Author: Richard Kearney
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: religion, philosophy, series, indiana, god, hermeneutics
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0253214890
ISBN-13: 9780253214898
"Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy. . . . and joins hands with its fundamental project, ’what-or who-comes after the God of metaphysics?’ " --John D. Caputo Engaging some of the most recent and more urgent issues in the philosophy of religion today, Richard Kearney proposes in this lively book that instead of thinking of God as "actual," God might best be thought of as the possibility of the impossible. By pulling away from biblical perceptions of God and breaking with dominant theological traditions, Kearney draws
Author: Keiji Nishitani
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: religion, culture, studies, nanzan, nothingness
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 1983-10-06
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0520049462
ISBN-13: 9780520049468
In Religion and Nothingness the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the foundation of thought for a world in the making, for a world united beyond the differences of East and West. Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible trend of Western civilization to nihilism, and singles out the conquest of nihilism as the task for contemporary philosophy. Nihility, or relative nothingness, can only be overcome by being radicalized to Emptiness, or absolute nothingness. Taking absolute nothingness as the fundamental notion in rational explanations of the Eastern experience of human
Author: Hans Jonas
Publisher: Siruela
Keywords: religion, spanish, gnostica, agnosticism
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2000-06-30
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 8478444920
ISBN-13: 9788478444922
Author: Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: religion, study, essays, relating
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2004-11-10
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226763870
ISBN-13: 9780226763873
One of the most influential theorists of religion, Jonathan Z. Smith is best known for his analyses of religious studies as a discipline and for his advocacy and refinement of comparison as the basis for the history of religions. Relating Religion gathers seventeen essaysfour of them never before publishedthat together provide the first broad overview of Smith’s thinking since his seminal 1982 book, Imagining Religion.Smith first explains how he was drawn to the study of religion, outlines his own theoretical commitments, and draws the connections between his thinking and his concerns
Author: David A. Phillips Jr.
Publisher: AltaMira Pre
Keywords: religion, archaeology, prehispanic, southwest
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-01-18
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0759109672
ISBN-13: 9780759109674
Religion mattered to the prehistoricSouthwestern people, just as it matters to their descendents today. Examining the role of religion can help to explain architecture, pottery, agriculture, even commerce. But archaeologists have only recently developed the theoretical and methodological tools with which to study this topic. Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest marks the first book-length study of prehistoric religion in the region. Drawing on a rich array of empirical approaches, the contributors show the importance of understanding beliefs and ritual for a range of time periods and southwes
Author: Ronald L. Johnstone
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: religion, sociology, society
Number of Pages: 387
Published: 2006-02-15
List price: $95.40
ISBN-10: 0131884077
ISBN-13: 9780131884076
Using an unbiased, balanced approach, the 8th edition of this text puts religion in its social context by discussing the impact of society on religion while helpg readers understand the role and function of religion in society that occur regardless of anyone’s claims about the truth or falsity of religious systems.
Author: Douglas Allen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: religion, reason, ser, creativity, amp, structure
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 1978-06
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 9027975949
ISBN-13: 9789027975942
