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Introducing Philosophy of Religion: Textbook

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Table of Contents

Part One: Religion and the Philosophy of Religion
  1. Religion and the World Religions
  2. Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion
  3. Philosophy of Religion Timeline
  4. Religious Beliefs and Practices
  5. Summary
Part Two: Religious Diversity and Pluralism
  1. The Diversity of Religions
  2. Religious Inclusivism and Exclusivism
  3. Religious Pluralism
  4. Religious Relativism
  5. Evaluating Religious Systems
  6. Religious Tolerance
  7. Summary
Part Three: Conceptions of Ultimate Reality
  1. Ultimate Reality: The Absolute and the Void
  2. Ultimate Reality: A Personal God
  3. Summary
Part Four: Arguments for God's Existence: Cosmological
  1. The Argument from Contingency
  2. The Sufficient Reason Argument
  3. The Kalam Argument
  4. A Cosmological Argument for Atheism
  5. Summary
Part Five: Arguments for God's Existence: Teleological
  1. Paley's Design Argument
  2. A Fine-Tuning Argument
  3. An Intelligent Design Argument
  4. Summary
Part Six: Arguments for God's Existence: Ontological
  1. Anselm's Ontological Argument
  2. Platinga's Modal Ontological Argument
  3. Summary
Part Seven: Problems of Evil
  1. Sketching the Terrain
  2. Theoretical Problems of Evil
  3. The Existential Problem of Evil
  4. Three Theodicies
  5. Summary
Part Eight: Science, Faith and Reason
  1. Religion and Science
  2. Religious Belief and Justification
  3. Summary
Part Nine: Religious Experience
  1. The Nature and Diversity of Religious Experience
  2. Religious Experience and Justification
  3. Scientific Explanations of Religious Experience
  4. Summary
Part Ten: The Self, Death and the Afterlife
  1. Conceptions of the Self
  2. Reincarnation and Karma
  3. Arguments for Immortality
  4. Arguments against Immortality