E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten
Reihe: Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft / Religion, Theology, and Natural Science
Science And The Dissolution Of Religion
E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten
Reihe: Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft / Religion, Theology, and Natural Science
ISBN: 978-3-647-56940-6
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Theologie und die Wissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
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1;Cover;1
2;Title Page
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3;Copyright
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4;Table of Contents
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5;Body
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6;1. Is there such a thing as religion?;10
6.1;The Kant-Darwin Axis;12
6.2;Religions without doctrines;14
6.3;No “religion” in most cultures;15
6.4;Who invented religion?;17
6.5;Religions as brands;21
6.6;Does the study of religion need “religion”?;23
6.7;An uncertain and unnecessary concept;24
7;2. What is natural in religions?;26
7.1;Natural religionasatheory;26
7.2;What is thephenomenon?;27
7.3;The cognitive picture – supernatural concepts;28
7.4;Why are supernatural concepts culturally stable?;31
7.5;The cognitive picture – non-physical agency;33
7.6;Natural religion is not (just) for the primitive Other;36
7.7;Probabilistic, experience-distant model;37
7.8;What makes religious notions culturally viable;38
8;3. Do religions make people better?;42
8.1;Humans are “prosocial”;44
8.2;Apparently, morality could not possibly evolve;45
8.3;Models of commitment;48
8.4;Could “religion” be a form of prosocial signaling?;51
8.5;So why are superhuman agents also moral enforcers?;55
8.6;Epilogue;56
9;4. Is there a religious experience?;58
9.1;Why bother with experience?;58
9.2;Who invented “religious experience”?;61
9.3;Monks and magnets;62
9.4;Rituals: a real (and most common) form of religious experience . .;64
9.5;Ritualized behavior and precaution systems;67
9.6;What about collective “rituals”?;68
9.7;Religion and experience redux;70
10;5. Are religions against reason and freedom?;74
10.1;A recapitulation of natural religious elements;74
10.2;Understanding religious cognition without “belief” ;77
10.3;Religion is not the sleep of reason;78
10.4;The troubled consciousness of modern religions;79
10.5;Two escape routes – fundamentalism and “spirituality”;81
10.6;No need for “science and religion” or different “magisteria”;86
10.7;Two varieties of Enlightenment;90
10.8;Misleading policies: the specificity of “religion”;92
10.9;Political psychology and secularization;94
10.10;Epilogue – fracture of an illusion;96
11;Afterword;100
12;Bibliography ;106
Mit einem Nachwort von Wolfgang Achtner und Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt
Mit einem Nachwort von Wolfgang Achtner und Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt