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Author:   Mike King
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780227172452

ISBN 10:   0227172450
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   29 November 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction.Part One: Issues in Secularism and Culture. 1.1. Secularism, Atheism and Scientism. 1.2. Secularism and Contemporary Culture. 1.3. Philosophy and Secularism. 1.4. The Role of Language. 1.5. Psychology, the Brain and Secularism. 1.6. The Shibboleths of Secularism.Part Two: Articulating Spiritual Difference. 2.1 The History of the Spiritual Life. 2.2 Four Spiritual Polarities. 2.3 The Varieties of Spiritual Impulse. 2.4 Pathologies and Correctives in the Spiritual Life. 2.5 The Problem of 'God'. 2.6 The Bhakti / Jnani Distinction.Part Three: Returning to the Roots. 3.1 The twentieth century. 3.2 The Enlightenment. 3.3 The Spiritual Wounds of the West.Part Four: Bhakti and Jnani in Western Development. 4.1 Piety and the West. 4.2 Jnani, the East, and Hellenic Influence. 4.3 A Radical History of Western DevelopmentPart Five: The Undefended Western 'God'. 5.1 The Enlightenment Reconsidered. 5.2 Deism. 5.3 Failure of the Western Jnani Religion.Conclusions. References. Bibliography. Index

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Dr Mike King is Reader at London Metropolitan University. He serves as Director for the Scientific and Medical Network, a charity devoted to combating scientific materialism, and sits on the Steering Group for the Wrekin Trust Forum, which promotes spiritual learning on all levels within society.

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