Here we look at the notion of religion, understanding a religion as a cultural or symbolic framework or set of practices, ideas, etc. that aims to orient the human person and species within the broader cosmic or universal context: the consequences are several, including that it recasts certain aspects of the scientific project itself as having a deeply religious ground, and its renders the relationship of the religious and the political as a close one...
Among the challenges we encounter in our public conversations is a welter of confusion around crucial terms which, though widely used, are rarely defined... or at least rarely defined explicitly. The consequence is a situation where rather than aiding progress in conversation, they frequently impede it. This is one effort to encourage remedy of this impasse by at least approaching the definition of some of these terms...
Monday, April 25, 2016
Approaching Definitions - What is Religion?
Here we look at the notion of religion, understanding a religion as a cultural or symbolic framework or set of practices, ideas, etc. that aims to orient the human person and species within the broader cosmic or universal context: the consequences are several, including that it recasts certain aspects of the scientific project itself as having a deeply religious ground, and its renders the relationship of the religious and the political as a close one...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment