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key	M759PE8C
title	Religion, Culture, and Governance : Perspectives through a Baha'i Lens
author	McKiel, Allen
item type	Book
publication year	2023
date	2023
ISBN	979-8-8611-3765-2
abstract note	"This book is a collection of expository essays promoting Baha’i perspectives particularly on cultural progression through the unity of science and religion. It argues that religion and science are as integral to each other as the human spirit is integral to the faculties of language and reasoning. Arguments are qualitative and evidence-based speculation from my personal experiences and understandings. The intent is to demonstrate perspectives and values that encourage solutions based in reason, evidence (including the evidence of testimony), critical review, and the freedom of the individual pursuit of truth. Extensive quotes from other authors' works are included to weave a fabric of voices relevant to that intent. My commentaries on those quotations are not understood by me as definitive, particularly those on scripture. They are simply my thoughts on those quotes as they relate to aspects of the general themes of this work. It is also an objective of this work to promote harmony among the followers of religion and to decrease the propensity toward religious fanaticism, obsessive nationalism, racism, sexism, and all other manner of human conflict-producing prejudices. I argue that the purpose of religion is the promotion of human wellbeing, learning, and cooperation through experience, awareness, and understanding of our human nature. I argue that it is also the purpose of scientific skepticism to promote human well-being using reason by weighing evidence through critical review and consultation in service to an ever-advancing civilization. Both religion and science provide experiences of reality, one infinite and eternal, the other practical and conceptual. I believe both are infinitely progressive and integral to each other."
number pages	288
publisher	Allen McKiel
place	[Place not stated]
language	English
manual tags	RELIGION; SCIENCE; ESSAYS
edition	Second American edition

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