READINGS
LINKS FOR REL 198
For the 4 Humanities Base "Common Readings"
and the Reading Guides ["RGs"] related to each of them:
Genesis 1-3;
The Sermon of the Buddha at Benares;
Mark's Gospel;
and
Phyllis Trible: Genesis 2-3 re-read.
Use the links at:
Reading
Guides
READINGS -- associated with specific
chapters in the main text:
In the Presence of Mystery
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With Ch. 1: on primitive
religion and culture
Dennis
Werner, Amazon Journey: on the Mekranoti
and Napoleon
Chagnon: on the Yanomami
With Ch. 2: non-religious
explanations of religion
Sigmund
Freud: from The Future of an Illusion
and
Mircea
Eliade, on religious experience
With Ch. 3: examples of the
search for the single Ultimate
The
Hindu Tradition: from the Rig Vega and Upanishads
and the Tao
Te Ching, two passages
With Ch. 5: examples of a
variety of Judaeo-Christian ideas:
After
Death: from Deuteronomy, Daniel, Revelation, and I Corinthians
and two moderns in disagreement on world-rejection:
C. S.
Lewis and Julian Huxley on the end of life
With Ch. 6 & 7: an analysis of
society, religion, & identity:
Notes on Peter Berger's The Sacred Canopy
With Ch. 8: two brief readings:
Kohlberg,
Summary and
"On
Different Types of Morality"
With Ch. 9: a reading from
Islam on interpreting a sacred text:
Islam and Bida (innovation)
With Ch. 11: the first three (of
five) proofs
for God's existence in:
Thomas
Aquinas, Summa Theologica Selection: Anselm's Proslogion
And
William James, "The Will to Believe
With. Ch. 11 & 12: on
Deism: Boyle and
Paley
On the effect of the theory of evolution on religious
thought:
Darwin:
excerpt from a letter
[Link
to Darwin PPt]
and On Marx's atheism: Karl Marx
With
Ch. 13. Radical skepticism in existentialism
Excerpt from Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism is a
Humanism. With Ch. 14.
On a secular orientation in liberation theology:
Excerpt from Gustavo Gutierrez' A Theology
of Liberation
Some extra readings --
optional, for the curious.
With ch. 2 on folktales:
"Why
Does the Bat Fly at Dusk?"
and on mythology: from Hesiod's
Works and Days.
With ch. 4: on "the problem of
evil"
Theodicies
-- justifying the ways of God to humans
With ch. 8: honor
societies; acceptance morality
Honor
Killing in a Turkish Village
With ch. 12: Galileo on how to
compare the Bible with science
Letter
to the Grand Duchess Christina
With the Epilogue: James
Fowlers's Stages of Faith
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