Religious category: 31793 books
Dharma and Halacha
Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
In recent decades there has been a rising interest among scholars of Hinduism and Judaism in engaging in the comparative studies of these ancient traditions. Academic interests have also been inspired by the rise of interreligious dialogue by the respective religious leaders. Dharma and Halacha: Comparative...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers—Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in...
In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
Neurotheology Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
“Theoretical Religion is easy. Even a chimpanzee can get it. What the world needs is Practical Scientific Religion.” “Once upon a time, there was a frog that lived in a well. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. One day another frog that lived in the sea...
Becoming a Genuine Muslim
Kierkegaard and Muhammad Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Despite the apparent lack of any cultural and religious connection between Kierkegaard and Iqbal, their philosophical and religious concerns and their methods of dealing with these concerns show certain parallels.
This book provides a Kierkegaardian reading of Muhammad Iqbal’s idea of becoming...
by Lisa Kemmerer
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have changed: Human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms, medical laboratories, and elsewhere. In this wide-ranging and perceptive study, Lisa Kemmerer shows how spiritual writings and teachings in...
Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy
The Cross, the Questions, the Controverssy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ has become one of the most controversial films ever made, and it is already a blockbuster of cinematography. Its defenders passionately regard it as one of the most moving and influential pieces of religious art ever created. But its detractors argue with comparable...
Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism
Oracles of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Why did ancient philosophers consult oracles, write about them, and consider them to be an important part of philosophical thought and practice? This book explores the extensive links between oracles and philosophy in Late Antiquity, particularly focusing on the roles of oracles and other forms of...
by David Hay
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Dr Hay is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. A zoologist by profession, his research has been guided by the hypothesis that religious or spiritual awareness is biologically natural to the human species and has been selected for in the process of organic evolution because...
Bernard Lonergan’s Third Way of the Heart and Mind
Bridging Some Buddhist-Christian-Muslim-Secularist Misunderstandings with a Global Secularity Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Today the world is confronted with many religious wars and the migrations of millions of persons due to these conflicts. There is a need for informed dialog as to the roots of the conflicts and ways of addressing these in ways that speak to peoples’ minds and hearts. This is what this book attempts...
A Noble and Independent Course
The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
In 1828 Edward Mitchell was the first student of African descent to graduate from Dartmouth College, more than thirty-five years before any other Ivy League school admitted a black student. This book tells Mitchell’s life story with the help of a recently rediscovered trove of his college essays,...
On World Religions
Diversity, Not Dissension
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
‘… Swamiji attended the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893 as a true representative of his country and religion…Through his speeches at Chicago, and his subsequent work in America and England, [he] showed the universal relevance and significance of India’s ancient philosophy...
Food, Farming and Religion
Emerging Ethical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Although the religious and ethical consideration of food and eating is not a new phenomenon, the debate about food and eating today is distinctly different from most of what has preceded it in the history of Western culture. Yet the field of environmental ethics, especially religious approaches to...
by SAID
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
SAID’s 99 Psalms are poems of praise and lament, of questioning and wondering. In the tradition of the Hebrew psalmist, they find their voice in exile, in this case one that is both existential and geographical. His decision to include 99 in this collection recalls the ancient Muslim tradition that...
by Lowell Uda
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Myths, Stories, Parables for the Religious at Heart collects four e-books I have at Smashwords for free: Neither Good nor Bad: How Prometheus Stole Fire for Humankind, Parable of the Promise, Parable of the Uncoordinated Pigeon, and The Other Side: A Touch of Midas and Other Writings. I will be charging...