Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- The soteriological character of post-axial religion -- Salvation/liberation as human transformation -- The cosmic optimism of post-axial religion -- Ontological, cosmological and design arguments -- Morality, religious experience and overall probability -- The naturalistic option -- Natural meaning and experience -- Ethical and aesthetic meaning and experience -- Religious meaning and experience -- Religion and reality -- Contemporary non-realist religion -- The rationality of religious belief -- The pluralistic hypothesis -- The personae of the real -- The impersonae of the real -- Soteriology and ethics -- The ethical criterion -- Myth, mystery and the unanswered questions -- The problem of conflicting truth-claims.

Discusses traditional and recent arguments for and against the existence of God, the religious ambiguity of the universe, the question of transcendence and the basis for rational religious belief.