Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-209) and indexes.
Contents:
Indexes. A final note on secularization, detraditionalization, and authority -- Religions in and beyond philosophy of religion -- The impossibility of a neutral approach to religion -- Challenges for a philosophical approach to religions -- Religion : orientation, transformation and legitimizing of practices -- Religion as symbolically mediated experience of things set apart -- The world is full of signs : peirce's semiotic theory -- Semiotics of orientation and religion : dalferth -- Things we deem religious : ann taves -- Natural religion on new terms? -- The realms of experience -- A maximalist approach : a critical view of CSR explanations of religions -- Natural religion is not natural religion as it used to be -- Schleiermacher as a model for assessing natural religion? -- From explanation to understanding of religion -- Nathaniel barrett's critique of the computational model -- Conclusion -- Religion, orientation, and transformation in the social world -- Woodhead : different dimensions in religions -- Religion as culture -- Religion as identity -- Religion as relationship -- Religion as practice -- Religion as power -- Implications for a philosophy of religion -- Religion as experienced in the personal realm : emotions and self-psychology -- Heinz kohut on the self : affirmation and idealization as a basis for orientation and transformation -- Orchestrating religious emotions : Ole Riis and Linda Woodhead -- Emotional regimes -- Emotional, embodied experience -- Emotional experience as symbolically mediated -- Transcendence and emotional regimes -- Emotion : orientation and transformation -- Conclusion -- How religious symbols work : attachment theory -- The other in the personal realm : beyond personal boundaries -- The path and its conditions : change and transformation -- Change and religion -- Historical change and epistemic stability (normativity) -- Philosophy of religions and human evolution : religion and humanity have unfinished business -- Religion as motion : practices as learning and transformation -- Religions as different types of discourse -- Religion is mediation -- A pragmatic concept of religious knowledge -- The relation between O, T, and L in a learning perspective -- Religious learning, experience, and the need for orientation -- Orientation and legitimation rooted in the past : on religion as a chain of memory -- Tradition and orientation -- Religion as a chain of memory -- On interactions between the physical and the mystical realms of experience -- Schleiermacher : religion in the interaction between the natural and the personal realm -- From nature to the mystical : reflections on the interaction between realms -- Conclusion : from experience to wisdom : the path revisited -- Three metaphors for how religions work -- Religion as a virtual home -- Religion as score and play -- Normative considerations : religions as stewards of wisdom? -- The quest for wisdom -- Basic experiences of the human condition -- A recipe against religious stupidity -- Conclusions and implications -- The normative outcome -- Implications for a pragmatist view of religion -- Understanding religion in a late modern societal context -- A final note on secularization, detraditionalization, and authority -- Bibliography -- Indexes.
Series:
Religion in philosophy and theology, 1616-346X ; 90
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