Overview
- Presents a grand account of worldviews across different cultures and religions
- Investigates the variant responses of worldviews to existential questions
- Explores how various worldviews understand universal beliefs
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This book investigates the concept of worldview, in its numerous aspects, and how worldviews impact, shape, and influence individuals, communities, societies, and cultures. It explores various worldviews—religious, spiritual, and secular—using a comprehensive approach to highlight their breadth, depth, and scope. John Valk argues that everyone has a worldview, and that worldview is often shaped and influenced by individual circumstances and situations. While worldviews have similar structures to one another, they vary in content, including differences in metanarratives, teachings, ethics, and more. In the course of explaining how worldviews respond to life’s ultimate and existential challenges, the book poses ontological questions to highlight various (world)views on the nature of being and the human, and epistemological questions pertaining to sources of knowledge and certainty. Inviting readers to reflect on their own worldviews as they explore the worldviews of others, Valk alsoreveals how certain universal worldview beliefs are interpreted in particular contexts.
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Reviews
“The book left me with a greater appreciation for worldview analysis as a diagnostic tool to better understand why I think and act as I do and why others come to different conclusions. … I will also be more careful in how I use the word publicly – or go back to Valk’s book as a reference.” (John Valk, christiancourier.ca, November 17, 2023)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Valk is Professor of Worldview Studies at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He is coauthor (with Halis Albayrak & Mualla Selçuk) of An Islamic Worldview from Turkey: Religion in a Modern, Secular and Democratic State (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Worldviews
Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Approach to Knowing Self and Others
Authors: John Valk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82491-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82490-7Published: 02 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82493-8Published: 03 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82491-4Published: 01 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 307
Topics: Comparative Religion, Philosophy, general, Cultural Studies