Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺 | Religion, reason, time and space: introducing More Than Allegory @bernardokastrup | Uploaded February 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This video introduces and discusses my new book 'More Than Allegory: On religious myth, truth and belief.' It argues that religious mythology is an extraordinary psychosocial phenomenon that cannot be simply dismissed under the label of delusion. Its appeal throughout the ages arises from the fact that religious myths do convey truth, but truth that is neither literal nor merely allegorical. Religious myths embody, instead, a transcendent form of truth that cannot be captured in conceptual schemas or language narratives. The video also discusses the three key roles religious myths can, and must, play in contemporary society. Finally, it touches on the delicate challenge -- addressed head-on in the book -- of hinting at a worldview according to which time and space are constructs generated by the intellect, having no autonomous reality of their own. This is a challenge I have carefully avoided in my earlier five books, but whose time has now come.
The book 'More Than Allegory' can be purchased here:
amazon.com/More-Than-Allegory-Religious-Belief-ebook/dp/B01D27CBEU
amazon.co.uk/More-Than-Allegory-religious-belief/dp/1785352873
johnhuntpublishing.com/iff-books/our-books/more-than-allegory
Author info:
bernardokastrup.com
facebook.com/BernardoKastrup
twitter.com/BernardoKastrup
youtube.com/user/bernardokastrup
amazon.com/author/bernardokastrup
Copyright © 2016 by Bernardo Kastrup. All rights reserved.
Background music 'Brittle Rille' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), used under Creative Commons license.
This video introduces and discusses my new book 'More Than Allegory: On religious myth, truth and belief.' It argues that religious mythology is an extraordinary psychosocial phenomenon that cannot be simply dismissed under the label of delusion. Its appeal throughout the ages arises from the fact that religious myths do convey truth, but truth that is neither literal nor merely allegorical. Religious myths embody, instead, a transcendent form of truth that cannot be captured in conceptual schemas or language narratives. The video also discusses the three key roles religious myths can, and must, play in contemporary society. Finally, it touches on the delicate challenge -- addressed head-on in the book -- of hinting at a worldview according to which time and space are constructs generated by the intellect, having no autonomous reality of their own. This is a challenge I have carefully avoided in my earlier five books, but whose time has now come.
The book 'More Than Allegory' can be purchased here:
amazon.com/More-Than-Allegory-Religious-Belief-ebook/dp/B01D27CBEU
amazon.co.uk/More-Than-Allegory-religious-belief/dp/1785352873
johnhuntpublishing.com/iff-books/our-books/more-than-allegory
Author info:
bernardokastrup.com
facebook.com/BernardoKastrup
twitter.com/BernardoKastrup
youtube.com/user/bernardokastrup
amazon.com/author/bernardokastrup
Copyright © 2016 by Bernardo Kastrup. All rights reserved.
Background music 'Brittle Rille' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), used under Creative Commons license.
