
Defining Religion
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Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and Dean Emeritus of the School of Theology at Boston University. He is the author of many books, including The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many: Confucian Essays on Metaphysics, Morals, Rituals, Institutions, and Genders, also published by SUNY Press.
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List of Tables
Preface
Part I: Heuristics
Preliminary Remarks
1. Problems of Definition
2. A Heuristic Definition of Religion
3.Theory of Religion in a Pragmatic Philosophical Theology
4. Modeling Ultimate Reality: God, Consciousness, and Emergence
Part II: Pragmatics
Preliminary Remarks
5. A Pragmatic Approach to Religious Experience
6. Semiotics versus Phenomenology: Existential and Hermeneutic Dimensions
7. Hermeneutic and Validity Dimensions of Religious Experience
8. Self-Reliance and the Portability of Pragmatism
Part III: Religious Studies
Preliminary Remarks
9. Why All Theology Should Be Comparative
10. Does the Study of Religion Need Philosophy?
11. Some Recommendations for the Future of Liberal Theology
12. Naturalism: So Easily Wrong
Part IV: Philosophical Theology
Preliminary Remarks
13. A Respectful Alternative to Process Theology: A Letter of Grateful and Affectionate Response to David Ray Griffin's Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance
14. The Triune God and Creation ex Nihilo, or "The One and the Many" Strikes Again
15. Perpetual Apophasis and the Existential Implosion of Worldviews
16. Ultimate Realities for the Sciences and Humanities
Part V: Players
Preliminary Remarks
17. John E. Smith: Doing Something with American Philosophy
18. Richard Rorty: Pragmatism, Metaphysics, Comparison, and Realism
19. William Desmond's Philosophical Theology
20. Nancy Frankenberry: Philosopher of Religion, Radical Empiricist, Herald of Contingency
Index
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