RT Article
T1 Naturalism and the Aesthetic Character of Religion: The Eclipse of the Absolute in the Experience of the Sacred
JF Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
VO 8
IS 2
SP 182
OP 205
A1 Yalcin, Martin O.
LA English
PB Equinox Publ.
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1837086907
AB I offer an aesthetic religious metaphysics from the perspective of naturalism as the most effective antidote to abjection within religion. I understand abjection within religious experience as the simultaneous desire to demonize nature and to idolize one’s conception of the sacred. My chief argument is that abjection occurs when the sacred is understood as being absolute. I trace the absolute character of the sacred to a metaphysics that insists on the utter incommensurability of the sacred with respect to nature. In contrast I defend a metaphysics that points to the radical inde?niteness and radical fecundity of nature as the reason why the sacred must be one of innumerable orders of nature. Once the sacred is leveled to the plane of nature, demonization and idolization are virtually foreclosed within religion because the sacred is now related and relative to other orders of nature.
K1 Justus Buchler
K1 Robert Corrington
K1 Natural Theology
K1 Philosophy of nature
K1 religion and aesthetics
K1 religious naturalism
DO 10.1558/jsrnc.v8i2.182