The Future of Post-Human Religion A Preface to a New Theory of Spirituality
- New Delhi Viva Books 2012
- 492p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part one: Introduction Chapter one. Introduction-The awe of religion .....3 The secular understimation of religion ......3 Religious studies vs theology ......4 Religion vs spirituality ......6 Religion and supernatural reality .....8 The theoretical debate .....9 The comparative-substitutive theory of religion ....22 Theory and meta-theory .....23 The logic of existential dialectics .....24 Sophisticated methodological holism .....54 Chapter outline .....62 Some clarifications .....63 Part two: Sacredness Chapter two. Sacredness and its limits ....127 The importence of sacredness .....127 Sacredness and the mind .....128 Sacredness and nature ......147 Sacredness and society ......162 Sacredness and culture .....178 The limitation of sacredness .....195 Part three: Secularness Chapter three. Secularness and its faults ...207 The promise of secularness .....207 Secularness and the mind ......207 Secularness and nature .....225 Secularness and society .....243 Secularness and culture ......259 The pitfall of secularness .....278 Part four: Conclusion Chapter four. Conclusion-The future of religion .....287 Beyond sacredness and secularness .....287 1st Thesis: The absoluteness-relativeness principle .....294 2nd Thesis: The predictability-unpredictability principle ......296 3rd Thesis: The explicability-inexplicability principle ......299 4th Thesis: The preciseness-vagueness principle ......302 5th Thesis: The simpleness-complicatedness principle ......305 6th Thesis: The openness-hiddenness principle ......307 7th Thesis: The denseness-emptiness principle .......310 8th Thesis: The slowness-quickness principle .....312 9th Thesis: The expansion-contraction Principle ......314 10th Thesis: The convention-novelty principle .....316 11th Thesis: The evolution-transformation principle .....319 12th Thesis: The symmetry-asymmetry principle ......321 13th Thesis: The softness-hardness principle .....324 14th Thesis: The regression-progression principle ......325 15th Thesis: The sameness-difference principle ......328 16th Thesis: The post-human substitution .....331 Towards the higher spirituality ......333