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What (who) is unreason - definition

BOOK BY CHRISTOPHER EVANS
Cults of Unreason (book); Cults of unreason
  • 1975 ed. Book cover, [[Delacorte Press]]

Unreason      
·noun Want of reason; unreasonableness; absurdity.
II. Unreason ·vt To undo, disprove, or refute by reasoning.
unreason      
¦ noun inability to think rationally.
Songs of Unreason         
2011 POETRY COLLECTION
Draft:Songs of Unreason
Songs of Unreason is a collection of poems by American writer Jim Harrison published in 2011 by Copper Canyon Press. It was Harrison's thirteenth and penultimate collection. Sixty-seven poems make up the collection, including "Suite of Unreason", a poem of over 350 lines, and a sequence of seven poems relating to rivers (River I - VII). Many of the poems are concerned with the transcendent natural world.

Wikipedia

Cults of Unreason

Cults of Unreason is a non-fiction book on atypical belief systems, written by Christopher Riche Evans, who was a noted computer scientist and an experimental psychologist. It was first published in the UK in 1973 by Harrap and in the United States in 1974 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in paperback in 1975, by Delacorte Press, and in German, by Rowohlt, in 1976.

Evans discusses Scientology and Dianetics, UFO religions, believers in Atlantis, biofeedback, Yoga, Eastern religions, and black boxes. He points out that these systems and groups incorporate technological advances within a theological framework, and that part of their appeal is due to the failure of modern people to find strength, comfort, and community in traditional religion and in science.

In 2001 new religious movement specialist George Chryssides criticized the book's title by pointing out that most groups referred to as cults do have well-defined beliefs.

Examples of use of unreason
1. At that point judicious scientists would have stopped to ponder the stark unreason of their statement.
2. "Sadly, for many, the response is to retreat from complexity and difficulty by embracing the darkness of fundamentalist unreason.
3. While some brave souls within the party have tried to provoke a meaningful debate about its direction, they have been swamped by voices of unreason.
4. Enlightenment values are in peril not because these mad beliefs are really growing but because too many rational people seek to appease and understand unreason.
5. Of course we must detect, prevent and expunge it as best we can – but it is a monstrous force of unreason beyond arguing with.