The fashion today among serious students of religion is to dodge responsibility for developing a comprehensive descriptive definition of religion. Many researchers tend merely to indicate how they will use the word in their Particular project. In some disciplines, a consensus develops; these intra...
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Few exceptions are found to this uniform law of nature: The more exquisite any good is of which a small specimen is provided for us, the sharper is the evil allied to it. The most sprightly wit borders on madness; the highest effusions of joy produce the deepest melancholy; the most ravi...
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Reviews the book, Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul. A Historical Entanglement by Graham Richards (see record 2010-21480-000). In this book, the author explores the relationship between psychology and religion, historically and philosophically, critically examining the potentially ...
of the community; that no citizen should be denied the right to serve on a jury on account of race, religion, sex, or national origin; that defendants are entitled to trial by their peers; and that verdicts should represent the conscience of the community and not just the letter of the...
A religion that is thought of as having such categories can be said to be 'categorially true'" (p.48). According to cultural-linguistic model, then a "categorially true religion" is one in which it is possible to speak meaningfully of "that which is", i.e. it makes possible ...
But the other question, concerning the origin of religion in human nature, is exposed to some more difficulty. The belief of invisible, intelligent power has been very generally diffused over the human race, in all places and in all ages; but it has neither perhaps been so universal as to...
Do non-religious adults – despite their explicit disavowal of religious beliefs – have a tacit tendency to view nature as purposefully created by some being? This question was explored in three online studies using a speeded judgment procedure, which assessed disbelievers in two different Western ...
of theBible, displaying that marvelous library as the imperfect work of fallible men.Then the deistic movement in England, reducing religion to a vague belief in aGod hardly distinguishable from nature. Then the growing ...