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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Saltman, R

Titel

Sacred Humanism without Miracles : Responding to the New Atheists [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2016

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Sacred Humanism Without Miracles: Responding to the New Atheists; Contents; About the Author; CHAPTER 1: Worldviews in Conflict; In Search of a Middle Way; The Modern Dilemma and Its Analysis; The Greco-Roman Era; Religion and the State; The New Atheists; No Miracles versus No God; The Impact of No Miracles on the Abrahamic Religions; The Physical World and the Spiritual World; Profane versus Sacred; Sacred versus Holy; The New Atheists and "Religious Moderation"; The Unbearable Lightness of Nonbeing; The Sacred Is Invoked and Is Sensed; The Contradictory Nature of the Human Condition
• CHAPTER 2: Our Physical Universe: Beyond BeliefHumankind's Longstanding Curiosity; Creation Myths; Changing Conceptions of the Universe; The Milky Way Galaxy; Light: Its Transmission, Speed, and Bending; The Expanding Universe and the Big Bang; The Age, Size, and Extent of the Universe; Formation of our Solar System; Development of Biological Knowledge; Beginning of Life I: First Formation of Organic Molecules; Beginning of Life II: First Formation of Life-Forms; Beginning of Life III: The Oxygen "Catastrophe"; Beginning of Life IV: First Formation of Cells with Nuclei
• Beginning of Life V: First Formation of Multicelled OrganismsStatus of the Earth, One Billion Years Ago; Tectonic Plates; Neoproterozoic Era: One Billion to 540 Million Years Ago; Paleozoic Era: 540 to 248 mya; Mesozoic Era: 248 to 65 mya; Cenozoic Era: 65 mya to the Present; Evolution and Development of Homo sapiens sapiens (Humans); The Culture of Humans; CHAPTER 3: Religion: Origins, Interpretations, and Current Practices; Advanced Symbolic Thinking: The Human Difference; Religion and the Universe; Some Early Spiritual Thinking; The Importance of Death to Religion; Religions Today
• Some Theorists and Their Theories of ReligionReligion as a Cultural System; The Continuation of Religion; Religion and Children; Those Awful Verses in the Hebrew Bible; CHAPTER 4: Religion and the State: A Tyrannous Alliance; Equal-Opportunity Persecutors; The Disastrous Impact of Christian Anti-Judaism; Christianity Complicit in the Destruction of Distant Cultures-The Case of the Maya; Jews and Christians under Muslim Rule; Invading Armies, Changing Religions, Moving Populations; Current Persecution of Christians in Egypt; Current Persecution of the Baha'i Faith in Iran
• Countering Current PersecutionsCHAPTER 5: Contemporary Interreligious Conflicts; Terrorism by Islamist Groups; Theological Underpinning: Salafi Islam; Christian Prejudice and Violence against Muslims; Christian Anti-Abortion Violence; Overzealous Christian Proselytization; Israel's Descent into a "Morally Repugnant" Occupation; Worldwide Anti-Semitism; Responding to Irrational Hatreds and Violence; CHAPTER 6: Acting on Sacred Values in a Scientific Age; Responding to the New Atheists; Premises Adopted; The Idea of the Sacred; "Meanings" of the Abrahamic Creation Myth
• Three Misinformed Interpretations of Humanity's Real History
• The New Atheists' claim that religion always leads to fanaticism is baseless. State-backed religion results in tyranny. Sacred humanists work to implement their highest values that will improve this world; separation of church and state, eliminating denigration of nonbelievers, assuring just governance, and preventing human trafficking.
• English