Love, Religion, and Secularity

Autor: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Secular Studies. 3:177-186
ISSN: 2589-2525
2589-2517
DOI: 10.1163/25892525-bja10020
Popis: McCaffree's challenge to traditional definitions of religion, and his suggestion that religiosity is about individual integration into a moral community are discussed. This is taken as an opportunity to examine difficulties in defining religion, and attempts to go around the definition issues by offering analogies. Religious emotion, as discussed by William James and Emile Durkheim, is found to be no different than strong emotions directed at our secular commitments. Devotion, and self-sacrifice are discussed in both religious and secular context. The denial of death and fantasies about an afterlife are central to religion, and are unlikely to disappear in the foreseeable future.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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