William W. Mountcastle

Science Fantasy Voices and Visions of Cosmic Religion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new approach to comparative religion suggested by science fantasy interpretations of traditional religious teachings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: UPA
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9780761802976
• ISBN-10: 0761802975
• Artikelnr.: 42809803

Autorenporträt

William W. Mountcastle earned the B.A. from Whittier College, and the S.T.B. and Ph.D. from Boston University where he studied with Harold DeWolf, and he enjoyed additional studies at Harvard with Paul Tillich. He has taught Philosophy and Religious Studies at High Point College, Florida Southern College, Nebraska Wesleyan University where he was chair of The Department of Philosophy, and The University of West Florida where he is now Marvie L. Tipton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies. He is an ordained United Methodist Minister, a retired member of the Nebraska Annual Conference, and a member of the Pensacola Unitarian Universalist Church. His interests in comparative religion and new developments in theology find expression in his previously published Religion in Planetary Perspective: A Philosophy of Comparative Religion (1978) and Science Fantasy Voices and Visions of Cosmic Religion (University Press of America, 1996).