- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Religion / Ethics
Full Description
This volume brings together contributions on faith and meaning-making from across various disciplines into one place. Adherents of the Abrahamic faiths tend to hold that faith is an integral part of their lives. Moreover, it is often considered a life-changing event when a person comes to have religious faith. Alternatively, existential despair and dread are sometimes reported by the person who loses their religious faith. Not only is either type of event a significant moment in a person's life, but how a person's faith (or lack thereof) is lived out throughout the course of their life is also importantly connected to meaning.
This volume contains original essays on faith and meaning-making from the perspectives of philosophy, social science, and mental health, and as such constitutes a unique multidisciplinary resource. Religious Faith and Meaning-Making is essential reading for all scholars of religion and especially those focusing on the philosophy, psychology and sociology of religion.
Contents
Chapter One: Introduction: Tracing the Narrative.- Part I: Social Science Perspectives.- Chapter Two: Narrative Identity, Meaning, and Religious Community.- Chapter Three: The Over-Medicalization of Mental Disorder, Suffering, & Meaning-Making.- Chapter Four: Once More, with Feeling: The Ubiquity of Religious Ritual in Meaning-making.- Chapter Five: The Shield of Faith? Understanding Religiosity and Suicidality.- Chapter Six: Traps of Meaning: Need for Closure and Finding Meaning.- Part II: Philosophical Perspectives .- Chapter Seven: Would God be the Ultimate Attachment Figure? Some Hellish Implications.- Chapter Eight: Faith in Meaning, and Why it Fails.- Chapter Nine: The Shadow Side of Faith: Meaning Vs. Meaninglessness.- Chapter Ten: Metaphor, Meaning, and Religious Discourse: A Linguistic and Theological Archeology of the 'Liquidation of the Human Spirit'.- Chapter Eleven: On Making a Difference.- Chapter Twelve: Religious Meaning Without Religion: Adapting Herman Dooyeweerd's Pistic Aspect for a Non-Religious Context.