Numinous Subjects - 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 Numinous Subjects write by Lucy Tatman. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Numinous Subjects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part religious studies, part feminist theory, part philosophy, part indescribable: such is Numinous Subjects. Described by the author as ‘a kaleidoscopic exploration of why three gendered figures of the sacred matter within western culture,’ the experience of reading this text truly is akin to gazing through a constantly turning kaleidoscope. Images, concepts, phrases and quotes are continually revisited, recombined, though never repeated in quite the same way. From these tumbling constellations arises a new understanding and wary appreciation of the figures of the virgin, the mother, and the whore. Drawing on the insights of thinkers as diverse as Rudolph Otto, Julia Kristeva, Simone de Beauvoir, and Martin Buber, Numinous Subjects simultaneously expands and focuses our attention on the myth of the sacred and its implications for female subjects in western culture today.
Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing on Religion
Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing on Religion - 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 Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing on Religion write by Daniel Gold. This book was released on 2003-06-10. Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing on Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that successful writers on religion employ characteristic aesthetic strategies in communicating their visions of human truths. Gold examines these strategies with regard to epistemology and to the study of religion as a collective endeavor.
Hume's Inexplicable Mystery
Hume's Inexplicable Mystery - 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 Hume's Inexplicable Mystery write by Keith E. Yandell. This book was released on 1990. Hume's Inexplicable Mystery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The eighteenth-century Scottish empiricist David Hume has been regarded as a notorious enemy of religion. Still, his discussion of religion is systematic, sophisticated, and sustained. Focusing mainly on two of Hume’s works, the relatively neglected Natural History of Religion and the more widely read Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Keith Yandell analyzes Hume’s treatment of a subject that he described as "a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery." In so doing, he explores the relationships between Hume’s philosophy of religion and his general philosophy. Hume’s "evidentialism," applied to religion, can be summed up by saying that it is unreasonable to accept a religious belief unless one has evidence for it. Since it is also Hume’s view that there is no evidence for any religious belief, he concludes that no one is ever reasonable in accepting a religious belief. Yandell examines the explanations that Hume gave for such acceptance in Natural History of Religion. Addressing the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, he compares Hume’s views to those of such authors as Herbert of Cherbury and Bishop Joseph Butler, traces changes in Hume’s theory of meaning, and discusses the ontological and cosmological arguments and Hume’s treatment of the problem of evil. Yandell then considers other lesser known writings by Hume that are relevant to his philosophy of religion.
Jung and the Postmodern
Jung and the Postmodern - 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 Jung and the Postmodern write by Christopher Hauke. This book was released on 2013-10-23. Jung and the Postmodern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What has Jung to do with the Postmodern? Chris Hauke's lively and provocative book, puts the case that Jung's psychology constitutes a critique of modernity that brings it in line with many aspects of the postmodern critique of contemporary culture. The metaphor he uses is one in which 'we are gazing through a Jungian transparency or filter being held up against the postmodern while, from the other side, we are also able to look through a transparency or filter of the postmodern to gaze at Jung. From either direction there will be a new and surprising vision.' Setting Jung against a range of postmodern thinkers, Hauke recontextualizes Jung' s thought as a reponse to modernity, placing it - sometimes in parallel and sometimes in contrast to - various postmodern discourses. Including chapters on themes such as meaning, knowledge and power, the contribution of architectural criticism to the postmodern debate, Nietzsche's perspective theory of affect and Jung's complex theory, representation and symbolization, constructivism and pluralism, this is a book which will find a ready audience in academy and profession alike.
Sacred Tropes
Sacred Tropes - 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 Sacred Tropes write by Roberta Sterman Sabbath. This book was released on 2009. Sacred Tropes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Sacred Tropes" interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an essays which collectively and individually enlist literary approaches including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms. "Sacred Tropes" represents a pioneering, comparatist approach to Abrahamic studies.
