Godless gospel : a modern guide to meaning and morality / Dick Gross
- Bib ID:
- 2959183
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gross, Dick
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Sydney : Pluto Press, 1999
- 280 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1864030593
- Full contents:
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- 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
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- 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.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 258-272.
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- Copyright:
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