Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books
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Religious Diversity Today: Experiencing Religion in the Contemporary World [3 volumes]
Experiencing Religion in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Why is human suffering and the existence of evil part of the human experience? How does religious doctrine establish one's identity? In what ways does religion interact with and shape the social order? This thought-provoking work ponders these questions and explores the concept of religion from various...
by Sana Loue
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This singular reference explores religion and spirituality as a vital, though often misconstrued, lens for building better understanding of and empathy with clients. A diverse palette of faiths and traditions is compared and contrasted (occasionally with secularism), focusing on areas of belief that...
African Personality and Spirituality
The Role of Abosom and Human Essence
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
There is a divine pronouncement among the Akan that all human beings are children of God (Nana Nyame), none a child of the earth (mother); meaning that human beings are spiritual in origin, descending directly from God via the Abosom (gods and goddesses). Every person then has a deity as father (Ᾱgya-bosom),...
by Sally Promey
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here ask, How have people used and valued sensory data? How have they...
Feminism and Religion: How Faiths View Women and Their Rights
How Faiths View Women and Their Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
At a conference in 2013, Gloria Steinem noted that religion is the "biggest problem" facing feminism today. In this insightful volume, a team of researchers, psychologists, and religious leaders led by editors Michele A. Paludi and J. Harold Ellens supply their expertise and informed opinions...
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-five Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field's development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five...
Waiting for Antichrist
Charisma and Apocalypse in a Pentecostal Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
How can people believe that the supernatural end of the world lies just around the corner when, so far, every such prediction has been proved wrong? Some scholars argue that millenarians are psychologically disturbed; others maintain that their dreams of paradise on earth reflect a nascent political...
by Charles W. Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
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There are so many different religious systems in the world, each claiming not only to be right but to be divine, that a rational mind, unwarped by sect or creed, is likely to become bewildered and disgusted in its efforts to reach and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
What are the roles, functions, and identities of pastoral counselors today? What paradigms shape their understanding of the needs of others? How can pastoral counselors serve the needs of diverse individuals in both religious and secular environments? This foundational text reflects the continued...
Recognition and Religion
Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This book focuses on recognition and its relation to religion and theology, in both systematic and historical dimensions. While existing research literature on recognition and contemporary recognition theory has been gradually growing since the early 1990s, certain gaps remain in the field covered...
Who Among Three: Recreating the Freeman
Freedom, #3
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
What is Freedom? The chants of the ageless hymn sung to the rhyme of clattering chains. The steps of the iron-clad feet on the road march to the blacksmith shop. The beats of the apprehensive heart on the verge of emission or release. Freedom is the path not the destination.
All men were created...
Mein goldener Sprung in der Schüssel
Wie ich als Pastor mit meinen Zwangsstörungen und der Alkoholabhängigkeit lebe
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Die ergreifende Biografie eines Pastors, der mit psychischen Erkrankungen zu kämpfen hat! Schon als Kind hat Volker Halfmann Zwangsgedanken, Depressionen. Eigentlich menschenscheu, ergreift er den Beruf des Pastors und übt ihn auch einige Jahre erfolgreich aus. Kaum einer ahnt, dass der wortgewandte...
by Robert K. Wen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Everyone wonders, at least at times, about such questions as the purpose and future of his or her own life. Some would even trouble themselves with similar questions about the universe. In ReligionOne Mans Overview, a retired professor with a background in both Eastern and Western cultures, shares...
by Anonyme
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Il y a mille moyens de produire le sommeil nerveux ou hypnotisme. La fixité du regard, une légère pression sur les yeux et sur la tête, l’attouchement de certains points du corps dits points hystériques, la simple suggestion mentale ou la volonté exprimée...