TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flood, Gavin
AU  - Flood,Gavin
TI  - The Importance of Religion:  Meaning and Action in Our Strange World
SN  - 9781405189712
U1  - N26.5 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Blackwell Publishig
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Introduction: Religion and the Human Condition   Mediating Our Strange World                                                         Theories of Religion                                                                Religion and Religions                                                              Defining Religion                                                                   The Argument  Alienation and the Human Condition                                                  The Primacy of Perception and the System of Signs                                 The Invisible and the Transcendent                                                  The Truths of Religion       ACTION  Clearing the Ground  Reification: The Marxist Legacy    Rationalization: The Weberian Legacy   Knowledge and Action   Methodology    The Meaning of Religious Action   The Sociology of Religious Meaning   Meaning and Action   Moral Acts   Ritual and the Body   A Rite of Affliction   The Meaning of Sacrifice   A Phenomenology of Sacrifice   The Meanings of Death   The Inner Journey  Languages of Spirituality   The Spiritual Habitus   Part Two    SPEECH  The Reception of the Text   Routes to the World of Life   Theories of the Text   The Reception of Sacred Texts   Sacred Text and Act   Tradition, Language, and the Self Linguistic Universals Linguistic Relativity Language and Religious Experience Language as a Model of Religion Conclusion  Religion and Rationality   What is Rationality?   Rational Religious Communities   Rationality and Cosmology    WORLD  The Mystery of Complexity and Emergence   A History of Antagonism   Complexity and Constraint   The Ontology of Process   Conclusion  The Union of Nature and Imagination   Art and the Real   Cosmological Art   Pavel Florensky   Abhinavagupta   Secular Art   Re-Spiritualizing Art   Conclusion   Religion and Politics  Religion in the Public Sphere   The Secular Public Sphere  The Traditionalist View   Fundamentalism   The Religious Citizen
ER  -