| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
exploring spirituality from the outside in and bottom up |
| 作者: |
GrassieWilliam, 1957- |
| 其他團體作者: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| 出版地: |
New York |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2010 |
| 版本: |
1st ed. |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (xii, 272 p.)ill. : |
| 標題: |
Religion - Study and teaching. - |
| 標題: |
Religion and science. - |
| 標題: |
Religion. - |
| 標題: |
RELIGION - Christianity - |
| 標題: |
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT - Gaia & Earth Energies. - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230114746An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
The New Sciences of Religion is a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena. William Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the "outside in" and the "bottom up" without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions. Using insights from economics, evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, and medicine, Grassie develops a complex and multifaceted understanding of religion as potentially functional and dysfunctional in specific contexts, differentially so for individuals and groups. The New Sciences of Religion then asks what in religion and spirituality might also be true and profound when our received traditions are reinterpreted in light of contemporary sciences. In contrast to the New Atheists, Grassie argues for a concept of God-by-whatever-clme that is fully compatible with contemporary science and the reinterpretation of traditional religions. In the end, there is no grand unified theory of religion and none of the many scientific explanations of religion preclude that religions have intuited, experienced, and discovered true and profound insights into the nature of ultimate reality and human existence. This is an original and compelling scientific interpretation of religion and also a religious interpretation of science that will challenge and delight students and scholars alike. |
| ISBN: |
9780230114746electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230114741electronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
The challenge of comparative religion The old sciences of religion The economics of religion The evolution of religion The neurosciences of religion The medicine of religion The narratives of religion The new religion of science God-by-whatever-clme Reiterations and reflections. |