LEADER 05798nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910816624403321 005 20240410155005.0 010 $a1-283-01223-5 010 $a9786613012234 010 $a1-907343-23-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079696 035 $a(OCoLC)707099164 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10451050 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000569078 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11395905 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000569078 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10536762 035 $a(PQKB)10634716 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007754 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079696 100 $a20150424d2011|||| s|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFuture of Post-Human Religion : A Preface to a New Theory of Spirituality$b[electronic resource] 210 $aCambridge, GBR$cCambridge International Science Publishing$d20110101 210 $cCambridge International Science Publishing 215 $a1 online resource (517 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a9781907353223 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $aShamanism, 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. 327 $aF -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. 606 $aSCIENCE$2bisac 606 $aGeneral$2bisac 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy 606 $aSpirituality 606 $aHoly, The 606 $aReligion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 606 $aChristianity$2HILCC 606 $aReligion - General$2HILCC 615 7$aSCIENCE 615 7$aGeneral 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy 615 0$aSpirituality 615 0$aHoly, The 615 7$aReligion 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 615 7$aChristianity 615 7$aReligion - General 676 $a200 700 $aBaofu$b Peter$01611821 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816624403321 996 $aFuture of Post-Human Religion : A Preface to a New Theory of Spirituality$93949878 997 $aUNINA