Garden of Reality (eBook)

Transreligious Relativity in a World of Becoming

Roland Faber (Autor)

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2018
580 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7624-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Garden of Reality addresses urgent questions around the relativity of religious truth, religious pluralism, transreligious discourse, postmodern cosmology, and interspiritual mysticism in order to argue that relativity and multiplicity are inevitable for the multireligious conviviality and peace of the humanity of the future.

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The Garden of Reality contemplates the relativity of religious truth, religious pluralism, transreligious discourse, postmodern cosmology, and multireligious mysticism. Its transreligious approach aims at a future multireligious, peaceful society in an ecological and cosmic context. It proposes that the future of humanity is bound to conviviality with itself and the Earth, that the deepest religious motivations of existing together are relative to one another, and that transreligious relativity is essential to the conviction of religions that their motivations, experiences, and conceptualities are meaningful, real, and true. By engaging diverse voices from poststructuralism to Sufism, Dzogchen, and philosophical Daoism, from conceptual frameworks of Christianity and Hinduism to mystical and postmodern cosmology, current cosmopolitanism, and interreligious and interspiritual discourses, but especially understudied contributions of process thought and the Bah religion, this book suggests that multireligious conviviality must listen to the universal relevance of a multiplicity of minority voices. Its polyphilic pluralism affirms the mutual immanence and co-creative nature of religions and spiritualities with the universal in-sistence of divine or ultimate reality in the cosmos. Embracing a relativistic and evolutionary paradigm in an infinite cosmos of creative becoming, religions must cope with events of novelty that disturb and connect, transcend and contrast, the continuum of their truth claims, but must avoid conflict, as religious diversity is enveloped by an ever-folding landscape of ultimate reality.

Autor

Roland Faber is professor of process studies at Claremont School of Theology and professor of religion and philosophy at Claremont Graduate University.

Inhalt

Prologue: What Hath Multiplicity Wrought? 1. Commemoration2. Vignettes 3. Via Dolorosa4. Existentiality 5. The First Word (Event and Horizon)1. The Relativistic Code1. Palimpsest2. Variations, Permutations 3. Connectivity4. Apophasis 5. Infinite Worlds 6. Indetermination2. In A Gadda Da Vida1. Conviviality 2. Variation and Conflict 3. The Kingdom of Names4. Unity and Polyphilia 5. Subtractive Affirmation3. Laozi, Oscillating1. Resonances 2. Oscillating Contrasts 3. Meaningful Regresses 4. Mutual Incompleteness 5. The Many Ways of Truth and Unity4. Syncretic or Sympathic?1. Conjectures 2. Transreligious Flows 3. Multiplicity 4: Coinhabitation 5: The Indistinction of Suffering5. Be Transreligious!1. The Category “Transreligious” 2. Mystic Cosmology 3. The Cycle of Love 4. Infinite Worlds 5. Skillful Suspensions (Be Multiplicity!)6. Apophatic Ecstasies1. The Nameless Name 2. The Absolute, the All-Relational, the Surrelative 3. Impersonations 4. The Ultimate Manifold 5. Emanations, Insistence 6. Polyphilic Pluralism 7. The Buddha, Luminous1. Plurisingularity 2. The Luminous Mind 3. Uncompounded Reality4. Bhagavat 5. Khora (The Selfless Self) 6. The Tree of Life 8. Circumscriptions, Circulations1. Differentiations2. Bifurcations3. Multiplications4. Manifestations5. Reconciliations 6. Circulations9. Theopoetics and Cosmopolity1. The New Axial Age2. A New Cosmopolitanism (of the Event)? 3. Theopoetics and the Novelty of Truth4. Deconstructions 5. The Garden of Relativity (Omnirelativity)Epilogue: Clouds of Truth1. Reality, Clouded 2. The Transylvanian Argument 3. An Experiment with Truth 4. The Last Word (Magnitudes and Domains)

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Abdul Baha • Abdu’l Bahá • A. N. Whitehead • Bahai • Bahá'í Faith • Bahaullah • Bahá'u'lláh • Christianity • Comparative Religion • Cosmopolitanism • Daoism • Dzogchen • Hinduism • Mysticism • Philosophical Cosmology • pluralism • postmodern • process theology • Relativism • Relativity of Religious Truth • Religious pluralism • Sufism • transreligious discourse • Whitehead
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7624-9 / 1498576249
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7624-6 / 9781498576246