The creation of God [electronic resource] / Rik Pinxten.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gods, humans, and religions ; no. 19Publication details: Bruxelles ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, c2010.Description: 252 p. : illUniform titles:
  • Goddelijke Fantasie. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 210 22
LOC classification:
  • BL48 .P528 2010eb
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Contents:
Religion : a first approach -- Old and new models -- Science and religion : where do I stand? -- Religion, identity and learning processes -- General concepts and terms -- Cosmology and religion -- Religious action -- Different 1. Birth and baptism. A view of an anthropologist and atheist -- Religious language -- Complex religious phenomena -- Religious ways of learning -- Different 2. Genesis in the Bible. The creation of heaven and the earth -- Religious artifacts -- Politics, ethics and fundamentalism -- Atheistic religiosity?.
Summary: "This book develops a scientific approach to the phenomenon of religion. It is the conviction of the author that such an approach can only be comparative in nature, in order to overcome centuries of religiously-biased views on religion."--Publisher.
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"First edition, fully updated here, appeared as Goddelijke Fantasie, Antwerp, Belgium with Houtekiet Publ. in 2000."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Religion : a first approach -- Old and new models -- Science and religion : where do I stand? -- Religion, identity and learning processes -- General concepts and terms -- Cosmology and religion -- Religious action -- Different 1. Birth and baptism. A view of an anthropologist and atheist -- Religious language -- Complex religious phenomena -- Religious ways of learning -- Different 2. Genesis in the Bible. The creation of heaven and the earth -- Religious artifacts -- Politics, ethics and fundamentalism -- Atheistic religiosity?.

"This book develops a scientific approach to the phenomenon of religion. It is the conviction of the author that such an approach can only be comparative in nature, in order to overcome centuries of religiously-biased views on religion."--Publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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