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An analysis of religious, as well as humanist, worldviews requires certain capabilities and qualities. A great variety of approaches have now emerged within the realm of scholarship, some empirical, others psychological and even biological. Many of these have explored at length the themes of 'f...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2009
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2009, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-115 |
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| Summary: | An analysis of religious, as well as humanist, worldviews requires certain capabilities and qualities. A great variety of approaches have now emerged within the realm of scholarship, some empirical, others psychological and even biological. Many of these have explored at length the themes of 'free will', remembrance, learning, models of development, ethics and emotions. With all of this has come some confidence, but also a good deal of doubt. Studies on pro-social behaviour, cultural differences and 'de-individualisation' have yielded hints on how people might behave in order to master demanding personal and social situations, but historical examples and cultural comparisons have produced no firm conclusions from which individuals or collective groups might draw. What makes a catastrophe in one case but avoids one in another so often depends on the most slender and subtle nuances. Many societies have, in the course of their history, referred to all kinds of divine 'providence', turned to a fatalist understanding of their affairs or affirmed a harmonious consonance of belief and reason. In short, they venture up all sorts of garden paths. History does not present a basis for forecasting the future and a scholar might instead warn that a craving to find meaning in events often merely leads to the construction of belief systems, holistic explanations and propaganda - and all the problematic consequences which they bring with them. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/kize.2009.22.1.66 |