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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 |
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