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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Religion and the Human Condition
Mediating Our Strange World
Theories of Religion
Religion and Religions
Defining Religion
The Argument
Alienation and the Human Condition
The Primacy of Perception and the System of Signs
The Invisible and the Transcendent
The Truths of Religion
Conclusion
Part One: Action
Chapter 1: Clearing the Ground
Reification: The Marxist Legacy
Rationalization: The Weberian Legacy
Knowledge and Action
Methodology
Conclusion
Chapter 2: The Meaning of Religious Action
The Sociology of Religious Meaning
Meaning and Action
Moral Acts
Ritual and the Body
A Rite of Affliction
The Meaning of Sacrifice
A Phenomenology of Sacrifice
The Meanings of Death
Conclusion
Chapter 3: The Inner Journey
Languages of Spirituality
The Spiritual Habitus
Conclusion
Part Two: Speech
Chapter 4: The Reception of the Text
Routes to the World of Life
Theories of the Text
The Reception of Sacred Texts
Sacred Text and Act
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Tradition, Language, and the Self
Linguistic Universals
Linguistic Relativity
Language and Religious Experience
Language as a Model of Religion
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Religion and Rationality
What is Rationality?
Rational Religious Communities
Rationality and Cosmology
Conclusion
Part Three: World
Chapter 7: The Mystery of Complexity and Emergence
A History of Antagonism
Complexity and Constraint
The Ontology of Process
Conclusion
Chapter 8: The Union of Nature and Imagination
Art and the Real
Cosmological Art
Pavel Florensky
Abhinavagupta
Secular Art
Re-Spiritualizing Art
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Religion and Politics
Religion in the Public Sphere
The Secular Public Sphere
The Traditionalist View
Fundamentalism
The Religious Citizen
Conclusion
Summary
Epilogue
References
Index
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