Religion in the Making
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Four Lectures ... delivered in King's Chapel, Boston ... Feburary, 1926.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Four Lectures ... delivered in King's Chapel, Boston ... Feburary, 1926.
Author: John B. Cobb Jr.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2012-11-06
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1621894843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Whitehead had a place for God in his comprehensive cosmological vision, and his theism has long attracted interest from some Christian theologians. But Whitehead's ideas have much wider use. Some Buddhists have found help in articulating their nontheistic vision and relating it to the current world of thought and action. In this book religious writers in seven different traditions articulate how they can benefit from Whitehead's work. So this volume demonstrates that various features of his thought can contribute to many communities. According to his followers, Whitehead shows that the deepest convictions and commitments of the major religious communities can be complementary rather than in conflict. Readers of this book will see how that plays out in some detail. A Whiteheadian Hindu can recognize the truth in a Whiteheadian Judaism, and both can appreciate the insights of Chinese Whiteheadians committed to their classical thinking. Perhaps a new day in interreligious understanding has come.
Author: Alexander Rocklin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2019-02-07
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1469648725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together—under the watchful eyes of the British rulers—to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, summon spirits of the dead, or honor Muslim martyrs, practices that challenged colonial norms for religion and race. Drawing deeply on colonial archives, Alexander Rocklin examines the role of the category of religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian laborers struggling for autonomy. Gradually, Indians learned to narrate the origins, similarities, and differences among their fellows' cosmological views, and to define Hindus, Muslims, and Christians as distinct groups. Their goal in doing this work of subaltern comparative religion, as Rocklin puts it, was to avoid criminalization and to have their rituals authorized as legitimate religion—they wanted nothing less than to gain access to the British promise of religious freedom. With the indenture system's end, the culmination of this politics of recognition was the gradual transformation of Hindus' rituals and the reorganization of their lives—they fabricated a "world religion" called Hinduism.
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The modern Science of the History of Religion has attained conclusions which already possess an air of being firmly established. These conclusions may be briefly stated thus: Man derived the conception of 'spirit' or 'soul' from his reflections on the phenomena of sleep dreams death shadow and from the experiences of trance and hallucination.
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-11-10
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781707215553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Making of ReligionAs to the earlier part of the book, which deals with the basis of animism in super-normal as well as normal experiences, it is hardly necessary to recommend the study of Mr. F. W. H. Myers' 'human Personality' and the Proceedings and Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.
Author: Markus Dressler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-10-03
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0199782946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates the universalization of religious and secular knowledges that emerged in their particular modern forms originally in the Christian West. It it an attempt to explore the epistemological grounds and political implications of the formation and codependency of 'secular' and 'religious' discourses and practices.
Author: Helge Årsheim
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-07-23
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 3110476592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies, the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international law with a detailed textual study of the reporting practice of the committees monitoring racial discrimination, civil and political rights, women's rights, and children's rights. Årsheim argues that the role of religion within the rights traditions monitored by the committees varies to the extent that their recommendations risk contradicting one another, thereby undermining their credibility and potential to bring about real change on the ground: Where some committees view religion singularly as a core individual right, others see religion partly as an inherent threat to the realization of other rights, but also as a potent social force to be reckoned with. In order to remedy this situation, Årsheim proposes the publication of a joint general comment by all the committees, spelling out their approach to the role of religion in the implementation of human rights.
Author: Yoshiko Ashiwa
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009-03-24
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0804771138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Making Religion, Making the State combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China. The volume goes beyond extant portrayals of the opposition of state and religion to emphasize their mutual constitution. It examines how the modern category of "religion" is enacted and implemented in specific locales and contexts by a variety of actors from the late nineteenth century until the present. With chapters written by experts on Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Daoism, Islam, and more, this volume will appeal across the social sciences and humanities to those interested in politics, religion, and modernity in China.