9788189833084 - religion and the human prospect von alexander saxton (2 Ergebnisse)
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Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Acknowledgments. 1. The human condition. I. Religion as an object of study 2. Homo religious. 3. Tylor's definition and the social science stance. II. Religion and cultural evolution 4. The crisis of consciousness. 5. Morality gender and class. 6. The evil empire. 7. The problem of evil.… III. Religion and the will to believe 8. Promethean readings. 9. Theodicy. 10. Empiricizing the spiritual. 11. Marxism and the failed critique of religion. 12. High tide at Dover Beach. IV. Knowing and believing 13. The great Lizard Analogy. 14. JeruSalem. Since September 11 2001 religion has been at the center of debates about the global future. Religion and the Human Prospect relates these issues systematically to a path breaking interpretation of the history of religion its part in human development and its potential role in preventing or enabling global catastrophe. Religion has made possible critical transitions in the emergence and development of human society. At the moment when our humanoid ancestors became aware of the inevitability of death religion interposed the belief in spiritual beings who gave it new significance. When individual self interest and collective survival conflicted religion defended collective survival by codifying its requirements as morality. When inequalities of wealth and power developed religion extended moral codes to include obligations of dominance and submission. Religion enabled a species facing constant hunger and scarcity to adapt and spread. Today however facing ecological disaster exhaustion of essential natural resources and the proliferation of nuclear chemical and biological weapons religion no longer provides a collective defense mechanism for the human species. Instead the solutions it has provided have now become central to the problem of human survival. This magisterial and compelling work weaves together evolutionary theory anthropology reflection on theological treatments of the problem of evil and ideas from literature and philosophy into an account of the human prospect that is truly epic in its ambition and explanatory power. 240 pp.
