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Tables of Contents for The Global Philosophy of Religion
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures, tables and boxes
xi
Acknowledgments
xii
Introduction
1
1
The problem of religious commitment
2
2
Religious epistemology
4
1
The World Religions
5
1
The relation of scientific to philosophical approaches to religion
6
2
Against global theology or a global philosophy of religion
8
1
The way of knowledge versus the way of love
9
4
Religion And Philosophy
13
16
What is religion?
13
8
What is Philosophy?
21
2
Doing philosophy and using philosophy
23
1
Are philosophy and religion enemies?
24
2
Why religion needs philosophy
26
3
Worldviews And Religion
29
15
The problem of religious plurality
30
1
Can different worldviews be compared?
31
3
Exclusivism and Antipathy
34
1
Subjectivism and Pluralism
35
2
Inclusivism and Henofideism
37
4
A road map of world religiosity
41
3
Religious Metaphysics Without God
44
16
The material world versus the Transcendent
45
1
Buddhism and metaphysics
46
7
Theological realism versus religious non-realism
53
4
The advantages of non-theism
57
3
Religious Metaphysics With God
60
19
God and monotheism
60
1
Hindu theistic Vedanta
61
4
Hindu henotheism
65
3
YHWH, the Trinity, and Allah
68
2
An ontological argument for God's existence
70
6
The advantages of theism
76
3
A Posteriori Arguments For God's Existence
79
15
The nature of proofs
80
1
Cosmological arguments
81
4
Teleological arguments
85
7
The value of theistic ``proofs'' and cumulative arguments
92
2
Evil: An Argument Against Monotheism
94
16
The problem of evil
94
1
The strong formulation of the problem of evil
95
3
The weak formulation of the problem of evil
98
1
Theodicies and the free will defense
99
4
The Augustinian theodicy and hell
103
2
Soul-making theodicies
105
2
The best possible world
107
3
Embodiment, Gender, And Good
110
14
Incarnation and embodiment
111
1
Feminine divine metaphors
112
3
The problem of reference and representation
115
1
Sexual metaphors
115
3
Symbols, sexuality, and God
118
6
Life After Death
124
19
The religious importance of life after death
124
1
The problem of death
125
1
Conceptions of the self
126
7
Buddhist reincarnation
133
3
The evolving soul
136
4
Will you be there?
140
3
Religious Experience
143
16
Religious experience and scriptural authority
143
3
Justification and religious knowledge
146
2
Ineffability and mystical experiences
148
2
The problem of privacy
150
2
Kant's attempted solution
152
4
Historicity, pluralism, and faith
156
3
Using Science To Argue Against Religion
159
13
Does physics explain everything?
160
2
What does evolutionary biology tell us about religion?
162
3
Is religion just a cultural phenomenon?
165
2
Is religion just a psychological phenomenon?
167
2
The compatibility of science and religion
169
3
Morality, Ethics, And Religion
172
20
Morality and ethics
172
2
Secular ethics
174
4
Moral duty and religion
178
5
Are morality and religion logically connected?
183
4
The moral point of view and the religious point of view
187
5
Prudential Arguments For Religious Belief
192
12
Pascal's Wager
193
4
Religion as a live option
197
1
Karma and samsara
197
3
Is religion cost-effective?
200
4
Faith And Justified Believers
204
12
Evidentialism and religious belief
205
2
Why religious beliefs are properly basic
207
3
Faith commitments, worldviews, and conversion
210
2
Religion as a genuine option
212
4
Love And The Meaning Of Life
216
16
Values and the religious dimension of meaning
217
3
Science and religion revisited
220
2
Seraphic love
222
1
Six characteristics of eros
223
3
The argument from love
226
3
Faith, love, and religion
229
3
Glossary
232
15
Notes
247
12
Index
259