By James Thrower
This entire creation to theories of faith is the 1st single-volume exploration of principles recommend via either believers and non-believers.
James Thrower analyzes the different sorts of causes of faith, not only the recommendations of people, complicated primarily―but now not exclusively―from in the Western culture. He starts via spiritual motives of faith, which outline faith as revelation, adventure or philosophy (Plato, Kant, and Hegel). He then examines the naturalist, or nonreligious, causes, from the disciplines of anthropology, psychology, and sociology, together with the "masters of suspicion" (including Feurbach, Nietzsche, Marx, Tylor, Frazer, and Freud). The scope of this e-book levels from the classical, Semitic, and Indian spiritual traditions via modern thinkers.
Thrower concludes by way of contemplating the way forward for the religions of the area in mild of the more and more shut inter-religious encounters which are changing into a characteristic of the worldwide village of the twenty-first century.
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