Amythia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amythia write by Loyal D. Rue. This book was released on 1989. Amythia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Promise of Religious Naturalism
The Promise of Religious Naturalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Promise of Religious Naturalism write by Michael S. Hogue. This book was released on 2010-12-28. The Promise of Religious Naturalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Promise of Religious Naturalism explores religious naturalism as a distinctly promising form of contemporary religious ethics. Examining how religious naturalism responds to the challenges of recent religious transformations and ecological peril worldwide, author Michael Hogue argues that religious naturalism is emerging as an increasingly plausible and potentially rewarding form of religious moral life. Beginning with an introduction of religious naturalism in the larger context of religious and ethical theories, the book undertakes the first extended study of the works of religious naturalists Loyal Rue, Donald Crosby, Jerome Stone, and Ursula Goodenough. Hogue pays particular attention to the ethical components of religious naturalism in relation to religious pluralism and ecological issues.
By the Grace of Guile
By the Grace of Guile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook By the Grace of Guile write by Loyal D. Rue. This book was released on 1994. By the Grace of Guile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Only a noble lie can save us from the psychological and social chaos now threatened by the spread of skepticism about the meaning of life and the universe.
The Absence of Myth
The Absence of Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Absence of Myth write by Sophia Heller. This book was released on 2012-02-01. The Absence of Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this provocative work, Sophia Heller challenges the assumption that we cannot be without myth, that myth is necessary to vital, soulful living. Indeed, Heller argues, we have been living in a world without myth for a long time. The Absence of Myth examines the loss of a religious mode of being-in-the-world and demonstrates how theorists who insist on the presence of myth deny its historical end. Absence of myth may seem obvious: evidenced by our lack of cult and ritual, and by our de-animated natural world, as well as in the emergence of conceptual thought and psychological awareness, which could only arise with the dissolution of a prereflective (mythic) mode of being-in-the-world. But what appears to be straightforward becomes complicated when myth is intentionally conflated with thought and reflection, usually in the attempt to cultivate a "mythic consciousness" that aims to restore meaning to life and assuage the spiritual malaise of contemporary culture. Myth cannot rest in peace. It must be continually unearthed, redefined, and recontextualized such that modern and postmodern notions of myth are made to substitute for something that has never been experienced, only imagined.
Consecrating Science
Consecrating Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consecrating Science write by Lisa H. Sideris. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Consecrating Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In Consecrating Science, Lisa Sideris offers a searing critique of 'The New Cosmology,' a complex network of overlapping movements that claim to bring together science and spirituality, all in the name of saving our planet from impending ecological collapse. Highly regarded in many academic circles, these movements have been endorsed by numerous prominent scholars, scientists, historians, and educators. Their express goal--popularized in numerous books, films, TED talks, YouTube videos, podcasts, and even introductory courses at places like Harvard or Washington University--is to instill in readers and audiences a profound sense of being at home in the universe, thereby fostering environmentally responsible behavior. Whether promoted as 'The New Story,' 'The Universe Story,' or 'The Epic of Evolution,' they all offer humanity a new sacred story, a common creation myth for modern times and for all people: the evolutionary unfolding of the universe from the Big Bang to the present. Evolutionary science and religious cosmology--together at last! But as Sideris shows, however, the New Cosmology actually underwrites a staggeringly anthropocentric vision of the world. Instead of cultivating an ethic of respect for nature, the project of 'consecrating science' only increases human arrogance and indifference to nonhuman life. Going back to the work of Rachel Carson and other naturalists, the author shows how a sense of wonder, rooted in the natural world and our own ethical impulses, helps foster environmental attitudes and policies that protect our planet"--Provided by publishe
