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| List of illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Scope and structure | |
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| Pedagogical features and resources for further exploration | |
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| Religion and the philosophy of religion | |
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| Religion and the world religions | |
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| Philosophy and the philosophy of religion | |
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| Philosophy of religion timeline | |
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| Religious beliefs and practices | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Religious diversity and pluralism | |
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| The diversity of religions | |
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| Religious inclusivism and exclusivism | |
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| Religious pluralism | |
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| Religious relativism | |
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| Evaluating religious systems | |
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| Religious tolerance | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Conceptions of ultimate reality | |
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| Ultimate Reality: the Absolute and the Void | |
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| Ultimate Reality: a personal God | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Cosmological arguments for God's existence | |
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| The argument from contingency | |
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| The sufficient reason argument | |
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| The Kalam argument | |
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| A cosmological argument for atheism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Teleological arguments for God's existence | |
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| Paley's design argument | |
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| A fine-tuning argument | |
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| An intelligent design argument | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Ontological arguments for God's existence | |
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| Anselm's ontological argument | |
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| Plantinga's modal ontological argument | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Problems of evil | |
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| Sketching the terrain | |
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| Theoretical problems of evil | |
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| The existential problem of evil | |
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| Three theodicies | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Science, faith, and reason | |
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| Religion and science | |
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| Religious belief and justification | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Religious experience | |
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| The nature and diversity of religious experience | |
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| Religious experience and justification | |
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| Challenges to religious experience as justification for religious beliefs | |
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| Scientific explanations of religious experience | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The self, death and the afterlife | |
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| Conceptions of the self | |
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| Reincarnation and karma | |
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| Arguments for immortality | |
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| Arguments against immortality | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions for review/discussion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |