The Funny Thing about Secularism
This article delineates a Christian and a Buddhist basis for secularism in order to demonstrate that secularism can take very different forms. The primary difference is the presence or absence of a cosmological discourse that strives for ontological verity. Although Christian secularism rejects beli...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Mohr Siebeck
[2017]
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Philosophy, theology and the sciences
Year: 2017, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 74-93 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BL Buddhism CA Christianity CF Christianity and Science |
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| Summary: | This article delineates a Christian and a Buddhist basis for secularism in order to demonstrate that secularism can take very different forms. The primary difference is the presence or absence of a cosmological discourse that strives for ontological verity. Although Christian secularism rejects belief in God, it maintains a parallel concern with cosmological knowledge in the form of scientific naturalism. Buddhist secularism accepts references to otherworldly realms but does not presume or require them to be ostensible and mind-independent. Buddhism is ultimately more humancentered in its focus, but for that reason it falls short of the transcendent aspirations of Christian secularism. |
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| ISSN: | 2197-2834 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy, theology and the sciences
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/219597717X14884498299123 |