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Tables of Contents for Why Religion Matters
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Preface
xiii
Introduction
1
6
Part One: Modernity's Tunnel
7
128
Who's Right About Reality: Traditionalists, Modernists, or the Postmoderns?
11
12
Modernity's Cosmological Achievement
Postmodernism's Fairness Revolution
The Traditional Worldview
The Great Outdoors and the Tunnel Within It
23
19
Worldviews: The Big Picture
The Decisive Alternative
Weighing the Alternatives
Sweetening the Sour Apple
How Much Is at Stake
Conclusion
The Tunnel as Such
42
17
The Flagship Book
The Tunnel in Question
A Disqualified Universe
Conclusion
The Tunnel's Floor: Scientism
59
20
The Flagship Book
Tracking Scientism
Spinoza's Conatus
Of Rocks and Pebbles
From Warfare to Dialogue
Colonizing Theology
The Tilt of the Negotiating Table
The Tunnel's Left Wall: Higher Education
79
24
The Flagship Book
What Happened
The Pull of Science on Other Disciplines
From Nonbelief to Disbelief
The Ineffectiveness of the Theological Response
The New Professionalism
Conclusion
The Tunnel's Roof: The Media
103
18
The Flagship Book
Kansas Update
The General Picture
Who Pays the Piper?
Conclusion
The Tunnel's Right Wall: The Law
121
14
The Flagship Book
Employment Division v. Smith
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Marginalizing Religion
Handling Creationism
Conclusion
Part Two: The Light at the Tunnel's End
135
144
Light
137
8
The Physics of Light
Light Subjectively Experienced
Conclusion
Is Light Increasing: Two Scenarios
145
9
God Is Dead
The Eyes of Faith
Clearing the Ground
Discerning the Signs of the Times
154
20
Straws in the Wind
Counterculture and the New Age Movement
Four Modern Giants Revisited
Three Sciences and the Road Ahead
174
13
Physics
Biology
Cognitive Psychology
Terms for the Detente
187
18
A Glimpse of David Bohm
Science Rightly Defined
The Limits of Science
Division of Labor
The Cow That Stands on Three Legs
This Ambiguous World
205
8
Life's Cosmic Inkblot
A Sidewise Glance at the Social Scene
The Big Picture
213
21
The Great Divide
Subdivisions
A Hierarchical Reality
Topdown Causation and the Multiple Degrees of Reality
Return to the Inkblot
Spiritual Personality Types
234
21
Characterology
Ubiquity
The Atheist: There Is No God
The Polytheist: There Are Many Gods
The Principle of One-Way Mirrors
The Monotheist: There Is One God
The Mystic: There Is Only God
Spirit
255
24
The Self/World Divide
Tacit Knowing
Spirit and Its Outworkings
Consciousness and Light
Happy Ending
Epilogue
We Could Be Siblings Yet
272
7
Index
279