Religious category: 31793 books
Philosophies of Happiness
A Comparative Introduction to the Flourishing Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
What does it mean to be truly happy? In Philosophies of Happiness, Diana Lobel provides a rich spectrum of arguments for a theory of happiness as flourishing or well-being, offering a global, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective on how to create a vital, fulfilling, and significant life....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. The engagement and tensions between modernism and tradition, and institutionalized religion and spirituality are inherent issues for many composers who have...
Crisis of Transcendence
A Theology of Digital Art and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
From the Internet to the iPhone, digital technology is no mere cultural artifact. It affects how we experience and understand our world and ourselves at the deepest levels-it is a fundamental condition of living. The digitization of modern life constitutes an essential field of religious concern because...
Rebirth and the Stream of Life
A Philosophical Study of Reincarnation, Karma and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Rebirth and the Stream of Life explores the diversity as well as the ethical and religious significance of rebirth beliefs, focusing especially on Hindu and Buddhist traditions but also discussing indigenous religions and ancient Greek thought. Utilizing resources from religious studies, anthropology...
by Christopher Lewis, Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Around the globe religion is under attack. Humanists, secularists and atheists depict believers as deluded and dangerous. The aim of this book is to challenge this perception. Sensible Religion defends the validity and emphasises the excitement of the religious quest across the faiths. It demonstrates...
To Be an Agnostic
An Agnostic Approach to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
To Be an Agnostic Seeking knowledge, truth and wisdom through the philosophy of agnosticism
Chicago Todays America seems to split in two opposing parties: those who feel religion is under attack, and those who feel religion is unjustly pushing itself into secular life. While many books exist...
Cherish the Exception
Navigating the Confluence of Faith and Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
On a warm September day in 1957, author John Allen Resko walked through the gates of Saint Charles into a world he was ill prepared to confront. He had no clear plan for the future and didnt possess the financial means to follow another path. After concluding that the religious life and his temperament...
Theos Bernard, the White Lama
Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 1937, Theos Casimir Bernard (1908–1947), the self-proclaimed "White Lama," became the third American in history to reach Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. During his stay, he amassed the largest collection of Tibetan texts, art, and artifacts in the Western hemisphere at that time....
Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century
Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The sixteen chapters of Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century are papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on American and European Values / International Conference on Josiah Royce, held at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Opole, Poland in June 2008. The presentation of diverse perspectives,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This unique Handbook provides a sophisticated, scholarly overview of the most advanced thought regarding the idea of life after death. Its comprehensive coverage encompasses historical, religious, philosophical and scientific thinking.
Starting with an overview of ancient thought on the topic, The...
Religious Wave
A Radical Islamist’S Journey to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Radical Islam is usually only seen through the eyes of outsiders. Whether in the newspaper, on television, or in social media, the face of radical Islam is portrayed as a zealous insurgent destined to spread terror and suffering. But for one man seeking the will of God, his path was simply a dream...
Coptic Monasteries
Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich store of monasteries and monastic art. Coptic Monasteries takes the reader on a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient religious centers, documenting in exhaustive detail the richness and the glory of the Coptic heritage....
Diaspora of the Gods
Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with religious values similar to those of their professional counterparts in America and Europe. Just as modern professionals continue to build new churches, synagogues, and now mosques, Hindus are erecting temples to their gods wherever their work and...
Upholding Mystery
An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 1996
Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"--that no major modern poet writes religious poetry. Indeed, the very idea that...