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Title The secular quest for meaning in life : Denton papers in implicit religion / edited by Edward Bailey.

Publication Info. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (386 pages)
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Summary This collection of twenty papers originally contributed to the annual Denton Conferences in Implicit Religion bespeaks, through the range and quality of its contents, the achievement of its editor in gaining currency for the concept of "implicit religion" in a project spanning three decades. As Dr. Bailey immediatly concedes, the concept of implicit religion has been criticized for lacking analytical specificity, transgressing appropriate boundaries and promoting an empirically over-inclusive understanding of religion and spirituality. This volume of Denton Papers in Implicit Religio.
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword by Ninan Smart; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction- The Notion of Implicit Religion: What It Means, and Does NotMean; Part I: The Conceptual Position of Implicit Religion; Chapter 1: The Secular Practice as Implicit Religion- Martin Goodridge; Chapter 2: The Metaphysics of Secular Institutions- Peter McCaffery; Chapter 3: The Sacred as Surrogate: notes on implicit a-religion- N J Demerath III; Commentary; Chapter 4: Ethnic Jokes as an Expression of Implicit Religious Values and Religious Identity- Christie Davies.
Chapter 5: Diffused Religion: Theory and Practice- Roberto CiprianiChapter 6: Charisma Today- Meerten ter Borg; Commentary; Chapter 7: The Experience of Transcendence in Contemporary Culture- Alistair Kee; Chapter 8: Epiphany and Apocalypse in the Post-modern- David Lyon; Chapter 9: On the Possibility of Naturalistic Religions- Vasilios N. Makrides; Commentary; Chapter 10: The Centrality of the Concept of Implicit Religion for Religious Studies- John Badertscher; Chapter 11: The Priority of the Holy- Whilhelm Dupre; Chapter 12: Implicit Religion: Ineddability- Paul Heelas; Commentary.
Part II: Some Empirical Applications of the Concept of Implicit ReligionChapter 13: Implicit Religion: The Hospice Experience- Derek Boyd Murray; Chapter 14: Lapidary Texts: Europe's War Memorials- a liturgy fit for heroes- Jon Davies; Chapter 15: Religion in the Capital Area of Finland- Tapio Lampinen; Chapter 16: Antisatanism as a Social Movement- William H. Swatos Jr.; Commentary; Chapter 17: The Religion of Politics- Geoffrey Scobie; Chapter 18: The Sacralisation of Political Ideology: Implicit Religion in the American Frontier Tradition- Robert E. Beckley and H. Paul Chalfant.
Chapter 19: Religion and Football: The Cult of the Fighting Gamecock- Hal FrenchChapter 20: Notes on the Religiousity of 'Scientific' Methods of Psychotherapy- Roger Grainger; Commentary; Epilogue; Epilogue: The Future of Implicit Religion; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.
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Subject Implicit religion -- Congresses.
Implicit religion.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Bailey, Edward I. (Edward Ian)
Other Form: Print version: Bailey, Edward I. Secular Quest for Meaning in Life Denton Papers in Implicit Religion. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2002 9780773412392
ISBN 9780773412392 (electronic book)
0773412395 (electronic book)
0773469990
9780773469990