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Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in our Strange World [Minkštas viršelis]

3.80/5 (5 ratings by Goodreads)
(University of Oxford, UK)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x14 mm, weight: 354 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 16-Dec-2011
  • Leidėjas: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1405189711
  • ISBN-13: 9781405189712
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x14 mm, weight: 354 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 16-Dec-2011
  • Leidėjas: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1405189711
  • ISBN-13: 9781405189712
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Raktažodžiai:
The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices  - Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world views religion is enduring and vividly engages with the mystery of the world - Offers striking arguments about the relationship of religion to science, art and politics - Engagingly written by a highly respected scholar of religion with an international reputation

Recenzijos

Finally, it should be pointed out that the book is well presented, with a wealth of interesting primary sources and secondary literature discussed. . . At any rate, the book should contribute to the ongoing debate between religionists and reductionists within our field.  (Numen, 1 May 2015)

Summing Up: Recommended.  Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.  (Choice, 1 January 2013)

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Religion and the Human Condition 1(36)
Mediating Our Strange World
6(2)
Theories of Religion
8(4)
Religion and Religions
12(2)
Defining Religion
14(3)
The Argument
17(1)
Alienation and the Human Condition
17(6)
The Primacy of Perception and the System of Signs
23(1)
The Invisible and the Transcendent
24(2)
The Truths of Religion
26(1)
Conclusion
27(10)
Part One ACTION
1 Clearing the Ground
37(16)
Reification: The Marxist Legacy
40(4)
Rationalization: The Weberian Legacy
44(2)
Knowledge and Action
46(3)
Methodology
49(1)
Conclusion
50(3)
2 The Meaning of Religious Action
53(27)
The Sociology of Religious Meaning
55(3)
Meaning and Action
58(2)
Moral Acts
60(3)
Ritual and the Body
63(3)
A Rite of Affliction
66(3)
The Meaning of Sacrifice
69(2)
A Phenomenology of Sacrifice
71(2)
The Meanings of Death
73(1)
Conclusion
74(6)
3 The Inner Journey
80(21)
Languages of Spirituality
83(8)
The Spiritual Habitus
91(4)
Conclusion
95(6)
Part Two SPEECH
4 The Reception of the Text
101(14)
Routes to the World of Life
102(4)
Theories of the Text
106(3)
The Reception of Sacred Texts
109(2)
Sacred Text and Act
111(2)
Conclusion
113(2)
5 Tradition, Language, and the Self
115(15)
Linguistic Universals
117(1)
Linguistic Relativity
118(4)
Language and Religious Experience
122(3)
Language as a Model of Religion
125(2)
Conclusion
127(3)
6 Religion and Rationality
130(23)
What is Rationality?
131(8)
Rational Religious Communities
139(2)
Rationality and Cosmology
141(5)
Conclusion
146(7)
Part Three WORLD
7 The Mystery of Complexity and Emergence
153(18)
A History of Antagonism
155(4)
Complexity and Constraint
159(5)
The Ontology of Process
164(2)
Conclusion
166(5)
8 The Union of Nature and Imagination
171(18)
Art and the Real
172(3)
Cosmological Art
175(2)
Pavel Florensky
177(1)
Abhinavagupta
178(2)
Secular Art
180(2)
Re-Spiritualizing Art
182(3)
Conclusion
185(4)
9 Religion and Politics
189(21)
Religion in the Public Sphere
190(5)
The Secular Public Sphere
195(2)
The Traditionalist View
197(3)
Fundamentalism
200(1)
The Religious Citizen
201(4)
Conclusion
205(5)
Summary 210(7)
Epilogue 217(4)
References 221(16)
Index 237
Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford where he is also the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is the author of Introduction to Hinduism (1996) and The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, Tradition (2006); and editor of the Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).