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Religious and Secular Views on Endtime: (No. 42 Mellen Studies in Sociology S.)

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Discussion of significant changes in conditions of human living are part of today's context. A salient construct for grasping these issues is "endtime," or narrative transformation of the current situation into religious or secular contexts. This book builds on a sociological approach to cognition, emotions, and constructions of time to show the motivational force of endtime thinking and identity. Six narratives are summarized to illustrate the transformative power of religious narratives by contrast with a scientific and a philosophical narrative. Religious narratives begin with acts of faith in texts and worldview. Membership in faith communities excludes those who do not believe and projects different futures for believers and non-believers, one saved and the other not. The following summaries illustrate the exclusivist power of such transformative narratives: Catholic Papal discussion of the Millenium; premillenial dispensationalist fundamentalist Protestant texts; rationales for the group suicide by members of Heaven's Gate at Rancho Santa Fe; and Osama bin Laden's religious legitimations of suicide-martyr terrorist actions. Scientific narratives, by contrast, rely on empirical indicators and public discourse. Any competent person can participate in these narratives, and the world they describe applies to all humans and relevant terrestrial systems. Scientific narratives are inclusivist epistemologically and consequentially. Summaries of empirical aspects of environmental issues and of a philosophical reflection on the current state of the world illustrate the inclusivity of secular transformative narratives. Finally, each person is responsible for choosing a narrative both to believe and to enact. Only those that are empirical and inclusive offer a possibility of this-worldly hope.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Our Time Together Is of the Essence; Author's Preface; Why Care About Endtime; Introduction; Imagined Futures Within Reach; Endtime Thinking; Eschatological Identity, Time, and Motivation: The End Is A Beginning; Telling Endtimes; Available Futures: Selected Transformations of Time and Identity; Self and Identity Dialectics: Inclusive vs Exclusive Futures; Bibliography; Index; List of Figures


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780773463233
  • Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
  • Height: 235 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0773463232
  • Publisher Date: /01/2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Series Title: No. 42 Mellen Studies in Sociology S.


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