Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
Children and Spirituality
Searching for Meaning and Connectedness
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Brendan Hyde identifies four characteristics of children's spirituality: the felt sense, integrating awareness, weaving the threads of meaning, and spiritual questing. These characteristics can be observed in children if those who work with them know what to look for and are alert to the time, place...
Spiritual Trilogy
A Compilation
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This trilogy combines three books published previously: A Christian Guide to Spirituality, Life in Tension, and Called Along the Way. Together they chronicle a spiritual journey during the period from 2013 through 2017. The first two books focus on the question—who is God?—while the third book...
Manufacturing Religion
The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1997
In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent scholarship...
In the Name of God
The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Ethics and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Religion is one of the most powerful forces running through human history, and although often presented as a force for good, its impact is frequently violent and divisive. This provocative work brings together cutting-edge research from both evolutionary and cognitive psychology to help readers understand...
by Curtis J. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Religion has always been a focal element in the long and tortured history of American ideas about race. In The Burden of Black Religion, Curtis Evans traces ideas about African American religion from the antebellum period to the middle of the twentieth century. Central to the story, he argues, was...
Body: A Biblical Spirituality for the Whole Person
A Biblical Spirituality for the Whole Person
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The word spirituality is notoriously difficult to define. It is often used in a vague way to refer to the inner relationship between the self and God. The implication is that people only relate to God with their “inner” being (soul/spirit) and not with any other part of who they are. There is...
by William Stringfellow
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The author hits hard at the manipulation of religion for personal, corporate and national self-interests; and sets forth the possibility and content of a relevant and honest witness to Christ in both private and public affairs.
“This is a tract. It consists of four essays about the status...
by John Renard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Providing detailed descriptions of the beliefs, rituals, history, and organization of the world’s eight major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto, this fully revised and updated edition is an easy-to-use comparative guide...
by Ochnavi Atatoj
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This has to be not big material, and the idea is very young for me, but it seems so philosophically profound in my opinion that I just can’t wait more before its publication. And why should I invent religious fables now? For one thing I have invented a pair of religions under my traditional pseudonym...
by Stephen W Hiemstra
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Spirituality is lived belief. When we pray, worship, or reach out to our neighbors, we live out our beliefs. Our beliefs structure our spirituality like skin stretched over the bones of our bodies.
These beliefs start with faith in God the Father through Jesus Christ as revealed through the...
Religion and the New Immigrants
Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2000
New immigrants_those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965_have forever altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn. Although the religious congregations they form are often a nexus of their negotiation between the old and new, they have received little scholarly...
Drawn Away
Countering an Ungodly Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
At the beginning of His earthly ministry, Jesus recognized that in addition to the kingdom of God, another kingdom was operating here on the earth, the kingdom of Satan. The two would be in conflict with each other. While in heaven, as the angel Lucifer, Satan, tried to usurp Jesuss power and position....
Philosophy of Religion for OCR
The Complete Resource for Component 01 of the New AS and A Level Specification
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Philosophy of Religion for OCR is an ideal guide for students taking the Philosophy of Religion component of the OCR Religious Studies AS and A Level course. Drawing on insights gained from many years of teaching experience, Dennis Brown and Ann Greggs’ landmark book follows the OCR specification...
Religion in Development
Rewriting the Secular Script
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries. However, religion has largely remained unexplored in development studies. This timely new book aims to fill that gap. The authors expertly review how religion has been treated in...