Religion as Orientation and Transformation: A Maximalist Theory
Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: A maximalist theory -- The structure of the book -- Chapter 1: Religions in and beyond philosophy of religion -- The impossibility of a neutral approach to religion -- Challenges for a philosophical approach to religions -- Religion: or...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Religion in Philosophy and Theology
v.90 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Theory
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| RelBib Classification: | FA Theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion
Philosophy
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: Henriksen, Jan-Olav: Religion as Orientation and Transformation : A Maximalist Theory. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck,c2017. - 9783161550980 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: A maximalist theory -- The structure of the book -- Chapter 1: Religions in and beyond philosophy of religion -- The impossibility of a neutral approach to religion -- Challenges for a philosophical approach to religions -- Religion: orientation, transformation and legitimizing of practices -- Chapter 2: Religion as symbolically mediated experience of things set apart -- The world is full of signs: Peirce's semiotic theory -- Semiotics of orientation and religion: Dalferth -- Things we deem religious: Ann Taves -- Chapter 3: Natural religion on new terms? -- The realms of experience -- A maximalist approach: a critical view of CSR explanations of religions -- Natural religion is not natural religion as it used to be -- Schleiermacher as a model for assessing natural religion? -- From explanation to understanding of religion -- Nathaniel Barrett's critique of the computational model -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Religion, Orientation, and Transformation in the Social World -- Woodhead: Different dimensions in religions -- Religion as culture -- Religion as identity -- Religion as relationship -- Religion as practice -- Religion as power -- Implications for a philosophy of religion -- Chapter 5: Religion as experienced in the personal realm: Emotions and Self-psychology -- Heinz Kohut on the Self: Affirmation and idealization as a basis for orientation and transformation -- Orchestrating religious emotions: Ole Riis and Linda Woodhead -- Emotional regimes -- Emotional, embodied experience -- Emotional experience as symbolically mediated -- Transcendence and emotional regimes -- Emotion: Orientation and transformation -- Conclusion -- How religious symbols work: Attachment theory -- The other in the personal realm: Beyond personal boundaries. Chapter 6: The path and its conditions: Change and transformation -- Change and religion -- Historical change and epistemic stability (normativity) -- Philosophy of religions and human evolution: Religion and humanity have unfinished business -- Religion as motion - practices as learning and transformation -- Religions as different types of discourse -- Religion is mediation -- A pragmatic concept of religious knowledge -- The relation between O, T, and L in a learning perspective -- Religious learning, experience, and the need for orientation -- Chapter 7: Orientation and Legitimation Rooted in the Past: on Religion as a Chain of Memory -- Tradition and orientation -- Religion as a Chain of Memory -- Chapter 8: On interactions between the physical and the mystical realms of experience -- Schleiermacher: Religion in the interaction between the natural and the personal realm -- From nature to the mystical - reflections on the interaction between realms -- Conclusion: From experience to wisdom: the path revisited -- Chapter 9: Three metaphors for how religions work -- Religion as a virtual home -- Religion as Score and Play -- Chapter 10: Normative considerations: Religions as stewards of Wisdom? -- The Quest for Wisdom -- Basic experiences of the human condition -- A recipe against religious stupidity -- Chapter 11: Conclusions and implications -- The normative outcome -- Implications for a pragmatist view of religion -- Understanding religion in a late modern societal context -- A final note on secularization, detraditionalization, and authority -- Bibliography -- Indexes |
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| ISBN: | 3161550994 |