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Excellent beauty [electronic resource] : the naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of the world / Eric Dietrich

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Dietrich, Eric
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
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xvi, 191 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents
The traveler to excellent beauty : invited rather than drafted -- Of spiritual journeys--What is a religion? -- The one billion -- The traveler's dark night of the soul -- Appendix to chapter 4. Statistics and probability meet job -- The biology of religion, the psychology of morality -- Justifying the ways of God to man .. via evolution -- Appendix to chapter 5. Yes, there really is such a thing as a coincidence -- Does God want you dead? -- Good without gods -- The journey in tatters -- Beyond atheism : the religion illusion -- The Janus-faced hominid -- The heretic's way : into the mysterious realm -- Some strangeness in the proportion -- Appendix to chapter 10. A compendium of mysteries -- The beauty of seeing more than we can understand -- Appendix to chapter 11. Welcome to the inscrutable -- The personal mystery and the impersonal God -- Summa mysteriologica.
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ISBN
9780231171021 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231539357 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.
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