Religion -- ; Obligation and Civil Religion -- Ultimacy and Religions' Essential Features -- Political Tolerance of Religions -- Religion and Public Theology -- 9. Religion and the American Experiment -- The American Religious Scene -- The Experiment: An Hypothesis -- What Makes Religions Religious -- 10. Religion and Vital Engagement.; Engagement and Competence -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Oversoul -- The Soul Transformed -- Emerson, Nietzsche, and Jesus: A Challenge to Modernism -- 11. The Public Character ofTheology and Religious Studies -- 12. Religions, Philosophies,and Philosophy of Religion -- The Impact of Scholarship on Philosophy of Religion -- A Definition of Philosophy of Religion -- The Problematic of Translation and Comparison -- Comparison, Philosophy, and Theology -- 13. A Paleopragmatic Philosophy ofthe History of Philosophy -- Paleopragmatism -- Signs: The Phenomenology, Comparison, and Lineages of Philosophies -- Phenomenology of Philosophy -- Comparative Philosophy -- Philosophical Influences -- Philosophies as Referents: Structures, Insights, Orientation -- Philosophic Conceptual Structures as Icons -- Philosophies as Indices -- Philosophies as Conventional Orientations of Life: Symbolic Reference -- Philosophies as Interpretive Engagements:Truth, Usability, Fallibilism -- Philosophies as True or False in Their Contexts -- Historical Philosophies as Contemporary Resources -- Historical Philosophies as Correctives -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: A well-known theologian and philosopher offers a late-modern perspective on religion, one opposed to the received truths of postmodern religious thought.