Science, Humanism, and Religion The Quest for Orientation /

• Main Author: Jung, Matthias (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Humanism and Atheism
• Subjects: Humanism.; Religions.; Religion and sociology.; Comparative Religion.; Sociology of Religion.

In the human quest for orientation vis-à-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role. Yet it is the ordinary, embodied experience of meaningful engagement with reality in which all these cult...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Orientation as a Life-Function
• 2. Science versus Scientism: Is There Such a Thing as the Scientific Worldview?
• 3. Varieties of Naturalism and Humanism
• 4. Rediscovering the Importance of Ordinary Experience
• 5. The Unavoidability of Worldviews
• 6. Worldviews and the Limits of Philosophy
• 7. Coda: Blocked Roads and Genuine Options.