role of philology in. See also anti-Semitism
racial unconscious
random, attraction of
rationalism
reality, nature of; Cartesian objectivity and; explanatory model of; Freudian model of; infinite potential realities and; mythic past and; parascientific literature on; science and; self-interest and; strangeness of; threshold event insights into; unknowability and; unreality and. See also consciousness
reason
recapitulation theory
reciprocity, altruistic
reductionism
relativity theory
religion; absent God trope and; altruism and; as ancient and global; anthropology and; communal nature of; conflict and; definitions of; Freud on; as illusion; James on; nature of mind and; origins and; polemics against; rejection of metaphysics and; resurrection and; science and, ix; science of; sense of emptiness and; subjectivity of faith and; universal experience of. See also Christianity; God; Judaism; soul; theology
repression, Freud and; memory and; sexuality and
reproduction. See also kinship altruism
resurrection
Rolland, Romain
Romans
Romanticism
Rorty, Richard, The Future of Religion
Russell, Bertrand
Russia
Ryle, Gilbert
Samoans
scholarship standards
science; common sense and; creation hypotheses and; culture and; Descartes and; false expectations and; First Cause and; Freudian metapsychology and; human subjectivity and; materiality vs. nonmateriality and; measurement and; mind and; modern culture and; nature of reality and; objective demonstration and; parascience contrasted with; popularization of; positivism and
religion and, ix; social sciences and; theory and hypothesis and
science of religion
Searle, John
sectarianism
secularism
self; awareness of (see self-awareness); debunking conceptions of; Freudian model of; individual experience and; interior drama and; richly individual history of; romantic myth of
self-alienation
self-awareness; definition of; introspection and
self-deception
self-doubt
self-interest; genetics and; meme and; morality as counter to; “soft-core” altruism as
selfishness. See self-interest
selflessness. See altruism
senses
sexuality; civilization’s restrictions on; Freudian self and
shamanism
shame
single-cell reproduction
skepticism
Skinner, B. F.
Smith, Adam
social approval
social Darwinism
social pathologies
social sciences
social theory
sociobiology
sociology
“soft-core” altruism
solitude
souclass="underline" ; altruistic acts and; beauty and strangeness of; debunking of; Descartes and; as experience; nature of; nonreligious characterization of
spacelessness
speculation
Spencer, Herbert; on altruism; Data of Ethics; on evolution and morality; on relativity theory
Spengler, Oswald; beliefs of; The Decline of the West
spirituality
spontaneous fission
starvation
stimuli, protection/reception of
stranger altruism
structuralism
subjectivity; brain injury and; complexity of; of faith; James on; parascientific exclusion of
sublimation
suffering, identification with
Sufi poets
Sumerian flood story
survival
Tasaday
Tasmanians
termite behavior
theodicies
theology; ancient intuition of; parascientific world view and. See also religion
Theory of Population (Malthus)
thinking. See mind
threshold events; Cartesian thought and
timelessness, Totem and Taboo (Freud)
totems
Townsend, Peter
transformative concept
tribal warfare
triumphalism
trust in mind
truth; objective demonstration of
Tumulty, Joseph
uncertainty principle
unconscious; Freudian redefinition of; interior drama and
universal human character
universal love
universal myth
universal religious experience
universe: accelerated expansion of; as accident; beginning of; fractional visibility of; human place in; multiverse possibility and; origins of; parascientific genre and
unknowability
Unmoved Mover
unreality
values
Varieties of Religious Experience (James)
Vattimo, Gianni, The Future of Religion, −
Versailles Treaty (1919)
victimization narratives
Vienna: anti-Semitism in; Freudian self-analogy with
violence; Freudian primordial crime and; tribal. See also warfare
warfare
Wesley, John
Wilson, E.O.; on altruism; on coextension of physical and social sciences; conception of mind of; Consilience; On Human Nature
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
World War I
Wyclif, John
Yanomamo