Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books
Televised Redemption
Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
How Black Christians, Muslims, and Jews have used media to prove their equality, not only in the eyes of God but in society.
The institutional structures of white supremacy—slavery, Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, and mass incarceration—require a commonsense belief that black people lack the moral...
by Jay Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
How will you justify your actions on Judgement Day?
Maybe you can just brazen things out; after all it worked down here, most of the time.
You must have noticed how all around you greed, anger, envy and worse sins are being committed, to say nothing of the crimes ending up on the news.
If...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
For more than 60 years, Scientology has claimed alternative religious status with a significant number of followers, despite its portrayals in popular culture domains as being bizarre. What are the reasons for the vital connections between Scientology and popular culture that help to maintain or challenge...
Puramore - The Lute of Pythagoras
The Lute of Pythagoras
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
George Smythe spills his blood for The Cause before he has a conscious thought as to either its true nature or his role as its leader in the distant future. His mortal and immortal enemy nearly slays him whilst he's on holiday in Mexico touring pre-Columbian archaeological sites. The Nagual shaman...
Beloved Jesus Married to Mary
A Love Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The author has been reading and analyzing who Jesus was and is and forever from holy scriptures, other mystics, channelings, and other worldwide web of information. Ms. Juanita de Guzman Gutierrez studied and graduated with bachelor and masters degrees in education. And she pondered her spiritual...
Confession
The Healing of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Confession: The Healing of the Soul is not just about what is termed sacramental confession. Its frame of reference is much wider and includes discussion of those celebrated writers who wrote confessions – Augustine, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Foucault, Freud, Jung, John of the Cross and Wittgenstein....
Bewilderments
Reflections on the Book of Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible.
The book of Numbers is the narrative of a great failure. What should have been for the Israelites a brief journey from Mount Sinai to the Holy Land becomes a forty-year death march. Both...
Nietzsche and Zen
Self Overcoming Without a Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, André van der Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 150-250), Linji (d. 860), Dogen (1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990). In doing so, he reveals Nietzsche's thought as a...
Beyond Consolation
How we became too "clever" for God and our own good
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
In the late spring of 2008 the acclaimed Irish writer Nuala O' Faolain went on a national Irish radio programme to tell the Irish people that she was dying of cancer. She was frightened of death and of the short time left to her.Â
Here was a spokesperson for a generation which now conjured...
Halfway Up The Mountain
The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightment
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Caplan (TO TOUCH IS TO LIVE) asserts that "the reality of the present condition of contemporary spirituality in the West is one of grave distortion, confusion, fraud, and a fundamental lack of education." She claims that, as positive as the tremendous rise in spirituality is, there is not any context...
Sayyid Qutb
The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden. But Qutb has too often been treated maliciously or reductively-"the Philosopher of Islamic Terror," as Paul Berman famously put it in the New York Times Magazine....
Singled Out For God's Assignment
A Widow's Valley of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
If the widows I counseled had read Leona’s book soon after the death of their husbands, many may not have needed my services. I read Leona’s manuscript from cover to cover. As a practicing psychiatrist for many years, I would have eagerly recommended her book to my patients had it been available....
Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
A practical, down-to-earth guide to Vasubandhu's classic work "Thirty Verses of Consciousness Only" that can transform modern life and change how you see the world.
In this down-to-earth book, Ben Connelly sure-handedly guides us through the intricacies of Yogacara and the richness of the “Thirty...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and European traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depends...