Future of Post-Human Religion : A Preface to a New Theory of Spirituality [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816624403321
• Autore: Baofu Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, GBR, : Cambridge International Science Publishing, 20110101; Cambridge International Science Publishing
• ISBN: 1-283-01223-5; 9786613012234; 1-907343-23-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (517 p.)
• Disciplina: 200
• Soggetti: SCIENCE; General; Religion - Philosophy; Spirituality; Holy, The; Religion; Philosophy & Religion; Christianity; Religion - General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Part One: Introduction -- Part Two: Sacredness -- Part Three: Secularness -- Part Four: Conclusion -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION - THE AWE OF RELIGION -- The Secular Underestimation of Religion -- Religious Studies vs. Theology -- Religious Studies -- Theology -- Religion vs. Spirituality -- Religion -- Spirituality -- Religion and Supernatural Reality -- Monotheism vs. Polytheism -- Pantheism vs. Deism vs. Panentheism -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Theistic Argument -- The Skeptical Argument -- The Critical Argument -- The Comparative-Substitutive ; Argument -- The Comparative-Substitutive Theory of Religion -- Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples -- Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis -- Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations -- The Use of Neologisms -- PART TWO Sacredness -- CHAPTER 2. SACREDNESS AND ITS LIMITS -- The Importance of Sacredness -- Sacredness and the Mind -- Faith, Reason, and Religion -- Magical Thinking, and Religion -- Sacredness and Nature -- Religious Cosmology, and the Teleological Argument -- Evolutionary Theory, and Religion -- Sacredness and Society -- Religious Conversion, and the Politics of Rights -- New Religious Movements, and the Sociology of Religion -- Sacredness and Culture.; Shamanism, the Outer-World, and the Role of Culture -- Animism, the Spirits, and Cultural Traditions -- The Limitation of Sacredness -- PART THREE Secularness -- CHAPTER 3. SECULARNESS AND ITS FAULTS -- The Promise of Secularness -- Secularness and the Mind -- Mental Delusion, and the Secular Origin of Religions -- Power Drive, Developmental Stages, and the Search for Faith -- Secularness and Nature -- Evolutionary Biology, and the Debate on Creation in Religion -- Heliocentrism, and Its Conflict with Organized Religion -- Secularness and Society -- Religion, and the Challenge of Secularization -- Religion, and the Politics of Antireligion -- Secularness and Culture -- The Anti-Christian, and the Quest for Life Affirmation -- Philosophy of Religion, and Its Critical Questions for Religion -- The Pitfall of Secularness -- PART FOUR Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION - THE FUTURE OF RELIGION -- Beyond Sacredness and Secularness -- Other Relevant Principles -- 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle -- 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle -- 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle -- 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle -- 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle -- 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle -- 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle -- 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle -- 9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle -- 10th Thesis: The Convention-Novelty Principle -- 11th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle -- 12th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle -- 13th Thesis: The Softness-Hardness Principle -- 14th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle -- 15th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle -- 16th Thesis: The Post-Human Substitution -- Towards the Higher Spirituality -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 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.