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Science and Religious Anthropology

A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life

By: Dr Wesley J Wildman

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Science and Religious Anthropology

A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life

By: Dr Wesley J Wildman

Science and Religious Anthropology explores the convergence of the biological sciences, human sciences, and humanities around a spiritually evocative, naturalistic vision of human life. The disciplinary contributions are at different levels of complexity, from evolution of brains to existential longings, and from embodied sociality to ecosystem habitat. The resulting interpretation of the human condition supports some aspects of traditional theological thinking in the world's religious traditions while seriously challenging other aspects. Wesley Wildman draws out these implications for philosophical and religious anthropology and argues that the modern secular interpretation of humanity is most compatible with a religious form of naturalistic humanism. This book resists the reduction of meaning and value questions while taking scientific theories about human life with full seriousness. It argues for a religious interpretation of human beings as bodily creatures emerging within a natural environment that permits engagement with the valuational potentials of reality. This engagement promotes socially borne spiritual quests to realize and harmonize values in everything human beings do, from the forging of cultures to the crafting of personal convictions.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409478351

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9781409478355

Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion

Religion Explained?

By: Dr Aku Visala

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Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion

Religion Explained?

By: Dr Aku Visala

This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution and cognition of religion has been driven by and interpreted in terms of a certain kind of philosophical and methodological naturalism. The book argues that such naturalism is not necessary for the cognitive study of religion and develops an alternative philosophical and methodological framework. This alternative framework opens the cognitive study of religion to theological and philosophical considerations and clarifies its relationship to other approaches to religious phenomena. This unique contribution to discussions regarding the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive study of religion summarizes the so far fragmentary discussion, exposes its underlying assumptions, and develops a novel framework for further discussion.

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240

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481557

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9781409481553

Piety and Responsibility

Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika

By: Dr John N Sheveland

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Piety and Responsibility

Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika

By: Dr John N Sheveland

This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "piety" and "responsibility" as integral to each other. Each theologian expresses a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbour. Sheveland explores this unity in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks, showing how these authors privilege theology as practice, enactment, or simply as ethical. He uses the Renaissance genre of musical polyphony as a methodological tool by which to explore the aesthetic quality and the similarity-in-difference of the theological voices being compared. Polyphony's application to comparative theology includes the avoidance of caricature, domestication, and antagonism. In place of these is offered a fundamentally aesthetic paradigm by which to hear theological voices in terms of their unity-in-distinction.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481441

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The Future of Reason, Science and Faith

Following Modernity and Post-Modernity

By: Revd Dr J Andrew Kirk

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The Future of Reason, Science and Faith

Following Modernity and Post-Modernity

By: Revd Dr J Andrew Kirk

Focusing on the history of ideas, this book explores important questions concerning knowledge in relation to philosophy, science, ethics and Christian faith. Kirk contributes to the current debate about the intellectual basis and integrity of Western culture, exploring controversial issues concerning the notions of modernity and post-modernity. Repositioning the Christian faith as a valid dialogue partner with contemporary secular movements in philosophy and ethics, Kirk seeks to show that in 'post-Christian' Europe the Christian faith still possesses intellectual resources worthy to be reckoned with. This book's principal argument is that contemporary Western society faces a cultural crisis. It explores what appears to be an historical enigma, namely the question of why Western intellectual endeavours in philosophy and science seem to have abandoned the search for a source of knowledge able to draw together disparate pieces of information provided by different disciplines. Kirk draws conclusions, particularly in the area of ethical decision-making, from this apparent failure and invites readers to consider Christian theism afresh as a means for the renewal of culture and society.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140947738X

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9781409477389

Cyborg Selves

A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman

By: Dr Jeanine Thweatt-Bates

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Cyborg Selves

A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman

By: Dr Jeanine Thweatt-Bates

What is the 'posthuman'? Is becoming posthuman inevitable-something which will happen to us, or something we will do to ourselves? Why do some long for it, while others fearfully reject it? These questions underscore the fact that the posthuman is a name for the unknown future, and therefore, not a single idea but a jumble of competing visions - some of which may be exciting, some of which may be frightening, and which is which depends on who you are, and what you desire to be. This book aims to clarify current theological and philosophical dialogue on the posthuman by arguing that theologians must pay attention to which form of the posthuman they are engaging, and to demonstrate that a 'posthuman theology' is not only possible, but desirable, when the vision of the posthuman is one which coincides with a theological vision of the human.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481832

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9781409481836

Pictorial Art for Interreligious Dialogue

A handbook for teaching and learning interreligious dialogue through pictorial art

By: Dr Christopher Longhurst

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Pictorial Art for Interreligious Dialogue

A handbook for teaching and learning interreligious dialogue through pictorial art

By: Dr Christopher Longhurst

We all understand the importance of constructive dialogue between people of diverse religions, and we can all appreciate the enjoyment received from viewing pictorial art. What, therefore, does the use of pictorial art for interreligious dialogue look like? PICTORIAL ART FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE, commissioned by the 2020 International Fellows Programme of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID), explores the unique usage of pictorial art to undertake interreligious dialogue. It presents a practical guide to help educators learn and teach an effective and enjoyable interreligious dialogue within their academic settings. This book offers an alternative to prevailing approaches to interreligious dialogue through its Structured Arts-based Educational Dialogue (SAED). The SAED approach will transform pictorial art into a channel for dialogue through the artwork’s form, content, and subject matter, serving as speaking points in the dialogical process informing the life experiences and religious ideas of the dialogue partners. Herein lies a new power for interreligious dialogue, to know and love the religious other through a mediated, personal and arts-based dialogical approach.

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Vivid Publishing

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1922565784

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The Public Interest, Pornography, & the Fcc Leadership Dynamic

By: Dr. J. Anthony Snorgrass

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The Public Interest, Pornography, & the Fcc Leadership Dynamic

By: Dr. J. Anthony Snorgrass

American broadcast-media policy has been on a pendulum between liberalization and more restrictive regulation since passage of the 1934 Communications Act, which introduced the Fairness Doctrine as a bridge between pubic interest and commercial interest and vetted regulatory authority with a seven-person Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This pendulum-like sway between deregulation and more restrictive government control has been fueled by advances in technology; shifts in the political, ideological, and moral landscape; and by the distrust of government among many U.S. Americans. Much of the FCC citizen input, participation opportunities, and systems are laced with the values, morality, and social fabric of previous generations, responding poorly to the rapid pace of technology and public demands. This is reflected in the FCC practices impacting citizen involvement, the regulation of communications (including the Internet, broadband, news media, the press, and television programming), the promotion, and television programming), the promotion of public-service advertising (PSAs), and shepherding publicly owned platforms, spectrums, and other media products. The book examines the legal, political, and social implications of continuing the practice of allowing broadcasters self-monitored Public Service Broadcasting to satisfy the requirement that radio and television broadcasters serve the public interest. Additionally, the book identifies best practices and benchmarks leading to recommendations intended to improve public-service delivery in support of local community values and the protection of Americas youth.

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iUniverse

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1475938977

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9781475938975

Science and Religious Anthropology

A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life

By: Dr Wesley J Wildman

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Science and Religious Anthropology

A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life

By: Dr Wesley J Wildman

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Book's by Dr Wesley J Wildman

Science and Religious Anthropology

Science and Religious Anthropology

Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion

Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion

Piety and Responsibility

Piety and Responsibility

The Future of Reason, Science and Faith

The Future of Reason, Science and Faith

Cyborg Selves

Cyborg Selves

Pictorial Art for Interreligious Dialogue

Pictorial Art for Interreligious Dialogue

The Public Interest, Pornography, & the Fcc Leadership Dynamic

The Public Interest, Pornography, & the Fcc Leadership Dynamic

Science and Religious Anthropology

Science and Religious Anthropology

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