Why Religions Matter
Author:   John Bowker
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107085114


Pages:   362
Publication Date:   30 March 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Why Religions Matter


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Author:   John Bowker
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9781107085114


ISBN 10:   110708511
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   30 March 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The paradox of religions; 3. Religions and sciences I: 'the warfare between science and religion'; 4. Religions and sciences II: dogmatism and doubt; 5. Religions and sciences III: the selfless gene: genetic determinism and human freedom; 6. Religions and sciences IV: causes and constraints; 7. Understanding religions I: issues of translation and interpretation; 8. Understanding religions II: being religiously human; the internalisation of constraint in ethics and art; 9. Understanding religions III: ritual and the human imagination of death; 10. Understanding religions IV: communities of shared exploration and discovery.

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'Many readers will feel refreshed to follow the thoughts of an infinitely enquiring mind released from artificial shackles.' Jonathan Benthall, The Times Literary Supplement 'Many readers will feel refreshed to follow the thoughts of an infinitely enquiring mind released from artificial shackles.' Jonathan Benthall, The Times Literary Supplement


'Many readers will feel refreshed to follow the thoughts of an infinitely enquiring mind released from artificial shackles.' Jonathan Benthall, The Times Literary Supplement


Author Information

John Bowker is an Emeritus Professor at Gresham College, London. He has also been a Fellow and Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of Religious Studies at the universities of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina State. He is the author or editor of more than forty books, including Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World; The Meanings of Death (winner of the HarperCollins Book Prize, 1993); Is God a Virus? Genes, Culture and Religion; The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions; God: A Brief History; Beliefs that Changed the World and Knowing the Unknowable: Science and Religions on God and the Universe.

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