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• catalog contributor b2424188.
• catalog created "c1984.".
• catalog date "1984".
• catalog date "c1984.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1984.".
• catalog description "Archaic people : an idealized life -- The golden age and the fall -- The millennium -- Historic religion -- Totally perfect life -- Salvation through cosmic order -- Paradise: a perfect world beyond the world -- Hell : the opposite of paradise -- The realm of pure spirits and unqualified perfection -- Salvation as dissolution of the self -- Summary -- Chapter six: Neither lost nor alone : belonging as a form of salvation -- Individual devotion to a numinous reality -- Devotion to a personal numinous being -- Devotion to the right order of things -- Mystical devotion to an absolute -- Belonging to a sacred community -- Primitive religious community -- Archaic religious community -- Historic religious community -- Holiness communities -- Separation of society and religion -- Possibilities of separation of society and religion -- Historic religions and society -- Belonging as a source of intolerance -- Summary -- Chapter seven: A true and worthy selfhood : identity as salvation -- ".
• catalog description "Chapter eleven: Believing and knowing : the interrelations of faith and reason -- Theology -- The primitive and archaic traditions -- Historic religion produces theology -- Sacred theology -- Faith seeking understanding -- An example : God and evil -- Making the implausible into the plausible -- Natural theology -- By reason alone -- Proving God's existence by human reason -- The philosophers' God -- Symbols of the divine -- Faith and reason -- Faith without reasoning -- Faith as reasonable -- The tensions of the human quest -- Summary -- Part IV: Modern religiousness -- Chapter twelve: Science and secularity : the modern era begins -- Early modern science -- Galileo to deism -- Galileo and the beginnings of modern science -- Deism -- Evolution and agnosticism -- Evolutionary theory -- Atheists and agnostics -- Agnosticism and social Darwinism -- Secular evolutionary humanism -- A quasi religion -- Marxism -- Huxley's earthly religion -- The hidden forms of salvation -- ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographies and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction -- Facing mystery -- A basic human fear -- The development of religion -- Part I: The numinous -- Chapter one: An enchanted world : the numinous in primitive and archaic religion -- Primitive religion -- The impersonal numinous forces -- The spirits -- Dealing with numinous powers -- Primitive religion : animism -- The culture of the primitives -- Archaic religion -- The birth of the gods -- Great mana -- Dealing with gods and great mana -- Polytheism : a name for archaic religion -- Archaic culture -- Summary -- Chapter two: The human quest : the origin and function of belief -- The search for intelligibility -- Belief in mana -- Belief in spirits -- The primitive closeness to the spirits and mana -- From primitive to archaic myths -- Psychological comfort -- The sociological value of religion -- Experience of the sacred -- Summary -- Chapter three: A supreme and awesome unity : God and the other ultimates in historic religions -- Historic religion -- ".
• catalog description "Religious ritual, symbol, and the numinous -- The symbol in primitive, archaic, and historic religion -- The problem of idolatry in historic religions -- The death of religious symbols -- Summary".
• catalog description "The axial age : one order to reality -- Historic religion in the west -- A personal supreme being -- Almost God : two cases form history -- The God of western religion -- Historic religion in the east -- Nonpersonal ultimates -- Numinous forces of great power -- The Taoism of China -- The ultimate reality in the religions of India -- Talking about the incomprehensible -- Summary -- Chapter four: The endless quest : the human basis of belief in an ultimate -- A merely perfect person -- The universal and ultimate questions -- Asking the questions in a contemporary context -- What is the origin of everything? -- What order and purpose is there? -- What order and purpose is there to our lives? -- The capacity for the infinite -- Our peculiar kind of consciousness -- The human condition and estrangement -- Summary -- Part II: Salvations -- Chapter five: Peace, paradise, and perfection : reality as it should be -- Primitive salvation -- An unbothered life -- ".
• catalog description "The end of optimism -- Summary -- Chapter thirteen: Skeptical humanisms : life without religion in 20th-century thought -- Early attacks on traditional religion -- A new way of understanding reality -- A new way of understanding self -- Two skeptical philosophers -- American pragmatism -- Atheistic existentialism -- Summary -- Chapter fourteen: In the presence of mystery : modern religion -- The modern challenges to religion -- The challenge of scientific world views -- The challenge of secularity -- The challenge of autonomous selfhood -- The challenge of the tentativeness of knowledge -- Religious beliefs today -- Simple faith with accommodations -- Fundamentalism -- Sects and cults -- Modern religion -- Religion and scientific world views -- Segregation of science and religion -- Integration of science and religion -- Patient moderation concerning science and religion -- Religion and secularity -- Religion and autonomous selfhood -- Religion and tentative knowledge -- ".
• catalog description "The future of religion -- Summary -- Epilogue.".
• catalog description "The most basic value : the human person -- The motivation behind basic value morality -- Religion and basic value morality -- Morality and mystery -- Summary -- Chapter nine: Sources of guidance : leaders, texts, and interpretations -- The guides in context -- Trusting your cultural tradition -- The leaders -- The technicians of the sacred -- Wise ones and enlightened ones -- The learned interpreters -- The messengers : the great prophets -- The appointed agents of God : Messiahs -- Holy ones -- Incarnations -- The significance of leaders -- Sacred writings -- The truth that is tradition -- Wisdom literature -- Inspired words and revelations -- Interpreting the guides -- The necessity of interpretation -- Literal or loose interpretation -- Summary -- Chapter ten: Ritual and symbol : living images of the traditions -- Ritual -- Ritual makes reality work right -- Ritual makes reality real to people -- The separation of magic from ritual today -- Symbols -- Kinds of symbols -- ".
• catalog description "The problem of identity -- Born without identity -- Religion as a support for identity -- Religion and worthwhile identity -- Significance".
• catalog description "Through relation to the numinous -- Identity in the community through religion -- Our secret identity -- Reassurance for a threatened identity -- Identity in the stages of religiousness -- Identity in primitive and archaic religions -- Identity in historic religions -- The long processes of transformation -- Hindu Yoga -- Christian Monastic mysticism -- The continuing need for long effort -- Summary -- Part III: Guides to life -- Chapter eight: Being good and doing good : religion and morality -- Taboo morality and primitive religion -- Bad is what hurts -- Intentions do not count -- The program of social order -- Taboo morality today -- Acceptance morality and archaic religion -- The need for acceptance -- Group loyalty -- Acceptance morality and religion -- The morality of universal laws -- The idea of universal objective norms -- The advantage of universal laws -- Universal laws morality and religion -- Difficulties with universal laws -- Basic value morality -- ".
• catalog extent "311 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0896222055 (pbk.) :".
• catalog issued "1984".
• catalog issued "c1984.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Mystic, Conn. : Twenty-Third Publications,".
• catalog subject "200 19".
• catalog subject "BL48 .B363 1984".
• catalog subject "Religion.".
• catalog subject "Religions.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Archaic people : an idealized life -- The golden age and the fall -- The millennium -- Historic religion -- Totally perfect life -- Salvation through cosmic order -- Paradise: a perfect world beyond the world -- Hell : the opposite of paradise -- The realm of pure spirits and unqualified perfection -- Salvation as dissolution of the self -- Summary -- Chapter six: Neither lost nor alone : belonging as a form of salvation -- Individual devotion to a numinous reality -- Devotion to a personal numinous being -- Devotion to the right order of things -- Mystical devotion to an absolute -- Belonging to a sacred community -- Primitive religious community -- Archaic religious community -- Historic religious community -- Holiness communities -- Separation of society and religion -- Possibilities of separation of society and religion -- Historic religions and society -- Belonging as a source of intolerance -- Summary -- Chapter seven: A true and worthy selfhood : identity as salvation -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Chapter eleven: Believing and knowing : the interrelations of faith and reason -- Theology -- The primitive and archaic traditions -- Historic religion produces theology -- Sacred theology -- Faith seeking understanding -- An example : God and evil -- Making the implausible into the plausible -- Natural theology -- By reason alone -- Proving God's existence by human reason -- The philosophers' God -- Symbols of the divine -- Faith and reason -- Faith without reasoning -- Faith as reasonable -- The tensions of the human quest -- Summary -- Part IV: Modern religiousness -- Chapter twelve: Science and secularity : the modern era begins -- Early modern science -- Galileo to deism -- Galileo and the beginnings of modern science -- Deism -- Evolution and agnosticism -- Evolutionary theory -- Atheists and agnostics -- Agnosticism and social Darwinism -- Secular evolutionary humanism -- A quasi religion -- Marxism -- Huxley's earthly religion -- The hidden forms of salvation -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Facing mystery -- A basic human fear -- The development of religion -- Part I: The numinous -- Chapter one: An enchanted world : the numinous in primitive and archaic religion -- Primitive religion -- The impersonal numinous forces -- The spirits -- Dealing with numinous powers -- Primitive religion : animism -- The culture of the primitives -- Archaic religion -- The birth of the gods -- Great mana -- Dealing with gods and great mana -- Polytheism : a name for archaic religion -- Archaic culture -- Summary -- Chapter two: The human quest : the origin and function of belief -- The search for intelligibility -- Belief in mana -- Belief in spirits -- The primitive closeness to the spirits and mana -- From primitive to archaic myths -- Psychological comfort -- The sociological value of religion -- Experience of the sacred -- Summary -- Chapter three: A supreme and awesome unity : God and the other ultimates in historic religions -- Historic religion -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Religious ritual, symbol, and the numinous -- The symbol in primitive, archaic, and historic religion -- The problem of idolatry in historic religions -- The death of religious symbols -- Summary".
• catalog tableOfContents "The axial age : one order to reality -- Historic religion in the west -- A personal supreme being -- Almost God : two cases form history -- The God of western religion -- Historic religion in the east -- Nonpersonal ultimates -- Numinous forces of great power -- The Taoism of China -- The ultimate reality in the religions of India -- Talking about the incomprehensible -- Summary -- Chapter four: The endless quest : the human basis of belief in an ultimate -- A merely perfect person -- The universal and ultimate questions -- Asking the questions in a contemporary context -- What is the origin of everything? -- What order and purpose is there? -- What order and purpose is there to our lives? -- The capacity for the infinite -- Our peculiar kind of consciousness -- The human condition and estrangement -- Summary -- Part II: Salvations -- Chapter five: Peace, paradise, and perfection : reality as it should be -- Primitive salvation -- An unbothered life -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "The end of optimism -- Summary -- Chapter thirteen: Skeptical humanisms : life without religion in 20th-century thought -- Early attacks on traditional religion -- A new way of understanding reality -- A new way of understanding self -- Two skeptical philosophers -- American pragmatism -- Atheistic existentialism -- Summary -- Chapter fourteen: In the presence of mystery : modern religion -- The modern challenges to religion -- The challenge of scientific world views -- The challenge of secularity -- The challenge of autonomous selfhood -- The challenge of the tentativeness of knowledge -- Religious beliefs today -- Simple faith with accommodations -- Fundamentalism -- Sects and cults -- Modern religion -- Religion and scientific world views -- Segregation of science and religion -- Integration of science and religion -- Patient moderation concerning science and religion -- Religion and secularity -- Religion and autonomous selfhood -- Religion and tentative knowledge -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "The future of religion -- Summary -- Epilogue.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The most basic value : the human person -- The motivation behind basic value morality -- Religion and basic value morality -- Morality and mystery -- Summary -- Chapter nine: Sources of guidance : leaders, texts, and interpretations -- The guides in context -- Trusting your cultural tradition -- The leaders -- The technicians of the sacred -- Wise ones and enlightened ones -- The learned interpreters -- The messengers : the great prophets -- The appointed agents of God : Messiahs -- Holy ones -- Incarnations -- The significance of leaders -- Sacred writings -- The truth that is tradition -- Wisdom literature -- Inspired words and revelations -- Interpreting the guides -- The necessity of interpretation -- Literal or loose interpretation -- Summary -- Chapter ten: Ritual and symbol : living images of the traditions -- Ritual -- Ritual makes reality work right -- Ritual makes reality real to people -- The separation of magic from ritual today -- Symbols -- Kinds of symbols -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "The problem of identity -- Born without identity -- Religion as a support for identity -- Religion and worthwhile identity -- Significance".
• catalog tableOfContents "Through relation to the numinous -- Identity in the community through religion -- Our secret identity -- Reassurance for a threatened identity -- Identity in the stages of religiousness -- Identity in primitive and archaic religions -- Identity in historic religions -- The long processes of transformation -- Hindu Yoga -- Christian Monastic mysticism -- The continuing need for long effort -- Summary -- Part III: Guides to life -- Chapter eight: Being good and doing good : religion and morality -- Taboo morality and primitive religion -- Bad is what hurts -- Intentions do not count -- The program of social order -- Taboo morality today -- Acceptance morality and archaic religion -- The need for acceptance -- Group loyalty -- Acceptance morality and religion -- The morality of universal laws -- The idea of universal objective norms -- The advantage of universal laws -- Universal laws morality and religion -- Difficulties with universal laws -- Basic value morality -- ".
• catalog title "In the presence of mystery : an introduction to the story of human religiousness / Michael Horace Barnes.".
• catalog type "text".