" This is the question posed by Yi-Fu Tuan, the esteemed humanist geographer. In this, his latest book in a long and distinguished career, Tuan turns to this specific challenge, which has been a uniting current in much of his previous work.
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In addition, this book offers a unique and concise coverage of traditional topics of the anthropology of religion such as shamanism and witchcraft (past and present), ritual, myth, religious symbols, and revitalization movements.
Religion: A Humanist Interpretation represents a lifetime's work on the anthropology of religion from a rather unusual personal viewpoint.
Religionless religion thus can come from an abiding religion whose worldviews suffer plausibility problems, with resultant dissociation from religious institutions, or from religion that transcends claims for ultimacy in religious ...
Religion: A Criticism and a Forecast
Religion: A Study in Beauty, Truth, and Goodness covers the wide array of elements, including the concepts of ultimate being, scripture, ritual, morality, and beauty, which make up the fascinating entity known as religion.
This book explores the difficulties and double binds that arise when we ask "What is religion?
Wenz geht davon aus, dass die Spaltung der westlichen Christenheit ein Ereignis mit epochalen Fragen für Begriff und Verständnis von Religion ist.
Treating 'religion' as a fully social, cultural, historical and material field of practice, this book presents a series of debates and positions on the nature and purpose of the 'Study of Religions', or 'Religious Studies'.
It offers a fresh look from different perspectives on the phenomenon of religion; the backgrounds and history of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism; and makes the point that religion is something that should unite us, not ...
Composed of twenty-four thematic chapters, this volume looks at the margins of religion or religious texts and traditions that are not considered authoritative by orthodox communities.
Featuring 57 easy-to-read articles, each focused on a specific aspect of religious belief or practice, the book demonstrates how varied cultures express the relationship between people and the supernatural world....
In addition, this book offers a unique and concise coverage of traditional topics of the anthropology of religion such as shamanism and witchcraft (past and present), ritual, myth, religious symbols, and revitalization movements.
Despite frequent prognostications regarding the 'death of God' and the triumph of secular materialism, religion remains a central component in the lives of most people around the world.
This book is written to help the reader leave that wide road and get on that narrow road so they can know for certain that they will go to heaven when they die
Three of the most important philosophers of our time—Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, and Hans-Georg Gadamer—together with other distinguished thinkers address a wide range of questions about the meaning, status, and future prospects of ...
The volume also includes bibliographies filmographies, images, a glossary, and a comprehensive index, all of which aid the reader in exploring this rich, rewarding, and relevant field.
... Hoffnung als Prinzip des Lebens Hoffnung ist ein geheim wirkendes Prinzip ... Fragil bleibt er allemal in Formen des Lebens und der Kultur. In der ... Religion, DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-02770-4_14 plikation des Lebens auf die Spur zu kommen ...