Bibliographic Information. Religion And Ultimate Well-Being. An Explanatory Theory.
Bibliographic Information. Library of Philosophy and Religion.
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Religion and Ultimate Wellbeing. Christopher A. Callaway - 2011 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 70 (3):231-246. Added to PP index 2015-02-02. Martin Prozesky - 1987 - Religious Studies 23 (2):302-304. The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures. Nicholas Wade - 2009 - Penguin Press. Otto and Numinous Experience. Is Sceptical Religion Adequate as a Religion? Andrew Dole - 2013 - Religious Studies 49 (2):235-248. The Living God: Basal Forms of Personal Religion. Nathan Söderblom - 1933 - American Mathematical Society. Psychology, the Human Sciences, and Religion.
Philosophy of religion is the philosophical examination of the themes and concepts involved in religious traditions as well as the broader philosophical task of reflecting on matters of religious significance including the nature of religion itself, alternative concepts of God or ultimate reality.
Philosophy of religion is the philosophical examination of the themes and concepts involved in religious traditions as well as the broader philosophical task of reflecting on matters of religious significance including the nature of religion itself, alternative concepts of God or ultimate reality, and the religious significance of general features of the cosmos (. the laws of nature, the emergence of consciousness). and of historical events (. the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, the Holocaust).
Sociological and anthropological theories about religion (or theories of religion) generally attempt to explain the origin and function of religion. These theories define what they present as universal characteristics of religious belief and practice. From presocratic times, ancient authors advanced prescientific theories about religion. Herodotus (484 – 425 BCE) saw the gods of Greece as the same as the gods of Egypt.
Philosophy of religion is now a very flourishing branch of philosophy
Philosophy of religion is now a very flourishing branch of philosophy. Thirty years or so ago, specialists in philosophy of religion were a rare breed. But they are now very common, and they publish a lot. Many of them would describe themselves as philosophers of religion. As modem logicians know very well, proving that a thesis is possibly true may be very difficult apart from a study of reasons for believing that the thesis in question is actually true. And proof that a thesis is actually true is proof that the thesis is possibly true. One may therefore consider someone's reasons for believing a thesis without worrying in advance about whether the thesis could possibly be true.
Religion gives humanlike beings a central role in the worldview, while nonreligious .
Religion gives humanlike beings a central role in the worldview, while nonreligious constructs ascribe less importance to such beings. Thus, gods and religion are born! Somewhere along the way anonymous humans (and maybe even pre-humans) formulated theories which were cast as certainties and became dogmas. If you have not read this book, you may have missed a critical underpinning for our understanding of the human invention of religion.
Prozesky, Martin, Religion and Ultimate Well-Being: An Explanatory Theory (London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, 1984). Sharpe, Eric . omparative Religion. A History (London: Duckworth, 1975). Spiro, Melford, ‘Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation’, in Banton, M. Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion (London: Tavistock, 1966). Recommend this journal.