Spirituality without God: a global history of thought and practice

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue: A Religion is Born -- 1 Introduction: Religion and Spirituality, Gods and Godlessness -- Religion, irreligion, and spirituality -- God: Yes, No, Maybe -- Spirituality without God -- 2 Theistic and Nontheistic Religions in t...

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Main Author: Heehs, Peter 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney Bloomsbury Academic [2019]
In:Year: 2019
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Spirituality / Atheism / Agnosticism
Further subjects:B Electronic books
B Spirituality History
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue: A Religion is Born -- 1 Introduction: Religion and Spirituality, Gods and Godlessness -- Religion, irreligion, and spirituality -- God: Yes, No, Maybe -- Spirituality without God -- 2 Theistic and Nontheistic Religions in the Ancient World -- Supernatural foundations -- The search for liberation in India -- Following the way in China -- Therapeutic wisdom in Greece -- The monotheistic alternative -- 3 Defending and Debating Tradition -- Nontheistic philosophies in India -- The three teachings in China -- Therapeutic philosophy in Rome -- 4 The Triumph of Theism -- Personal gods -- Theism and violence -- Doubt, dissent, and reform -- 5 The Coming of Modernity and the Decline of God -- Science, skepticism, rationality -- Tradition and decline in Asia -- Enthusiasm and enlightenment -- 6 Secularizing the Sacred -- Natural supernaturalism -- Ways of worldly and otherworldly perfection -- Reinvented traditions in Asia -- 7 The Death and Afterlife f God -- Self-exceeding and redemption -- The vertigo of relativity -- Godlessness and God today -- Epilogue: Spiritual But Still Religious? -- Notes -- Prologue: A religion is born -- 1 Introduction: Religion and spirituality, gods and godlessness -- 2 Theistic and nontheistic religions in the ancient world -- 3 Defending and debating tradition -- 4 The triumph of theism -- 5 The coming of modernity and the decline of God -- 6 Secularizing the sacred -- 7 The death and afterlife of God -- Epilogue: Spiritual but still religious? -- Bibliography -- Index
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 257-271. - Index
ISBN:1350056227