Future of Post-Human Religion : A Preface to a New Theory of Spirituality

• Autore: Baofu Peter
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, GBR, : Cambridge International Science Publishing, 20110101; Cambridge International Science Publishing
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (517 p.)
• Disciplina: 200
• Soggetto topico: SCIENCE; General; Religion - Philosophy; Spirituality; Holy, The; Religion; Philosophy & Religion; Christianity; Religion - General
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book describes the contributions of women in an Egyptian community to subsistence activities and handicrafts production, and the changes in labour processes which increasingly push women into less rewarding forms of work. Emphasis is placed on the ways in which women's work is related to child-bearing and rearing, and on the significance of children's work for increased productivity.; The authors show the need for further investigation into the nature of relations within domestic groups if domestic power processes are to be better understood, and the links with divisions of labour, resource allocation, fertility levels and the acceptance of family planning.
• Titolo autorizzato: Future of Post-Human Religion : A Preface to a New Theory of Spirituality
• ISBN: 1-283-01223-5; 9786613012234; 1-907343-23-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973837203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II