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Religion in the Making: Lowell Lectures, 1926 2nd Edition

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press; 2nd edition (1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0823216462
  • ISBN-13: 978-0823216468
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsBare, beautiful spirituality
By Alvie Hackle on October 25, 2002
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In his other books, and especially in Process and Reality, Whitehead's prose can be so dense as to discourage all but the most determined readers. But Religion in the Making, while occasionally technical, is Whitehead at his simplest and most elegant. Reading this book, written just three years before P&R, will show people who have been exposed to "process theology" that Whitehead's own beliefs about God were really much more simple and poetic. The great Cambridge-Harvard philosopher's spirituality boils down to a single sentence in the midst of Religion in the Making: "Expression is the one fundamental sacrament."
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5.0 out of 5 starsElegant, profound and accessible
By Peter Uys HALL OF FAME on September 9, 2007
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This volume consists of four lectures delivered in King's Chapel, Boston in 1926. Here Whitehead applies to religion the same train of thought that he applies to science in Science and the Modern World. The purpose of the lectures is to provide a concise analysis of the various factors in human nature that lead to religion, to display the inevitable transformation of religion with the transformation of knowledge, and to focus on those permanent elements by which a stable order is maintained in the universe and without which there could be no changing world.

Lecture: Religion in History, looks at definitions of religion, the emergence of religion, ritual and emotion, belief, rationalism, the ascent of man and the ultimate contrast between Christianity and Buddhism. Most important observation for me: One's character is developed according to one's faith. This is the primary religious truth from which no one can escape. Also: "Religion is by no means necessarily good. It may be very evil." The final sentence is prophetic, referring to Christianity and Buddhism: "They have lost their ancient hold upon the world.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsPrincipia Theologica & Logica
By John Philoponus on February 27, 2005
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"Religions commit suicide when they find their inspirations in their dogmas. The inspiration of religion lies in the history of religion:'Primary expression of religious life'"

Religion, A Liberal Essay:

People often complain that philosophers present too complex a picture of God, but Whitehead cautions that it may be the very simplicity of modernist notions of God that thwarts the religious response. "As a rebound from dogmatic intolerance, the simplicity of religious truth has been a favorite axiom of liberalizing theologians," he writes in Religion in the Making. "It is difficult to understand upon what evidence this notion is based . . . To reduce religion to a few simple notions seems an arbitrary solution to the problem before us. It may be common sense; but is it true?". Whitehead spoke these words in 1926 in King's Chapel, the venerable Unitarian church in Boston. Early twentieth-century Unitarians were undoubtedly vulnerable to the charge of proceeding by a process of theological subtraction, boiling their religion down into what one Unitarian Universalist has called "wholesome abstraction." Philocrites

Religion in the Making:

"The train of thought which was applied to science in my Lowell lectures of the previous year, since published under the title, Science and the Modern World, is here applied to religion. The two books are independent, but it is inevitable that to some extent they elucidate each other by showing the same way of thought in different applications.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsWhitehead's Take on 'Religion' Still Worth a Read
By Ansen Plopbundle on July 8, 2013
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Whitehead believes the fundamental purpose of religion is ‘justification’ (5). A person develops the personality and character according to the doctrines they believe: “Religion is a force of belief cleansing the inward parts” (5). Religion is very involved in this inner aspect of humanity. It is “the art and the theory of the internal life of man . . .” (6).

In and of itself, there are four factors to religion: Ritual, emotion, belief and rationalization. All of these are put together differently in different religions and in different times, but there is also something of historical note to these four factors, as well. These four factors have a more general thesis in common -- that “The dogmas of religion are the attempts to formulate in precise terms the truths disclosed in the religious experience of mankind” (47). Whitehead believes these four to have arisen in humanity respectively. In its earliest seeds, religion is mere ritual, possibly with a tinge of emotion (9). At some point in the evolution of that religion emotion begins to play a larger part and eventually “takes the lead” (9). Emotion “waits upon the ritual” and provides a reason to continue the ritual. Emotion and ritual reinforce each other. Yet, emotion also can help to dispel ritual (10). Of this period, Whitehead writes, “It was a tremendous discovery – how to excite emotions for their own sake, apart from some imperious biological necessity” (10-11). To account for the combination of ritual and emotion, belief arises. Belief has an explanatory focus of this combination of ritual and emotion (9). Attendant with this belief is rationalization, which acts as a method of explaining the use of belief on the religious paradigm. The myth oftentimes is demanded by the arisen rationalization.Read more ›
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