Religion for Reluctant Believers
eBook - ePub

Religion for Reluctant Believers

  1. 148 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Religion for Reluctant Believers

About this book

This is a volume written for persons who live in the mental world of modernity--that is, in a world that cherishes (1) freedom as the core of being human; (2) critical-thinking reason as the arbiter of what to affirm or not; (3) history, process, and dynamism at the heart of human life and society; and (4) dialogue with those who think differently yet who sense that there is somehow more to life, to reality, than meets the eye: that there is a depth or spiritual dimension not captured in our everyday experiences, which is customarily called religion. Religion for Reluctant Believers explores the meaning of life: its joys, problems, and terrors, its pluses and minuses. In short, it asks the question, do you want to buy into Religion with a capital r, into a particular religion, or into no religion at all?

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Chapter 1: Invitation
  3. Chapter 2: Personal Self-Disclosure
  4. Chapter 3: The Meaning of Religion
  5. Chapter 4: Modernity
  6. Chapter 5: Reflections on Problematics
  7. Chapter 6: Purposes of Religion—The Future
  8. Chapter 7: The Search for Ultimate Reality: Deep-Dialogue
  9. Chapter 8: Light and Dark Sides of Major Religions
  10. Chapter 9: Conclusion
  11. Bibliography
  12. Suggested Reading