Religion and the Philosophy of Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 February 2019
- ISBN 9780198836124
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages458 pages
- Size 236x164x29 mm
- Weight 792 g
- Language English 10
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Short description:
This book firstly presents an account of how the category life has been understood by religions in the history of Indian, Chinese, and European/Middle Eastern civilizations and secondly how those religions can be explained in terms of life.
MoreLong description:
Religion and the Philosophy of Life considers how religion as the source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of humans through language and the somatic exploration of religious ritual and prayer. Gavin Flood offers an integrative account of the nature of the human, based on what contemporary scientists tell us, especially evolutionary science and social neuroscience, as well as through the history of civilizations. Part one contemplates fundamental questions and assumptions: what the current state of knowledge is concerning life itself; what the philosophical issues are in that understanding; and how we can explain religion as the driving force of civilizations in the context of human development within an evolutionary perspective. It also addresses the question of the emergence of religion and presents a related study of sacrifice as fundamental to religions' views about life and its transformation. Part two offers a reading of religions in three civilizational blocks--India, China, and Europe/the Middle East--particularly as they came to formation in the medieval period. It traces the history of how these civilizations have thematised the idea of life itself. Part three then takes up the idea of a life force in part three and traces the theme of the philosophy of life through to modern times. On the one hand, the book presents a narrative account of life itself through the history of civilizations, and on the other presents an explanation of that narrative in terms of life.
This is a really engaging book and a healthy reading for those who tread paths of science, philosophy, and religion and try to bring them together for the benefit of these three areas of knowledge. Indeed, this book reveals the fecundity of that transdisciplinary approach, and it even suggests a model for possible attempts to combine those interacting fields.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I - The Theory of Life Itself
Theory and Philosophy of Life
The Emergence of Religion
Sacrifice
Part II - Religious Civilizations
The Sacrificial Imaginary: Indic Traditions
The Chinese Traditions
The Greek and Abrahamic Traditions
Part Three - Philosophies of Life Itself
Philosophies of Life
The Philosophy of Life as a Field of Immanence
The Phenomenology of Life
Bare Life and the Resurrection of the Body
Religion and the Bio-Sociology of Transformation
Epilogue: Religion and the Post Human
Bibliography
Religion and the Philosophy of Life
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