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Critical Realism and Spirituality contextualizes, delineates, explores and critiques the turn to spirituality and religion in critical realism, which has been under way since the mid-1990s, as well as telling its story. It provides incisive discussion and anaysis of the following broad questions:
How does critical realism allow and facilitate the resolution of problems in the area of comparative religion?
Can it help you to justify your own faith or belief?
What are the implications of the new philosophy of meta-Reality for traditional religious studies and how we organize and conduct our lives?
A range of distinguished critical realists, theological critical realists and scholars working with related approaches (Roland Benedikter, Roy Bhaskar, Terry Eagleton, Mervyn Hartwig, Alister McGrath, Markus Molz, Jamie Morgan, Andrew Wright and others) bring their talents to bear on this task. While their personal beliefs span the whole spectrum from theism to atheism, they are united by the desire to open up a space for dialogue of one kind or another (intra-faith, inter-faith and/or extra-faith), promoting mutual understanding, respect and the unity and capability for collective emancipatory action on a global scale that humanity is so sorely in need of. This book is therefore, essential reading for students and academics alike in Religous Studies, Theology and Philosophy.
Contents
Introduction Part I The Resurgence of Religion and Spirituality 1. The rise of neo-integrative worldviews: towards a rational spirituality for the coming planetary civilization? 2. Beyond fundamentalism: spiritual realism, spiritual literacy and education 3. Realism, literature and spirituality Part II Theism and Atheism 4. Judgemental rationality and the equivalence of argument: realism about God 5. Response to Morgan's critique 6. Transcendence and God: reflections on critical realism, the 'New Atheism', and Christian theology 7. Human sciences at the edge of panentheism: God and the limits of ontological realism 8. Beyond East and West Part III Spirituality and meta-Reality 9. Meta-Reality (re-)contextualized 10. Anti-anthropic spirituality: dualism, duality and non-duality 11. 'The more you kick God out the front door, the more he comes in through the window': Sean Creaven's critique of transcendental dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of meta-Reality 12. Resisting the theistic turn 13. The pulse of freedom and the existential dilemma of alienation 14. Meta-Reality, creativity and the experience of making art
