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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baofu, Peter, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Spirituality.

Holy, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, GBR Cambridge International Science Publishing 20110101

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-283-01223-5

9786613012234

1-907343-23-7

OCLC:

707099164