Religion After Science - The Cultural Consequences of Religious Immaturity

Presents a new perspective on religion that acknowledges all its past and present faults while remaining optimistic about its future.

List of contents

Prologue: the 10,000-year test; 1. Development and the divine; 2. The end is not near; 3. Big ambitions; 4. A poor record; 5. Verdict: immature not doomed; 6. A new path for science and religion; 7. The new agnosticism; 8. Naturalism tamed; 9. Agnostic religion?; 10. The new humanism; Epilogue: the religion project.

About the author

J. L. Schellenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia. His work was honored by a special issue of the Cambridge journal Religious Studies in 2013.

Summary

Schellenberg's argument is unique in bringing developmental ideas into contact with human religion, which is often treated as exempt from their influence; also radical is the suggestion that much of religion's development has yet to occur and that religion can and should become a human project as monumental as science.

Product details

• Authors: J L Schellenberg, J. L. Schellenberg, J. L. (Mount St Vincent University Schellenberg
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781108713078
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71307-8
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: The Cambridge RF and Microwave Engineering Series; Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy of religion