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Religion and the Philosophy of Life (Hardcover)
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Religion and the Philosophy of Life (Hardcover)
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Religion and the Philosophy of Life considers how religion as the
source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of
humans through language and the somatic exploration of religious
ritual and prayer. Gavin Flood offers an integrative account of the
nature of the human, based on what contemporary scientists tell us,
especially evolutionary science and social neuroscience, as well as
through the history of civilizations. Part one contemplates
fundamental questions and assumptions: what the current state of
knowledge is concerning life itself; what the philosophical issues
are in that understanding; and how we can explain religion as the
driving force of civilizations in the context of human development
within an evolutionary perspective. It also addresses the question
of the emergence of religion and presents a related study of
sacrifice as fundamental to religions' views about life and its
transformation. Part two offers a reading of religions in three
civilizational blocks-India, China, and Europe/the Middle
East-particularly as they came to formation in the medieval period.
It traces the history of how these civilizations have thematised
the idea of life itself. Part three then takes up the idea of a
life force in part three and traces the theme of the philosophy of
life through to modern times. On the one hand, the book presents a
narrative account of life itself through the history of
civilizations, and on the other presents an explanation of that
narrative in terms of life.
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