Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Introduction: An Invitation to Religious Studies -- ONE-The Voyage -- 1. The Religious Drive -- 2. What Religion is Not -- 3. Way of Life -- 4. Earthy Ecstasy -- 5. Conversion to the Sacred -- TWO-Autobiography and Story -- 1. Religion as Autobiography -- 2. Cultural Stories and Personal Stories -- 3. Standpoint to Standpoint -- 4.…
Read moreCover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Introduction: An Invitation to Religious Studies -- ONE-The Voyage -- 1. The Religious Drive -- 2. What Religion is Not -- 3. Way of Life -- 4. Earthy Ecstasy -- 5. Conversion to the Sacred -- TWO-Autobiography and Story -- 1. Religion as Autobiography -- 2. Cultural Stories and Personal Stories -- 3. Standpoint to Standpoint -- 4. "Story," Elaborated -- 5. What Cannot Be Said -- 6. The Aesthetic, The Moral, The Religious -- 7. Among the Many Rises and Declines of Reason -- THREE-Cultures -- 1. Paradoxes of the Finite -- 2. Sense of Reality -- 3. From Culture to Cult -- FOUR-Societies and Institutions -- 1. Institutions are Man's Natural Habitat -- 2. Freedom and Coercion -- 3. Are Institutions Obsolete? -- 4. The New Heteronomy -- 5. Secular Religion -- 6. The Communal Imagination -- 7. The Realities of Economics -- 8. Political Revolution -- FIVE-Organizations -- 1. Organized Anything -- 2. Liturgy -- 3. Church, Denomination, Sect -- 4. Holy Texts -- 5. Theologies -- 6. A Map of Christian Theologies in the United States -- 7. Theology as Suitor -- SIX-Nature and History -- SEVEN-How Then Shall We Act? -- 1. Elaborations on "Story" -- 2. A Story of My Own -- Epilogue: New Horizons -- Notes -- Index of Names.
