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100 _aBailey, Edward
245 _aThe Secular Faith Controversy
_b Religion in Three Dimensions
260 _aNew York
_bContinuum International Publishing Group Inc.
_c2001
300 _a113p
500 _aincludes index and biblioraphy
505 2 _aPart 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
700 1 _aBailey, Edward
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