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Cover of The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

There is currently much discussion regarding the causes of terrorist acts, as well as the connection between terrorism and religion. Terrorism is attributed either to religious 'fanaticism' or, alternately, to political and economic factors, with religion more or less dismissed as a secondary factor....
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Dying to Religion and Empire

Giving up Our Religious Rites and Legal Rights

by Jeremy Myers
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018

Can Christianity exist without religious rites or legal rights? Are baptism and communion required for the church to exist? What about the freedom of religion and the right to assemble? Building on what he has written in other volumes of the “Close Your Church for Good” series,...
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Religion erleben

Ein Arbeitsbuch für den Religionsunterricht -

by Hans Mendl
Language: German
Release Date: November 20, 2009

Nur wer Religion erlebt, kann auch etwas über Religion lernen Religionsunterricht sollte mehr sein als nur Reden über Religion. Denn Religion muss man erleben, um sie zu verstehen. Doch Kinder und Jugendliche bringen heute oft kaum noch religiöse Erfahrungen mit. In 20 Kapiteln zeigt der...
Cover of The Common Christianity: God's Undefiled True Religion
by Paul A. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018

Christianity is the largest religion in the world today with over 2 billion followers all calling themselves Christians.  Christianity in the past suffered violence and a lot of wars were fought in the name of Christianity. Although Jesus Christ name brings peace, we have seen where the name Christianity...
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A Simple Look at Religion

Spirituality for "Dummies"

by craig lock
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019

An introductory look at the major religions of the world … for “thinkers” (and “tinkers”) and trying to find a common unity between them A collection of Craig Lock’s various articles on religion (and different religions). * Category (key words): Religion, religions, religious tolerance,...
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Religion and Modernity

An International Comparison

by Detlef Pollack, Gergely Rosta
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017

This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments. Most of the approaches in sociology of religion are prone to emphasise...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and twenty-first...
Cover of History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems
by Allan Menzies
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The science to which this little volume is devoted is a comparatively new one. It is scarcely half a century since the attention of Western Europe began to fix itself seriously on the great religions of the East, and the study of these ancient systems aroused reflection on the great facts that the...
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by Léon Tolstoï, Charles Salomon
Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2013

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé.  Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: Vous me demandez ce que j’entends par le terme religion et vous voudriez savoir si...
Cover of Religion from Tolstoy to Camus
by Dr. Walter Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

First published in 1961, this volume brings together basic writings and religious truths and morals from a wide range of sources. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Plus II, Leo XIII, Nietzsche, James, Royce, Wilde, Freud, Niemöller, Barth, Maritain, Tillich, Schweitzer, Buber, Camus, and others, all have...
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The Languages of Religion

Exploring the Politics of the Sacred

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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical...
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by Paul Coates
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy surveys the ways in which notions of religion and spirituality have impinged upon the cinema. Cinema is conceived as a post-Romantic form for which religion and spirituality can be unified only problematically. While inspecting many of the well-established...
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A Cracker Gal Finds Religion

A Life Journey Through Stories, Poems and Sermons

by Mary Louise DeWolf
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011

If you are interested in religion, or in enriching your own religion, or in searching for a religion that suits you, you will enjoy this book. It is the story of the authors religious journey in stories, poems and sermons. Early in life, her father took her brother, the oldest sibling, to one church,...
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Religion and Immigration

Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States

by Haddad, Esposito, Jane L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004

Since its inception, the United States has defined itself as a nation of immigrants and a land of religious freedom. But following September 11, 2001 American openness to immigrants and openness to other beliefs have come into question. In a timely manner, Religion and Immigration provides comparative...
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