TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailey, Edward
AU  - Bailey,Edward
TI  - The Secular Faith Controversy:  Religion in Three Dimensions
SN  - 0826449255   
U1  - C53 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Part I: The religious situation in three dimensions
1     Problems	7
Prelude: common misconceptions and three groups	7
1.    For practitioners of religion: explicating the implicit	14
2.    For leaders of religion: valuing the occasional	18
3.    For students of religion: gauging the transcendent	22
Postlude: the disciples` dilemma	27
2     Reactions	31
Prelude: `modernizing` Methodism	31
1.     Denying identity: conformity, insincerity and apathy	33
2.    Maximizing difference: ritual, dogma and culture	36
3.    Ignoring evidence: categories, experience and humanness	40
Postlude: changing meaning	45
3     Alternatives	47
Prelude: consensus among the faithful     47
1.    In general: acknowledging, cooperating, communing        48
2.    For specialists: distinguishing, communicating,incorporating	51
3.    Among analysts: recognizing, reconceptualizing,remodelling	54
Postlude: Durkheim`s `sacred`    57
Part II: Religion in three dimensions
4     A three-dimensional model of religiosity	63
Prelude: the need for three dimensions                 63
1    Social experience: ecology, society, culture	64
2    Human consciousness: intensification - bifurcation,individuation - interrelationship, conscientization -contextualization	68
3    Religious experience: sensing, encountering,committing	70
Postlude: being personal three ways    73
5     The three dimensions of religious experience	77
Prelude: religious studies as religious	77
1    Its content: the sacred, the holy and the human	78
2    Its extrapolation: integrity, identity and divinity	81
3    Its intrapolation: bird, worm and mole	83
Postlude: religion and implicit religion	85
6     Some applications	89
Prelude: a working model?    89
1    Religious: spiritual discernment, religious discrimination and final judgement	
2    Spiritual: coinherence and intercession,adoration and confession,contemplation and worship      93
Human: growing, doing, dying	96
3 Postlude

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