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Miracles: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Author : Karen R. Zwier
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031148657
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Miracles: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion written by Karen R. Zwier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comparative philosophical investigation into a particular concept from a variety of angles—in this case, the concept of “miracle.” The text covers deeply philosophical questions around the miracle, with a multiplicity of answers. Each chapter brings its own focus to this multifaceted effort. The volume rejects the primarily western focus that typically dominates philosophy of religion and is filled with particular examples of miracle narratives, community responses, and polemical scenarios across widely varying religious contexts and historical periods. Some of these examples defy religious categorization, and some papers challenge the applicability of the concept “miracle,” which is of western and monotheistic origin. By examining miracles thru a wide comparative context, this text presents a range of descriptive content and analysis, with attention to the audience, to the subjective experiences being communicated, and to the flavor of the narratives that come to surround miracles. This book appeals to students and researchers working in philosophy of religion and science, as well those in comparative religion. It represents, in written form, some of the perspectives and dialogue achieved in The Comparison Project’s 2017–2019 lecture series on miracles. The Comparison Project is an enterprise in comparing a variety of religious voices, allowing them to stand in dialogue.

Miracles

Author : David L Weddle
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814794831
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Miracles written by David L Weddle and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the dominance of scientific explanation in the modern world, at the beginning of the twenty-first century faith in miracles remains strong, particularly in resurgent forms of traditional religion. In Miracles, David L. Weddle examines how five religious traditions—Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam—understand miracles, considering how they express popular enthusiasm for wondrous tales, how they provoke official regulation because of their potential to disrupt authority, and how they are denied by critics within each tradition who regard belief in miracles as an illusory distraction from moral responsibility. In dynamic and accessible prose, Weddle shows us what miracles are, what they mean, and why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, they are still significant today: belief in miracles sustains the hope that, if there is a reality that surpasses our ordinary lives, it is capable of exercising—from time to time—creative, liberating, enlightening, and healing power in our world.

The Concept of Miracle

Author : Richard Swinburne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349007765
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Miracle written by Richard Swinburne and published by Springer. This book was released on 1970-06-18 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Magic, Miracles, and Religion

Author : Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759106635
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Magic, Miracles, and Religion written by Ilkka Pyysiäinen and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can scientists study religion? Ilkka Pyysiäinen says that they can. While the study of religion cannot be reduced to other disciplines, it must not ignore what other disciplines have learned about human thought and behavior. In this collection of essays, Pyysiäinen shows how findings from cognitive science can offer new directions to debates in religion. After providing a historical and theoretical overview of the cognitive science of religion, Pyysiäinen demonstrates how knowledge of the mind's workings can help deconstruct such concepts as "god," "ideology," "culture," "magic," "miracles," and "religion." For scholars of religion or for scholars of the mind-brain, Magic, Miracles, and Religion provides a helpful overview to this emerging field.

Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion

Author : Laura E. Weed
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031180135
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion by : Laura E. Weed

Download or read book Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion written by Laura E. Weed and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it. This anthology features contributions that point out that contemporary studies of consciousness, sociology, hermeneutics, neuroscience, medicine, and other fields, are revealing that there is much more to be said for the inner life of a human’s consciousness than reductionists and behaviorists will allow. This book is one of very few that primarily takes the stance of academic practitioners, explaining their own experience, rather than that of academics trying to explain the phenomena away, as really politics, or sociology, or delusion, or psychological pathology, or literary flights of fancy, or an aberration of any of the other academic fields. Most of the authors in this volume embrace the task of explaining and analyzing religious experience, mysticism, and the healing power of silence and presence, using the resources of all of the academic disciplines, as appropriate. The essays contained analyze religious, and non-religious, mystical and profoundly personal experiences across several world religions, and in areas such as art and music, as well as in solving personal crises such as family disruption and patriarchal oppression. The authors address the subject matter through analyses of the frequent and destructive failures of language, or just noise, to capture or express the nuances of the inner life of a person. It is this very ineffability of self that renders the spiritual, emotional and interior life of individuals beyond cognition and perception, of the straightforward sorts embraced by most cognitive disciplines. The contributors come from a variety of cross-disciplinary fields to bring forth the possibilities for an intuitive and creative, rich and growing inner life for a human. This text appeals to students, researchers, and practitioners.

Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Author : Timothy D. Knepper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319641654
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion by : Timothy D. Knepper

Download or read book Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion written by Timothy D. Knepper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion that explores the different ways in which humans express the inexpressible. It brings together scholars of over a dozen religious, literary, and artistic traditions, as part of The Comparison Project's 2013-15 lecture and dialogue series on "religion beyond words." Specialist scholars first detailed the grammars of ineffability in nine different religious traditions as well as the adjacent fields of literature, poetry, music, and art. The Comparison Project's directors then compared this diverse set of phenomena, offering explanations for their patterning, and raising philosophical questions of truth and value about religious ineffability in comparative perspective. This book is the inaugural publication of The Comparison Project, an innovative new approach to the philosophy of religion housed at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa, USA). The Comparison Project organizes a biennial series of scholar lectures, practitioner dialogues, and comparative panels about core, cross-cultural topics in the philosophy of religion. Specialist scholars of religion first explore this topic in their religions of expertise; comparativist philosophers of religion then raise questions of meaning, truth, and value about this topic in comparative perspective. The Comparison Project stands apart from traditional approaches to the philosophy of religion in its commitment to religious inclusivity. It is the future of the philosophy of religion in a diverse, global world.

The Cambridge Companion to Miracles

Author : Graham H. Twelftree
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828533
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Miracles written by Graham H. Twelftree and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miracle stories of the founders and saints of the major world religions have much in common. Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in not only Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, but also, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our largely secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief. The miracles of Jesus are also contextualized through chapters on the Hebrew Bible, classical culture to the Romans, Second Temple and early rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. This book provides students with a scholarly introduction to miracles, which also covers philosophical, medical and historical issues.

Miracles: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Yujin Nagasawa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191064327
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Miracles: A Very Short Introduction written by Yujin Nagasawa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus turned water into wine, Mohammad split the moon into two, and Buddha walked and spoke immediately upon birth. According to recent statistics, even in the present age of advanced science and technology, most people believe in miracles. In fact, newspapers and television regularly report alleged miracles, such as recoveries from incurable diseases, extremely unlikely coincidences, and religious signs and messages on unexpected objects. In this book the award-winning author and philosopher Yujin Nagasawa addresses some of our most fundamental questions concerning miracles. What exactly is a miracle? What types of miracles are believed in the world's great religions? What do recent scientific findings tell us about miracles? Can we rationally believe that miracles have really taken place? Can there be acts that are more religiously significant than miracles? Drawing on a vast variety of fascinating examples from across the major religions, Nagasawa discusses the lively debate on miracles that ranges from reported miracles in ancient scriptures in the East and West to cutting-edge scientific research on belief formation. Throughout, he drives us to ask ourselves if and how we can still believe in in miracles in the twenty-first century. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Philosophy of Miracles

Author : David Corner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441138005
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Miracles written by David Corner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-01-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers who wish to argue for the rationality of belief in God frequently employ a 'god-of-the-gaps' strategy. This strategy consists in trying to find a phenomenon that cannot be explained by natural science, and insisting that it can be explained only by reference to the activity of God. Philosophical discussion of miracles usually revolves around the attempt to link a miracle to God in just this way. One of the problems with this approach is that it is very difficult to identify anything as being forever beyond the power of science to explain. Science continues to advance upon the territory occupied by the god of the gaps. Thus it is desirable to develop an account of divine agency that will not be subject to revision in the face of scientific progress. This book is just such an account. Drawing on recent work in the theory of action, it shows that we can attribute God's agency to an event in nature without eliminating the possibility that it might be explained scientifically. In bringing God's actions out of the gaps, we avoid the possibility that future discoveries in science will make our talk of divine agency obsolete.

Miracles

Author : David Basinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108688837
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Miracles written by David Basinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element is a critical overview of the manner in which the concept of miracle is understood and discussed in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. In its most basic sense, a miracle is an unusual, unexpected, observable event brought about by direct divine intervention. The focus of this study is on the key conceptual, epistemological, and theological issues that this definition of the miraculous continues to raise. As this topic is of existential as well as theoretical interest to many, there is no reason to believe the concept of miracle won't continue to be of ongoing interest to philosophers.

The Legitimacy of Miracle

Author : Robert A. Larmer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739184229
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Legitimacy of Miracle written by Robert A. Larmer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core contention of The Legitimacy of Miracle is that a priori philosophical dismissals of the possibility or probability of justified belief in miracles fail. Whether or not it is rational to believe that events best understood as miracles actually occur is not to be decided on the basis of armchair theorizing, but rather on the basis of meticulous examination of the evidence. Such examination, however, needs to be set free from unwarranted assumptions that miracles are “impossible, improbable, or improper.” Philosophical analysis can play an important role in clearing away conceptual underbrush and question-begging presuppositions, but it cannot take the place of detailed consideration of historical and contemporary evidence. Robert Larmer demonstrates that the proper role of philosophy, as regards to the belief in miracles, is to provide an in-principle rejection of in-principle arguments either for or against. The arguments contained in this book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of philosophy, theology, history, and religious studies, though it is written in a style accessible to anyone interested in a philosophical examination of belief in miracles.

In Defense of Miracles

Author : R. Douglas Geivett
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830897747
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Miracles written by R. Douglas Geivett and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can modern intellectuals believe in miracles? Editors R. Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas provide a collection of essays to refute objections to the miraculous and set forth the positive case for God's action in history.

On the Meaning of 'miracle' in Christianity

Author : Ton Bersee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042943957
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book On the Meaning of 'miracle' in Christianity written by Ton Bersee and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miracle narratives are an essential part of nearly all religious traditions. The importance of miracles also applies to Christianity. The Gospels record thirty-five miracles that Jesus is said to have performed, including twenty-three miraculous healings and nine nature miracles (for example, stilling a storm and turning water into wine). At the heart of Christian faith lies the story of Jesus' resurrection from the dead. However, the factuality of these events has been increasingly problematised, especially since the period of the Enlightenment. In this study, it is argued that the current debate between science-oriented critics of miracles and their religious opponents focuses predominantly on the question of factuality and evidence at the loss of the religious meaning of miracles. The suggestion that science and religion would be opposite approaches is denied in a proposal of a balanced hermeneutical approach of miracles that does justice to scientific findings, religious texts and experience.

The Familial Occult

Author : Alexandra Coțofană
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393898
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Familial Occult written by Alexandra Coțofană and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a powerful conceptual couple still governing academic thinking. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Miracles and Supernatural Religion

Author : James Morris Whiton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Miracles and Supernatural Religion written by James Morris Whiton and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism

Author : Ann Gleig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197539033
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism written by Ann Gleig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarship available on Buddhism in America. It charts the history and diversity of Buddhist communities, including traditions and communities that have been previously neglected, and looks at the ways in which Buddhist practices such as mindfulness meditation have been adopted in non-Buddhist settings.

The Miracle Myth

Author : Lawrence Shapiro
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542143
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Miracle Myth written by Lawrence Shapiro and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics, and the blessed can cure the terminally ill. Though miracles are immensely improbable, people have embraced them for millennia, seeing in them proof of a supernatural world that resists scientific explanation. Helping us to think more critically about our belief in the improbable, The Miracle Myth casts a skeptical eye on attempts to justify belief in the supernatural, laying bare the fallacies that such attempts commit. Through arguments and accessible analysis, Larry Shapiro sharpens our critical faculties so we become less susceptible to tales of myths and miracles and learn how, ultimately, to evaluate claims regarding vastly improbable events on our own. Shapiro acknowledges that belief in miracles could be harmless, but cautions against allowing such beliefs to guide how we live our lives. His investigation reminds us of the importance of evidence and rational thinking as we explore the unknown.