Self-reflexivity of Religion
It would be interesting to answer the question of whether or not The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) is a religious story by testing against ‘religion is an explanatorily intelligible…
Read moreCreation: Spontaneous or Intentional
If we want to grasp the nature of the discussions in the Indian traditions, there is much we need to do beforehand: (a) identify the entity they were talking about;…
Read moreIntentional and Causal explanations
The first question: could we have EIA of units smaller than the Cosmos? An explanatorily intelligible account of any object, whatever that object is, is one where causal (say) and…
Read moreWhy Heathens are blind to religion?
Of course, the concept of explanatorily intelligible account is not easy to grasp: if it were, the ‘heathens’ would not be blind to the existence of religion. However, that does…
Read moreIntelligibility: Religion, Belief, Meaning
I Let me begin by clarifying what the notion of intelligibility says. 1. The first thing to keep in mind is that Religion makes (i.e. transforms, renders, or any such…
Read moreExtended reproduction of religion and revitalization of Indian traditions
1. Why did Christianity become a ‘universal’ religion? How did Christians replace the ‘chosen’ people? What was the logic behind the transformation of the Jewish god into God of the…
Read moreThe dynamic of religion: secularization and proselytization
1. Let us begin with the idea that religion is some kind of a system (or structure or whatever you feel like using) that maintains itself. That is to say,…
Read moreIs Bible an explanatorily intelligle account of Cosmos and of itself?
When a religion claims that it is the word of God and that the word is unconditionally true; and that, further, the word is about the Cosmos: everything that was,…
Read moreSecularized Christian belief: worldview is a cultural universal
Lets become clear about the nature of my claims about worldviews. 1. The word carries multiple meanings. It has partly to do with the multiple meanings of the component words:…
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