Miracles : an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion / Karen R. Zwier, David L. Weddle, Timothy D. Knepper, editors.
Zwier, Karen R. editor.; Weddle, David L. (David Leroy), 1942- editor.; Knepper, Timothy D., editor.
2022
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Title Miracles : an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion / Karen R. Zwier, David L. Weddle, Timothy D. Knepper, editors.
ISBN 9783031148651 (electronic bk.)
3031148657 (electronic bk.)
3031148649
9783031148644
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14865-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-14865-1 doi
Call Number BT97.3
Dewey Decimal Classification 202/.117
Summary This volume provides a comparative philosophical investigation into a particular concept from a variety of anglesin this case, the concept of "miracle." The text covers deeply philosophical questions around the miracle, with a multiplicity of answers. Each chapter brings its own focus to this multifaceted effort. The volume rejects the primarily western focus that typically dominates philosophy of religion and is filled with particular examples of miracle narratives, community responses, and polemical scenarios across widely varying religious contexts and historical periods. Some of these examples defy religious categorization, and some papers challenge the applicability of the concept "miracle" which is of western and monotheistic origin. By examining miracles thru a wide comparative context, this text presents a range of descriptive content and analysis, with attention to the audience, to the subjective experiences being communicated, and to the flavor of the narratives that come to surround miracles. This book appeals to students and researchers working in philosophy of religion and science, as well those in comparative religion. It represents, in written form, some of the perspectives and dialogue achieved in The Comparison Projects 20172019 lecture series on miracles. The Comparison Project is an enterprise in comparing a variety of religious voices, allowing them to stand in dialogue. .
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Added Author Zwier, Karen R. editor.
Weddle, David L. (David Leroy), 1942- editor.
Knepper, Timothy D., editor.
Series Comparative philosophy of religion ; v. 3.
Available in Other Form MIRACLES.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Miracles in Religious Traditions
Chapter 2: How to Tell a Miracle Story: The Amazing Deeds of Young Krishna
Chapter 3: Inconvenient Wonders: Ambivalence in Hasidism about the Miraculous Powers of the Tsaddik
Chapter 4: Quranic Miracle Stories: Surprising Implications for Theodicy, Transience, and Freedom
Chapter 5: Expecting the Unexpected: Pentecostal Miracles as Performance, Production, and Placeholder
Part II: Miracles in Polemics
Chapter 6: On Miracles in the Vimalakirti Sutra during Early Medieval Period of China
Chapter 7: "By Whose Authority?" Polemical and Political Uses of Miracle Stories
Part III: Miracles of Healing
Chapter 8: Miracle as Natural: A Contemporary Chinese American Religious Healer
Chapter 9: What Miracles in the Global South Contribute to Understanding the Human Condition
Part IV: Miracles and Morality
Chapter 10: The Ethics of Wonder: Miracles, Magic, and Morality in Devotional Hinduism
Chapter 11: Miracles: Two Lakota Case Studies
Part V: Miracles, Logic, and Science
Chapter 12: Miracles in Philosophical Analysis
Chapter 13: Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action and Quantum Mechanics
Chapter 14 Miracles and the Uniformity of Nature
Chapter 15: Investigating Miracles
Part VI: Miracles and Mysticism
Chapter 16: Changed in a Flash: How One Woman Was Struck by Lightning, Talked to God, and Came Back to Dream the Future
Part VII: Comparative Conclusions
Chapter 17: On the Epistemic Function of Miracles
Chapter 18: Miracles: So What?.

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