Religious category: 31793 books
John Owen and English Puritanism
Experiences of Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
John Owen was a leading theologian in seventeenth-century England. Closely associated with the regicide and revolution, he befriended Oliver Cromwell, was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and became the premier religious statesman of the Interregnum. The restoration of the monarchy...
Love, Drugs, Art, Religion
The Pains and Consolations of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In this original and far-reaching contribution to the philosophy of religion, Brian R. Clack examines the manner in which religious belief emerges from the turbulence and anxiety of human existence. Taking his cue from Freud's suggestion that human life is so hard to bear that it requires nothing...
by Robert Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Are you irritated by dogmatic religious belief on the one hand and by close-minded, pompous atheism (of the angry Richard Dawkins variety) on the other? Would you be interested in a more intelligent perspective on religious ideas?
Intelligent people often find themselves in a dilemma regarding...
In Pursuit of Religious Freedom
Bishop Martin Stephan's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
In Pursuit of Religious Freedom is the story of Martin Stephan, a religious leader whose life was filled with both personal and spiritual crises. Born into a family whose fifteenth_and sixteenth_century ancestors twice fled their homes due to religious persecution, Stephan was orphaned as a teenager...
Singing the Congregation
How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself. Author Monique M. Ingalls argues that participatory worship music performances have brought into being new religious social constellations, or "modes of congregating". Through exploration of five of these modes--concert,...
by Emile Mâle
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The art in medieval cathedrals, in addition to its profound aesthetic appeal, told unlettered churchgoers a series of morality tales. From divine creation to the lives of the saints, the stone sculpture and stained glass windows provided dramatic illustrations of the key elements of Christian doctrine....
Encountering Religion
Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical...
In Response to the Religious Other
Ricoeur and the Fragility of Interreligious Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
In the vast collection of his writings, the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur only sporadically raised the issue of interreligious dialogue. In this book, comparative theologian Marianne Moyaert argues that Ricoeur’s hermeneutical philosophy offers valuable signposts for a better understanding of...
by Edwin S. Gaustad
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
The founder of Rhode Island and of the first Baptist Church in America, an original and passionate advocate for religious freedom, a rare New England colonist who befriended Native Americans and took seriously their culture and their legal rights, Roger Williams is the forgotten giant among the first...
Billy Graham
A Life in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Celebrating the life and legacy of one of America’s best-known religious figures in words and photographs, this book traces the amazing journey of the lanky farm boy from Charlotte, North Carolina, who grew up to preach to more than 200 million people in stadiums and arenas around the world. Written...
Saint Therese of Lisieux
A Penguin Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2003
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became-through her posthumously published autobiography-one of the world's most influential religious figures. In Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, bestselling novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison,...
Was it a Crucifixion or rather a cross' fiction?
Renowned religious figures abjure its legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This book is not on religions, but about whom the religious figures and many more persons were and are. Patriarchs, prophets, Buddha, Jesus, Mary, Joseph and associates, Lamas and Mohammad apologize to their followers for the millenarian fake they have been promoting. All the religious figures promote...
by Alejandro Cuevas-Sosa
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Remarkable story of a research project on the bioenerscience – intuitional knowledge – and a particular way of interaction with the bioenergemal (‘spiritual’) universe called bioenergemal communication. The author talks to a person (called Lucela) in relaxation as she describes extraordinary...
by Amelie Sarn
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
For readers of The Tyrant’s Daughter, Out of Nowhere, and I Am Malala, this poignant story about two Muslim sisters is about love, loss, religion, forgiveness, women’s rights, and freedom.
Two sisters. Two lives. One future.
Sohane loves no one more than her beautiful, carefree younger...