Will Humanity Survive Religion? : Beyond Divisive Absolutes /: Beyond Divisive Absolutes. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: W. Royce Clark.
• Authors: Clark, W. Royce
• Contents: Preliminary Considerations: The “Camel” Burdened with a Metaphysical Absolute ; ; Chapter 1. Religion’s Divisive Burden as Absolutism in a Scientific and Pluralistic Age ; ; Chapter 2. The Absolute’s Divisive Burden in Segregating Humanity ; ; Chapter 3. Inflexible Faith in the Absolute: The Burden of the Loss of Self ; ; Chapter 4. The Absolute and its Burden of Miracles, Mystery, and Authority ; ; Chapter 5. Fantasy vs. Reality: The Burden of Reason’s Limits ; ; Chapter 6. Inhumane Faith: The Burden of Death as Evil or as Divine Punishment ; ; Chapter 7. The Burden of Religion’s Historical/Mythical Claims and the Slippage of Categories ; ; Chapter 8. The “Ugly Ditch”: The Burden of Historical Data’s Dead End ; ; Chapter 9. That Same “Ditch”: The Dead End of the Historical/Mythological ; ; Chapter 10. The Greatest Burden “After Auschwitz”: The Dead End of God as a Historical Liberator ; ; Chapter 11. Conclusion and Challenges
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Fortress Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (552 pages)
• Subjects: Religion: History; Social Science: Sociology of Religion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781978708563; 1978708564
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.