Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Summary
"Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies. The drive for meaning-making is explored through ritual-symbolic activities, ideas of 'play', and the power of emotions to transform simple ideas into values and beliefs that frame identity and signpost destiny. Identity and its sacralisation are discussed alongside gift/reciprocity theory in their relation to ideas of merit, karma, and salvation in Eastern and Western traditions. This theoretical background is used to introduce a new classification of worldviews - natural, scientific, ancestral, karmic, prophetic-sectarian, mystical, and ideological. Organised thematically by chapter, this book brings together familiar and unfamiliar authors, theories, and sources to challenge students and teachers of Religious Studies, Theology, and Ethics. It introduces worldview religious studies as a framework through which to re-think human endeavours to identify, cope and even transcend life's flaws and perils"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Davies, Douglas J. Worldview religious studies Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022
Contents
Part 1 : Theories and Perspectives
Framing Worldviews
Religion and Religious Studies
Destiny, Ritual-Symbol and Gift
Evil, Merit, Salvation
Part 2 : Worldview Types
Types of Worldview
Natural Worldview
Scientific WorldvieW
Ancestral Worldview
Karmic Worldview
Prophetic Sectarian
Mystical Worldview
Ideological Worldview
Ludic Worldview
Seeing and Seeing-through Worldviews.