Reasonable Perspectives on Religion

Herausgeber: Curtis, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to bring together a range of discussions, both critical and apologetic, each of which examines some element or function of religion. Covering a wide range of topics, including ethics, religious pluralism, the existence of God, and reasonableness of Islam, these pieces have in common arguments that are made in careful and scholarly ways_they represent reasonable perspectives on a wide swath of contemporary religious debates, in contrast to the unreasonableness that creeps into discussions on religion in American society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780739141892
• ISBN-10: 0739141899
• Artikelnr.: 29027113

Autorenporträt

Richard Curtis is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Seattle Central Community College and the Cornish College of the Arts in Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Table of Contents 2 Preface Chapter 3 1. Worldview is the Brain's
Operating System Chapter 4 2. The God Debates and the Materialist
Interpretation of History Chapter 5 3. Sense and Nonsense in Religion and
Belief Chapter 6 4. All Religions are Cousins: Religion in Human Evolution
Chapter 7 5. Hegel's Metaphysics and Religious Pluralism Chapter 8 6.
Getting "Ought" from "Is": A Practical Solution for Materialists Chapter 9
7. Towards a Neuropathy of Empathy Chapter 10 8. Ethics and the Fabric of
the Universe Chapter 11 9. The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of
God: An Apologia Chapter 12 10. God as Moral Praxis Chapter 13 11. Towards
a Materialist Theology, Or, Why Atheists (and Marxists) Should Write
Theology Chapter 14 12. Is Islam Reasonable? Chapter 15 13. Types of
Religious Naturalism