Religious category: 31793 books
by William James
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Harvard philosopher William James’s compiled lectures on religion, considered to be among the most brilliant studies of mankind’s relation to the divine
William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience brings together twenty lectures on the nature of religion, delivered at the University...
Rock Gets Religion
The Battle for the Soul of the Devil's Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Rock music, once largely the domain of hedonism and debauchery of every kind, is now populated by a surprising case of upstanding and in many cases devout citizens who create all different kinds of music and oftentimes are animated by religious ideas that would have been completely alien to rock stars...
The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism
And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In contemporary political philosophy, there is much debate over how to maintain a public order in pluralistic democracies in which citizens hold radically different religious views. The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism deals with this theoretically and practically difficult issue by examining...
In Gratitude
The Story of a Gift-Filled Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
"A valuable window into a recent past – courageous, poignant, enriching and honest."
Margaret MacCurtain
Born into a well-to-do family living in Simmonscourt Castle, Dublin in 1934, Catherine McCann lived a rarefied life, playing tennis and attending parties as part of Dublin's upper...
by Katrina-Jane Bart
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Is it possible to let go of illusions instilled in you for several years? Is it possible to break free from fears and religious beliefs? Is it possible that the solid world around us is just a mirage? Can it be possible to transit into a world filled with transcendence, clairvoyants and spiritual...
Raccoon John Smith
Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous Preacher
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
The Disciples of Christ, one of the first Christian faiths to have originated in America, was established in 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky, by the union of two groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone. The modern churches resulting from the union are known collectively to religious scholars...
Philosophers without Gods
Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
Atheists are frequently demonized as arrogant intellectuals, antagonistic to religion, devoid of moral sentiments, advocates of an "anything goes" lifestyle. Now, in this revealing volume, nineteen leading philosophers open a window on the inner life of atheism, shattering these common stereotypes...
The Art of the Sacred
An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
The field of 'art and religion' is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies. Uniquely, The Art of the Sacred explores the relationship between religion and the visual arts - and vice versa - within Christianity and other major religious traditions. It identifies and describes...
Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers
Women Who Changed American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Pundits on both the right and the left often portray religion and feminism as inherently incompatible, as opposing forces in American culture. Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers seeks to dispel that notion by asking sixteen well-known religious figures to tell the story of how they became involved...
God’S Illusion Machine
The Vedic Alternative to Richard Dawkins’S God Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In the tidal wave of intellectual argument that followed the 2006 release of Richard Dawkinss God Delusion book, a fierce debate has raged between atheism and religion over the existence of God, leaving the worlds scientists and laymen largely undecided in their opinion. Gods Illusion Machine presents...
Experience, Explanation and Faith
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In this book Anthony O’Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between the personal Creator of the Bible or the Koran and a God conceived of as the indeterminate...
Seasons of Faith
Religious and Spiritual Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
"Seasons of Faith: Religious and Spiritual Poetry" By Peter Menkin, Obl Cam OSB MILL VALLEY, Calif. (Release Date TBD) Poetry, on the other hand, offers us deep riches of meaning with a remarkable economy of words. This was an art of wisdom often chosen by the mystics of the West and popularized...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Since the appearance of The Bay Psalm Book in 1640, music has served as a defining factor for American religious experience and has been of fundamental importance in the development of American identity and psyche. The essays in this long-awaited volume explore the diverse ways in which music shapes...
Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality
Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The World Parliament of Religions adopted the view that there will not be peace in this world without including peace among religions. Yet, even with the unified force of the world’s religions and wisdom traditions, this cannot be accomplished without justice among people. In one way or another,...