The expansion of prophetic experience : essays on historicity, contingency and plurality in religion /
Abdulkarim Soroush is known primarily for his epistemological/hermeneutical theory, the "Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge," and its application to Islamic political theory and religious pluralism. While his "Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam "applies that the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Persian. |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- -- PART I. 1. The Expansion of Prophetic Experience
- - 2. The Last Prophet 1
- - 3. The Last Prophet 2
- - 4. Essentials and Accidentals in Religion
- - 5. Maximalist Religion, Minimalist Religion
- - 6. Straight Paths-1: an Essay on Religious Pluralism
- - 7. Straight Paths-2: a Conversation on Religious Pluralism
- - PART II. 8. Types of Religiosity
- - 9. The Prophet Present
- - 10. Prophets Unhead
- - 11. Faith and Hope
- - 12. Spiritual Guardianship and Political Guardianship
- -- Appendixes.1. The Word of Mohammad. An Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush
- - 2. Ayatollah Sobhani's First Letter
- - 3. Bashar and Bashir, Soroush's First Response to Sobhani
- - 4. Ayatollah Sobhani's Second Letter
- - 5. The Parrot and the Bee. Soroush's Second Response to Sobhani.