دانلود کتاب The Future of Post-Human Religion: A Preface to a New Theory of Spirituality

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CONTENTS
TABLES
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
PART ONE Introduction
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION — THE AWE OF RELIGION
The Secular Underestimation of Religion
Religious Studies vs. Theology
Religious Studies
Theology
Religion vs. Spirituality
Religion
Spirituality
Religion and Supernatural Reality
Monotheism vs. Polytheism
Pantheism vs. Deism vs. Panentheism
The Theoretical Debate
The Theistic Argument
The Skeptical Argument
The Critical Argument
The Comparative-Substitutive Argument
The Comparative-Substitutive Theory of Religion
Theory and Meta-Theory
A Unified Theory of Everything
The Logic of Existential Dialectics
The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)
The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodology and Ontologic)
The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics)
The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontopragmatics)
Sophisticated Methodological Holism
Chapter Outline
Some Clarifications
In Conversation with My Previous Books
Case Studies and Examples
Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis
Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations
The Use of Neologisms
PART TWO Sacredness
CHAPTER 2. SACREDNESS AND ITS LIMITS
The Importance of Sacredness
Sacredness and the Mind
Faith, Reason, and Religion
Magical Thinking, and Religion
Sacredness and ˙ature
Religious Cosmology, and the Teleological Argument
Evolutionary Theory, and Religion
Sacredness and Society
Religious Converson, and the Politics of Rights
New Religious Movements, and the Sociology of Religion
Sacredness and Culture
Shamanism, the Outer-World, and the Role of Culture
Animism, the Spirits, and Cultural Traditions
The Limitation of Sacredness
PART THREE Secularness
CHAPTER 3. SECULARNESS AND ITS FAULTS
The Promise of Secularness
Secularness and the Mind
Mental Delusion, and the Secular Origin of Religions
Power Drive, Developmental Stages, and the Search for Faith
Secularness and Nature
Evolutionary Biology, and the Debate on Creation in Religion
Heliocentrism, and Its Conflict with Organized Religion
Secularness and Society
Religion, and the Challenge of Secularization
Religion, and the Politics of Antireligion
Secularness and Culture
The Anti-Christian, and the Quest for Life Affirmation
Philosophy of Religion, and Its Critical Questions for Religion
The Pitfall of Secularness
PART FOUR Conclusion
CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION — THE FUTURE OF RELIGION
Beyond Sacredness and Secularness
Other Relevant Principles
1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle
2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle
3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle
4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle
5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle
6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle
7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle
8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle
9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle
10th Thesis: The Convention-Novelty Principle
11th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle
12th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle
13th Thesis: The Softness-Hardness Principle
14th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle
15th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle
16th Thesis: The Post-Human Substitution
Towards the Higher Spirituality
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX