The Secular Faith Controversy: Religion in Three Dimensions (Issues in Contemporary Religion Series) Book

	Preface
	Introduction: A model of society, consciousness and religion
Pt. I	The religious situation in three dimensions
1	Problems	7
	Prelude: common misconceptions and three groups	7
1	For practitioners of religion: explicating the implicit	14
2	For leaders of religion: valuing the occasional	18
3	For students of religion: gauging the transcendent	22
	Postlude: the disciples' dilemma	27
2	Reactions	31
	Prelude: 'modernizing' Methodism	31
1	Denying identity: conformity, insincerity and apathy	33
2	Maximizing difference: ritual, dogma and culture	36
3	Ignoring evidence: categories, experience and humanness	40
	Postlude: changing meaning	45
3	Alternatives	47
	Prelude: consensus among the faithful	47
1	In general: acknowledging, cooperating, communing	48
2	For specialists: distinguishing, communicating, incorporating	51
3	Among analysts: recognizing, reconceptualizing, remodelling	54
	Postlude: Durkheim's 'sacred'	57
Pt. II	Religion in three dimensions
4	A three-dimensional model of religiosity	63
	Prelude: the need for three dimensions	63
1	Social experience: ecology, society, culture	64
2	Human consciousness: intensification - bifurcation, individuation - interrelationship, conscientization - contextualization	68
3	Religious experience: sensing, encountering, committing	70
	Postlude: being personal three ways	73
5	The three dimensions of religious experience	77
	Prelude: religious studies as religious	77
1	Its content: the sacred, the holy and the human	78
2	Its extrapolation: integrity, identity and divinity	81
3	Its intrapolation: bird, worm and mole	83
	Postlude: religion and implicit religion	85
6	Some applications	89
	Prelude: a working model?	89
1	Religious: spiritual discernment, religious discrimination and final judgement	90
2	Spiritual: coinherence and intercession, adoration and confession, contemplation and worship	93
3	Human: growing, doing, dying	96
	Postlude	100
App	Spirituality, religion and consciousness: a development model	103
	Bibliography	105
	Index	109