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Now available for your Kindle! Here's a quote from one satisfied customer's email, after reading the 3rd edition of this book:
People long to make sense of life; to find some key that will unlock its mysteries and enable them to understand themselves and their place within the universe. Faced with their own fragility and death, they seek courage or comfort. Longing to develop and create, they seek inspiration.
In this human quest for meaning, some take to philosophy, others to the creative arts, and others - in fact the majority of humankind - take to some form of religion. Almost every profound aspect of life - from sexuality to artistic creativity, or from the emotional trauma of prolonged suffering or bereavement to the spontaneous expression of wonder at natural beauty - may become the raw material out of which a religious interpretation of life can be built.
But why? What are religious beliefs, and how do they relate to the rest of our understanding of life? Can they be justified rationally? Are they a mental springboard, launching us into a deeper exploration and appreciation of life, or a mental prison, closing our minds to reason and evidence? Or are they neither, but only our use (or misuse) of them makes them so?
… just some of the questions that are explored in this book.
The new, 4th edition of this book has been revised and re-designed, with end-of-chapter checklists, insight boxes and short summaries of the subject.
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For those checking topics requires for examinations... Life after Death is considered under 'The Self' and Miracles are considered under Religion and Science.
CONTENTS Introduction 01 Religious experience 02 Religious language 03 God: the concepts 04 God: the arguments 05 Atheism and humanism 06 The self 07 Psychology and religion 08 Suffering and evil 09 Religion and science 10 Religion and society Postscript Taking it further Glossary
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