Religious Faith and Meaning-Making

Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Herausgegeben:Lougheed, Kirk; Myers, Travis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together contributions on faith and meaning-making from across various disciplines into one place. Adherents of the Abrahamic faiths tend to hold that faith is an integral part of their lives. Moreover, it is often considered a life-changing event when a person comes to have religious faith. Alternatively, existential despair and dread are sometimes reported by the person who loses their religious faith. Not only is either type of event a significant moment in a person s life, but how a person s faith (or lack thereof) is lived out throughout the course of their life is also importantly connected to meaning.

This volume contains original essays on faith and meaning-making from the perspectives of philosophy, social science, and mental health, and as such constitutes a unique multidisciplinary resource. Religious Faith and Meaning-Making is essential reading for all scholars of religion and especially those focusing on the philosophy, psychology and sociology of religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin; Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89535023
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm
• ISBN-13: 9783032094780
• ISBN-10: 303209478X
• Artikelnr.: 75473791

Autorenporträt

Kirk Lougheed is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the Director for the Center for Research on Faith and Human Flourishing at LCC International University. He is also a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria. Travis Myers is Associate Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Theology at LCC International University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction: Tracing the Narrative.
Part I: Social Science Perspectives.
Chapter Two: Narrative Identity, Meaning, and Religious Community.
Chapter Three:  The Over
Medicalization of Mental Disorder, Suffering, & Meaning
Making.
Chapter Four: Once More, with Feeling: The Ubiquity of Religious Ritual in Meaning
making.
Chapter Five: The Shield of Faith? Understanding Religiosity and Suicidality.
Chapter Six: Traps of Meaning: Need for Closure and Finding Meaning.
Part II: Philosophical Perspectives .
Chapter Seven:   Would God be the Ultimate Attachment Figure? Some Hellish Implications.
Chapter Eight: Faith in Meaning, and Why it Fails.
Chapter Nine: The Shadow Side of Faith: Meaning Vs. Meaninglessness.
Chapter Ten:          Metaphor, Meaning, and Religious Discourse: A Linguistic and Theological Archeology of the 'Liquidation of the Human Spirit’.
Chapter Eleven: On Making a Difference.
Chapter Twelve: Religious Meaning Without Religion: Adapting Herman Dooyeweerd’s Pistic Aspect for a Non
Religious Context.