| Description |
280 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Chapter hy a godless gospel? 9 -- 01 w can lear omJ r ehigoj,s 12 -- VWaut aw t aodless gospl address 14 -- A quaif ieion6 or two 16 -- A pe soal l/iistoy 17 -- Chapter 2 - Reliion: t keeps on keeping on 20 -- /that does eliehion o?eY 21 -- 7he pesistenc of faith 22 -- Secult isation 24 -- The sociology and psychology of relgion 31 -- i st exactly how hard is the godless life? 35 -- Coclusion 37 -- Chapter 3 - Ritual 38 -- Why do humans love ritn:al 43 -- -4 -- Groups and t sal 45 -- ReUi ion and biuial 49 -- Rc ligon and music 51 -- rhie nual of p7-ter 54 -- Godless ritual 56 -- Chapter 4 - Belonging 68 -- Groups, helongn go and armln on 1 -- Unbehef and bhelongng 74 -- Chapter 5 ̃ Good and evil 75 -- Do you nced God to he good> 76 -- W hi a new moral 'quation need not -- hi frightning 83 -- nvil and religon the tanished record 86 -- A godiess mnoradit 90 -- Godless thcs 91 -- The ethics ofal ortion 108 -- [Hpe and the lea Coommandaantnts 112 -- hapter 6 - Consoling myths 115 -- "WR7at is myth? 117 -- Myth and scoial anthropology 121 -- The advantage of incumbency 124 -- Myth in the modern economy 126 -- Why myth co-exists with science 127 -- Hope-prophecy and millennial myths 128 -- The inevitability of myth 130 -- The acceptable face of myih 132 -- Chapter 7 - Death 138 -- Oh death where is th sting? 140 -- Religion and death 141 -- Does the afterlife worh? 142 -- The fear of one's own death 151 -- Acceptance 164 -- The Death of Others--Bereavement & Grief 171 -- Death - the bottom line 79 -- Chapter 8 - Mysticism 180 -- A concept of the rligious experience 182 -- Explanation of the religious expenie,ce 183 -- Can the atheist have a mystical experience? 188 -- Chapter 9 - Creation i90 -- On lust and creation 192 -- Science and religio 198 -- Natural Theology 203 -- A Godless Genesis 212 -- Creation - the bottom lie 221 -- Chapter 10 - Suffering and meaning 222 -- Spiritual ho'elessness 224 -- Suff ring 227 -- Meaning 237 -- Chapter 11 - Whither the odles? 252 |
| Analysis |
Conduct of life |
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Death |
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Life - Philosophy |
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Social ethics |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 258-272 |
| Subject |
Agnosticism.
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Atheism -- Popular works.
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Atheists.
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Conduct of life.
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Death -- Religious aspects.
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Death.
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Life.
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Secularism.
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Social ethics.
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| LC no. |
2002391152 |
| ISBN |
1864030593 |
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