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by Mateus Soares de Azevado
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In this groundbreaking work, award-winning Brazilian journalist Azevedo presents a frank and objective account of how the label of “fundamentalism” can be applied to religious and secular ‘faiths’ alike. In the 21st century, passionate and emotional attachment to a single point of view, and the...
Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation
Religious Perspectives on Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation is perennially controversial: Should it rightly be termed suicide? Does religion sanction it? Should it be celebrated or anathematized? At least some idealization of such self-chosen deaths is found in every religious tradition...
Thou Art That
Transforming Religious Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Woven from Joseph Campbell’s previously unpublished work, this volume explores Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors — and their misinterpretations — with the famed mythologist’s characteristic conversational warmth and accessible scholarship.
Campbell’s insights highlight centuries...
Acts of Faith
Explaining the Human Side of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion...
Selling Yoga
From Counterculture to Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In...
Ritual and Its Consequences
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in...
After Pluralism
Reimagining Religious Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem that...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Interreligious Friendships after Nostra Aetate explores the ways in which personal relationships are essential for theology. Catholic theologians tell the personal stories of their interreligious friendships and explore the significance of their friendships for their own life and work.
Revelatory Events
Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Unseen presences. Apparitions. Hearing voices. Although some people would find such experiences to be distressing and seek clinical help, others perceive them as transformative. Occasionally, these unusual phenomena give rise to new spiritual paths or religious movements. Revelatory Events provides...
Judaism and World Religions
Encountering Christianity, Islam, and Eastern Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Provides the first extensive collection of traditional and academic Jewish approaches to the religions of the world, focusing on those Jewish thinkers that actually encounter the other world religions -that is, it moves beyond the theory of inclusive/exclusive/pluralistic categories and looks at Judaism's interactions with other faiths.
When One Religion Isn't Enough
The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
An exploration into the lives of people who embrace two or more religious traditions, and what this growing community tells us about change in our society
Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal
In the United States, we often assume religious and spiritual identity are pure, static,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This volume is the first English-language anthology to engage with the fascinating phenomena of recent surges in New Age and alternative spiritualties in Israel. Contributors investigate how these New Age religions and other spiritualties—produced in Western countries within predominantly Protestant...
by Paul D. Numrich, Elfriede Wedam
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Religion and Community in the New Urban America examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregations. The authors ask how the new metropolis affects local religious communities and what role those communities play in creating the new metropolis. Through an in-depth study of...
The Search for Meaning
Americans Talk About What They Believe and Why
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
“This thought-provoking oral history illuminates the vibrant panorama of values and beliefs that is shaping America.”—Coretta Scott King
What do Americans, as a people, believe in? What are the experiences that have transformed their lives? How does faith—in God, in human goodness,...