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The New Sciences of Religion

Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom Up

by W. Grassie

  • Hardback
  • 284 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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The New Sciences of Religion is a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena. William Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the "outside in" and the "bottom up" without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions. Using insights from economics, evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, and medicine, Grassie develops a complex and multifaceted understanding of religion as potentially functional and dysfunctional in specific contexts, differentially so for individuals and groups. The New Sciences of Religion then asks what in religion and spirituality might also be true and profound when our received traditions are reinterpreted in light of contemporary sciences. In contrast to the New Atheists, Grassie argues for a concept of God-by-whatever-name that is fully compatible with contemporary science and the reinterpretation of traditional religions.In the end, there is no grand unified theory of religion and none of the many scientific explanations of religion preclude that religions have intuited, experienced, and discovered true and profound insights into the nature of ultimate reality and human existence. This is an original and compelling scientific interpretation of religion and also a religious interpretation of science that will challenge and delight students and scholars alike.
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  • Author

    W. Grassie

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    January 2011

  • Weight

    500g

  • Page Count

    284

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780230108769

  • ISBN-10

    0230108768

  • Eden Code

    3700224

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