Worldviews : a comprehensive approach to knowing self and others / John Valk.
Valk, John, 1951- author.
2021
BD161 .V35 2021
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Title Worldviews : a comprehensive approach to knowing self and others / John Valk.
Author Valk, John, 1951- author.
ISBN 9783030824914 (electronic book)
3030824918 (electronic book)
9783030824907 (hardcover)
303082490X (hardcover)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82491-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-82491-4 doi
Call Number BD161 .V35 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 121
Summary This book investigates the concept of worldview, in its numerous aspects, and how worldviews impact, shape, and influence individuals, communities, societies, and cultures. It explores various worldviewsreligious, spiritual, and secularusing a comprehensive approach to highlight their breadth, depth, and scope. John Valk argues that everyone has a worldview, and that worldview is often shaped and influenced by individual circumstances and situations. While worldviews have similar structures to one another, they vary in content, including differences in metanarratives, teachings, ethics, and more. In the course of explaining how worldviews respond to lifes ultimate and existential challenges, the book poses ontological questions to highlight various (world)views on the nature of being and the human, and epistemological questions pertaining to sources of knowledge and certainty. Inviting readers to reflect on their own worldviews as they explore the worldviews of others, Valk also reveals how certain universal worldview beliefs are interpreted in particular contexts. John Valk is Professor of Worldview Studies at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He is coauthor (with Halis Albayrak & Mualla Selcuk) of An Islamic Worldview from Turkey: Religion in a Modern, Secular and Democratic State (2017).
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1. Introduction
2. Personal and Group Identity
3. Cultural Dimensions
4. Ultimate/Existential Questions
5. Ontological/Epistemological Questions
6. Universal/Particular Beliefs, Values, and Principles
7. Concluding Reflections.

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