TY - JOUR
T1 - Harry Potter and the way of truth : reflections on where we are as standing towards religion
AU - Milani, Milad
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Discussion around religion is abundant. Talking directly to it as a phenomenon is unusual. Yet, this brief essay aims to speak directly to the question of our positionality to religion by way of drawing lessons from the Harry Potter story. It does this by thinking about the takeaway message on religion from this literary epic with the aid of Martin Heidegger, but also in conversation with John Carroll's piece on the same. There is something to be said for the practicality of religion as reflecting the practicality of being. Being as we are in the sense of becoming, religion might be argued to denote the act, rather than the ideal, of being human.
AB - Discussion around religion is abundant. Talking directly to it as a phenomenon is unusual. Yet, this brief essay aims to speak directly to the question of our positionality to religion by way of drawing lessons from the Harry Potter story. It does this by thinking about the takeaway message on religion from this literary epic with the aid of Martin Heidegger, but also in conversation with John Carroll's piece on the same. There is something to be said for the practicality of religion as reflecting the practicality of being. Being as we are in the sense of becoming, religion might be argued to denote the act, rather than the ideal, of being human.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:61943
U2 - 10.5840/asrr20219771
DO - 10.5840/asrr20219771
M3 - Article
SN - 1946-0538
VL - 11
SP - 235
EP - 247
JO - Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review
JF - Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review
IS - 2
ER -