Consciousness, Valuation, and Religion: Toward a Paradigm
In a quest for fruitful theoretical ideas about the nature of religion, insights are drawn from traditional work in the sociology of religion, from recent work in psychology--concerning the nature of consciousness--and from our own embryonic thought on matters of religion and social reality. Two fun...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
1976
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Review of religious research
Year: 1976, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-35 |
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| Summary: | In a quest for fruitful theoretical ideas about the nature of religion, insights are drawn from traditional work in the sociology of religion, from recent work in psychology--concerning the nature of consciousness--and from our own embryonic thought on matters of religion and social reality. Two fundamental ideas are stressed. First, religion is associated with the acausal mode of consciousness. Second, the nature of "religion"--as an institution among institutions or as a more fundamental groundplan for the social order--is dependent on the potential of any cultural reality for dealing with the field of reference peculiar to the acausal mode of knowing. Two ideal cultural types are posited as contexts for phenomena which may be called religious, and a few suggestions are made for extending some of the theoretical ideas that are proposed. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510577 |