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Living Religion - Embodiment, Theology, and the Possibility of a Spiritual Sense (Hardcover)
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Living Religion - Embodiment, Theology, and the Possibility of a Spiritual Sense (Hardcover)
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Is it reasonable to live a religiously oriented life, or is such a
life the height of irrationality? Has neuroscience shown that
religious experiences are akin to delusions, or might neuroscience
actually support the validity of such experiences? In Living
Religion James W. Jones offers a new approach to understanding
religion after the Decade of the Brain. The modern tendency to
separate theory from practice gives rise to a number of dilemmas
for those who think seriously about religion. Claims about God, the
world, and the nature and destiny of the human spirit have been
ripped from their context in religious practice and treated as
doctrinal abstractions to be justified or refuted in isolation from
the living religious life that is their natural home. Jones argues
that trends in contemporary psychology, especially an emphasis on
embodiment and relationality, can help the thoughtful religious
person return theory to practice, thereby opening up new avenues of
religious knowing and new ways of supporting the commitment to a
religiously lived life. This embodied-relational model offers new
ways of understanding our capacity to transform and transcend our
ordinary awareness and shows that it can be meaningful and
reasonable to speak of a "spiritual sense." The brain's complexity,
integration, and openness, and the many ways embodiment influences
our understanding of ourselves and the world, all significantly
impact our thinking about religious understanding. When linked to
contemporary neuroscientific theories, the long-standing tradition
of a spiritual sense is brought up to date and deployed in support
of the argument of this book that reason is on the side of those
who choose a religiously lived life.
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