Facing Up to Mortality

Interfaith/Interreligious Explorations

Buch | Hardcover

186 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-5542-4 (ISBN)

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Exploring a new approach to interfaith/interreligious communication, the contributors to this collection seek to interact from the perspective of their own tradition or academic discipline with Ernest Becker's theory on the relationship between religion, culture and the human awareness of death and mortality. While much interfaith/interreligious dialogue focuses on beliefs and practices, thus delineating areas of disagreement as a starting point, these chapters foster interactive communication rooted in areas of the universal human experience. Thus by demonstration these authors argue for the integrity and efficacy of this approach for pursuing intercultural and interdisciplinary communication.

Daniel Liechty is professor of social work and distinguished lecturer in arts and sciences at Illinois State University.

Introduction

Daniel Liechty

Chapter One:

God is Sometimes Great! The Glory and Shame of Religion

Sheldon Solomon and Spee Kosloff

Chapter Two:

The Nature of Consciousness:

A Nondual (Advaita) Dialogue with Ernest Becker

Anantanand Rambachan

Chapter Three:

Religion as Umbrella, Religion as Path:

A Buddhist Perspective on Death Denial and Life Transformation

David R. Loy

Chapter Four:

L’Dor v’Dor: The Intergenerational Style of Hebraic ‘Immortality’

Paul Cantz

Chapter Five:

Heroism, Sacrifice, and Jewish Identity:

Exploring Rabbinic Readings of the Esther Story

Jonathan Cohen

Chapter Six:

Naming Our Incompleteness:

A Christian Encounter with Ideas of Ernest Becker

Daniel Liechty

Chapter Seven:

Death, Self, and Political Survival in Islam and Islamicate Contexts

Anas Malik

Chapter Eight:

The Sacred Cosmos: Transcendence Without Absolutism

Merlyn E. Mowrey

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2021
Co-Autor	Paul Cantz, Jonathan Cohen, Spee Kosloff
Vorwort	J. Dana Trent
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 238 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	1-7936-5542-1 / 1793655421
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-5542-4 / 9781793655424
Zustand	Neuware