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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of original articles, written by leading contemporary European and American philosophers of religion, is presented in celebration of the publication of the fiftieth volume of the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
Following the Editor's Introduction, John Macquarrie,...
Gods and Arms
On Religion and Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war--both in a destructive and constructive way. Religion can justify and mobilize violence--even terrorism or guerilla wars--just like political ideology. But how is such a link between religion and...
The Evolving God
Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In focusing on the story of Darwin's religious doubts, scholars too often overlook Darwin's positive contribution to the study of religion.
J. David Pleins traces Darwin's journey in five steps. He begins with Darwin's global voyage, where his encounter with religious and cultural diversity...
by Andrea Schlafke
Language: German
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: German
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Praktikumsbericht / -arbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Theologie - Religion als Schulfach, Note: 2,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 14 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 2. Bedingungsanalyse Bedingungen an der Volksschule Der Religionsunterricht an der Volksschule...
by Caroline Dorsch
Language: German
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Theologie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Religionswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Religionssoziologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Peter Ludwig Berger, geboren 1929 in Wien, studierte in...
Musik und Religion. Konkretionen zum Verhältnis von ästhetischer und religiöser Erfahrung
Konkretionen zum Verhältnis von ästhetischer und religiöser Erfahrung
Language: German
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Theologie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Musik und Religion sind bereits seit Urzeiten Bestandteile menschlicher Kulturen. Sie stehen in vielerlei Beziehungen zueinander, die weit über das Orgelspiel...
Fields of Blood
Religion and the History of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence.
For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general...
On Roman Religion
Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion...
by Winifred Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Why do I exist? Is this all there is? What is my true nature? What is most important in life? How should I live? These are humanity's oldest spiritual questions. At the year 2000, however, many who ask them are profoundly estranged from religion. To some, religion is belief in the unbelievable--incom-patible...
Natural Religion
The Ultimate Religion of Mankind
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Driven by the dissatisfaction and turmoil in religion at the time this book was originally published in 1923, the author sets out a belief that all people have an inborn religion and investigates what the future of this religion might be as it changes from age to age. In the short chapters here the...
by Henri Bergson
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la religion Henri Bergson, philosophe français, prix Nobel de littérature (1859-1941) Félix Alcan, 1937, 20ème édition Annoté par l'auteur
Ce livre numérique présente "Les Deux Sources de la...
Weber and the Persistence of Religion
Social Theory, Capitalism and the Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
There is an increasing interest in religion and belief and the diverse forms these take in the contemporary world. This timely book provides a unique analysis of these issues through a discussion of the work of Marx and Weber.
Taking Max Weber’s interpretations of capitalism and religion...
by Kasper von Greyerz
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective social, cultural and spiritual exercises. Developments from this era had immediate impact on these societies, much of which resonates to the present day....
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 1
The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion...