scholarly journals ALTERNATIVE RELIGION IN PRETORIA PART II: EAST COMES SOUTH

Scriptura ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Clasquin
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Religion

Seekership as Social Institution in Alternative Religion

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-288
Author(s):  
Steven Sutcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
New Age ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Alternative Religion ◽  
The Rich

This article approaches a new biography of Frederick Bligh Bond by placing the subject’s life and career in the wider context of the formation of modern alternative religion. While acknowledging the rich particularities of Bond’s interests, attention is paid to the broader cultural context in which Bond lived and worked. This includes the modern cult and mythos of Glastonbury in both elite and popular cultural aspects as well as a wider social institution of seekership which shapes individual biographies. The article argues that through his seekership Bond was paradoxically more of a ‘type’ than his biographer allows and that his contributions to Glastonbury and to the New Age milieu should be interpreted in this light. The Rediscovery of Glastonbury: Frederick Bligh Bond Architect of the New Age, by Tim Hopkinson-Ball. The History Press (Sutton Publishing), 2007. 236pp., £20.00. ISBN-13: 9780750945646.

Alternative religion and outcome of alcohol dependence in Brazil

Addiction ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 90 (6) ◽  
pp. 847-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio T. Miranda ◽  
Eliseu Labigalini ◽  
Cristiane Tacla
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Alternative Religion

Darwinism as Religion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ruse
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Seminal Fluid ◽  
Julian Huxley ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Religion ◽  
Illicit Use ◽  
Secular Religion ◽  
Evolutionary Progression ◽  
The Way

This chapter prepares the way for the purpose of the book, to use war as a case study for the claim that in major respects, thinking based on Darwin’s ideas—“Darwinism”—has from the first functioned as a form of secular religion, a variety of humanism. Although natural selection makes it very implausible to claim that there is an inevitable evolutionary progression up to humankind, this has not stopped Darwinians, from Darwin himself through to people like Edward O. Wilson today, seeing such progress and using this belief as a peg on which to hang social and moral views, in major respects alternatives to the social and moral views of Christianity. Often, as in the case of Julian Huxley, the intent to produce an alternative religion is made explicit. Rival views on the illicit use of seminal fluid are used as an illustration. For Christians, through self-abuse, it leads to degeneration. For Darwinians, through the failures of the sexually profligate, it leads to advance.

11. Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-128
Author(s):  
Timothy Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Science Literature ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
Philosophical Methods ◽  
Alternative Religion

Philosophy is a science, interconnected with others and as autonomous as others. The Conclusion looks at the future of philosophy, and whether it will withstand the pressures on it to be something else—pop science, literature, or alternative religion. Humans are naturally curious—we wonder about things and ask questions, whether we are philosophers or not. This curiosity may help philosophy to survive, through an iterative human-led journey of improvement like the trajectory it has taken already. Philosophical methods can be improved, just as other scientific methods can be improved; the only remaining question is how.

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