The sacred depths of nature : how life has emerged and evolved Second edition

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서명/저자사항	The sacred depths of nature: how life has emerged and evolved / Ursula Goodenough.
개인저자	Goodenough, Ursula, author.
판사항	Second edition.
형태사항	1 online resource (xx, 263 pages) : illustrations
기타형태 저록	Print version: Goodenough, Ursula. Sacred depths of nature Second edition. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] 9780197662069
ISBN	9780197662090 0197662099 9780197662076 0197662072 9780197662083 0197662080
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
소장본주기	OCLC control number change
요약	"When people talk about religion, most soon mention the major religious traditions of our times, but then, thinking further, most mention as well the religions of Indigenous peoples and of such vanished civilizations as ancient Greece and Egypt and Persia. That is, we have come to understand that there are-and have been-many different religions; anthropologists estimate the total in the thousands. They also estimate that there have been thousands of human cultures, which is to say that the making of a culture and the making of its religion go together: each religion is embedded in its cultural history. True, certain religions have attempted, and variously succeeded, in crossing cultural boundaries to "convert the heathens," but the invaded cultures usually put their unmistakable stamp on what they import, as evinced by the pulsating percussive Catholic masses sung in Africa. In the end, each of these religions addresses two fundamental human concerns: How Things Are and Which Things Matter. How Things Are is articulated as a Cosmology or Cosmos: How the natural world came to be, how humans came to be, what happens after we die, the origins of evil and tragedy and natural disaster and love. Which Things Matter becomes codified as a Morality or Ethos: the Judaic Ten Commandments, the Christian Sermon on the Mount, the Five Pillars of Islam, the Buddhist Vinaya, the Confucian Five Relations, and the understandings inherent in numerous Indigenous traditions. The role of a religion is to integrate the Cosmology and the Morality, to render the cosmological narrative so rich and compelling that it elicits our allegiance and our commitment to its attendant moral understandings. As a culture evolves, a distinctive Cosmos and Ethos appears in its co-evolving religion. For billions of us, back to the early humans, the stories, ceremonies and art associated with our religions-of-origin have been central to our lives. I stand in awe of these religions. I have no need to take on their contradictions or immiscibility, any more than I would quarrel with the fact that Scottish bagpipe ceremonies coexist with Japanese tea ceremonies. And indeed, the failure of Soviet Marxism to obliterate Russian Orthodoxy, and of Maoism to obliterate Buddhism, Confucianism, or Daoism, and of Christianity to obliterate Indigenous understandings, reminds us that projects designed to overthrow religious traditions face strong headwinds"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Biology --Philosophy. Biology --Religious aspects. Naturalism --Religious aspects. Nature --Religious aspects. Biology --Philosophy. Biology --Religious aspects. Naturalism --Religious aspects. Nature --Religious aspects.
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