Overview
- Fresh view on the science vs. religion debate
- Takes an analytic approach to humanism, philosophy, and religion
- Uses research in psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology
Part of the book series: Studies in Humanism and Atheism (SHA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In the human quest for orientation vis-à-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role. Yet it is the ordinary, embodied experience of meaningful engagement with reality in which all these cultural activities are rooted.
Human beings have to relate themselves to the entirety of their lives to achieve orientation. This relation involves a non-methodical, meaningful experience that exhibits the crucial features for understanding worldviews: it comprises cognition, volition, and emotion, is embodied, action-oriented, and expressive. From this starting-point, religious and secular worldviews articulate what is experienced as ultimately meaningful. Yet the plurality and one-sidedness of these life stances necessitates critical engagement for which philosophy provides indispensable means. In the end, some worldviews can be ruled out, but we are still left with a plurality of genuine options for orientation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science, Humanism, and Religion
Book Subtitle: The Quest for Orientation
Authors: Matthias Jung
Series Title: Studies in Humanism and Atheism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21492-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21491-3Published: 09 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21494-4Published: 09 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21492-0Published: 26 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6656
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6664
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Humanism, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion