Secular Spirituality The Next Step Towards Enlightenment /

• Main Author: Walach, Harald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 4
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Religion > Philosophy.; Religion and culture.; Philosophy of Religion.; Sociology of Culture.; History of Science.

This book discusses spirituality as an emerging scientific topic from a historical perspective, with extensive discussion of the mind-body problem and of scientific concepts of consciousness. While the book focuses on the Western tradition of ‘Enlightenment’, it also implicitly addresses the double...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Clarifications and Presuppositions
• Chapter 2: The Historical Framework: Enlightenment, Science, and the Difficulties with the Notion of God
• Chapter 3: Spirituality, Taboo, and the Opportunity for Science
• Chapter 4: Secular, Non-Dogmatic Spirituality
• Chapter 5: Distortions, Dangers, Further Considerations
• Chapter 6: Getting on with Enlightenment: The Necessity of a Secular Non-dogmatic Spirituality.