Religion category: 228605 books
Religion in the 21st Century
Challenges and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In spite of the debate about secularization or de-secularization, the existential-bodily need for religion is basically the same as always. What have been changed are the horizons within which religions are interpreted and the relationships within which religions are integrated. This book explores...
The Invention of Religion
Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan...
When Science Meets Religion
Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The Definitive Introduction To
The Relationship Between
Religion And Science
∗ In The Beginning: Why Did the Big Bang Occur?
∗ Quantum Physics: A Challenge to Our Assumptions About Reality?
∗ Darwin And Genesis: Is Evolution God′s Way of Creating?
∗...
The Study of Religion (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
(The Contemporary Science Series)
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The author believes that—in the course of history—few forces are more powerful than religion and therefore religion is worthy of rigorous study. In his 1901 work, Jastrow tackles fundamental questions about the origin, character, and classification of religion, as well as ethics, philosophy, psychology,...
by Bonnie J. Taylor, John S. Hatcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
One Reality: The Harmony of Science and Religion is a compilation of passages from the Bahai writings that explores the relationship between science and religion, and demonstrates the Bahai perspective that the two seemingly opposing forces can live in perfect harmony. As Abdul-Baha, the son of the Prophet...
Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone
Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone provides a critical examination of the Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion who claim that the word 'God' cannot be understood as referring to a metaphysical being who may or may not exist. McCutcheon traces the arguments offered by these philosophers...
Hegel's Interpretation of the Religions of the World
The Logic of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel treats the religions of the world under the rubric "the determinate religion." This is a part of his corpus that has traditionally been neglected since scholars have struggled to understand what philosophical work it is supposed to do....
Non Nobis, Domine
Religion, Spirituality, Mathematics and Physics in the Light of the Postulate of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Non Nobis, Domine, from the author of The Axioms of Being and the Renaissance of the Templars Religion and spirituality have been portrayed as products of superstition and fear of the unknown. The tenets of religion are considered to be the antithesis of science. Science, on the other hand, is knowledge...
Devotions and Desires
Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
At a moment when "freedom of religion" rhetoric fuels public debate, it is easy to assume that sex and religion have faced each other in pitched battle throughout modern U.S. history. Yet, by tracking the nation's changing religious and sexual landscapes over the twentieth century, this...
by Adriana Muller
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
There is only one God, yet religions are plenty. In Science, Religion, and God, author Adriana Muller unites science with religion and explains God from a scientific point of view. She discusses how religions were created by gods who were wealthy people protected by armiespeople who believed that...
by Dada Bhagwan, Dr. Niruben Amin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Those seeking to lead a spiritual life inevitably face challenges in their pursuit of spirituality and practice. As spiritual development progresses, facing one’s faults, failures, and unintentional mistakes become disconcerting – even for the most sincere seeker.
One may then ask, “What...
Religion of the Field Negro
On Black Secularism and Black Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Black theology has lost its direction. To reclaim its original power and to advance racial justice struggles today black theology must fully embrace blackness and theology. But multiculturalism and religious pluralism have boxed in black theology, forcing it to speak in terms dictated by a power structure...
by Léon Tolstoï, J.-Wladimir Bienstock, Paul Birukov
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Toujours, dans toutes les sociétés humaines, à certaines périodes de leur existence, un temps arrive où la religion, d’abord toute-puissante, déclinant ensuite de plus en plus, perd sa signification principale et enfin prend une forme définitive où...
Ancient Philosophy of Religion
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The origins of the Western philosophical tradition lie in the ancient Greco-Roman world. This volume provides a unique insight into the life and writings of a diverse group of philosophers in antiquity and presents the latest thinking on their views on God, the gods, religious belief and practice....