Religion category: 228605 books
Religion and Psychology in Transition
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this thought-provoking book, clinical psychologist and professor of religious studies James W. Jones presents a dialogue between contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and contemporary theology. He sheds new light on the interaction of religion and psychology by viewing it from the perspective of world...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
John Rawls's influential theory of justice and public reason has often been thought to exclude religion from politics, out of fear of its illiberal and destabilizing potentials. It has therefore been criticized by defenders of religion for marginalizing and alienating the wealth of religious sensibilities,...
Welfare and Religion in 21st Century Europe
Volume 1: Configuring the Connections
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Historically, European churches have played a large part in the provision of welfare. Responsibility, however, has gradually shifted to the state - a shift that forms an integral part of the process of secularization and one that has been readily accepted by European populations. But what happens...
by Frank Sargent Hoffman, James Thompson Bixby
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
This book deals with the steps in the evolution of religion and the Influence of the Environment on Religion. The most remarkable thing yet discovered about this planet is the fact that human beings exist upon it in large numbers, scattered almost everywhere over its surface, that pay homage to superterrestrial...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
It has long been assumed that religion is in decline in the West: however it continues to have an important yet contested role in individual lives and in society at large. Furthermore half a century or so in which religion and belief were barely talked about in public has resulted in a pressing lack...
Religions as Brands
New Perspectives on the Marketization of Religion and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
During the twentieth century, religion has gone on the market place. Churches and religious groups are forced to 'sell god' in order to be attractive to 'religious consumers'. More and more, religions are seen as 'brands' that have to be recognizable to their members and the general public. What does...
Seeking Good Debate
Religion, Science, and Conflict in American Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America’s public sphere? In Seeking Good Debate, Michael S. Evans examines the results from the first-ever study to combine large-scale empirical analysis of some of our foremost religion and science debates with in-depth research into what...
by Abdullah Saeed
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Debate on freedom of religion as a human right takes place not only in the Western world but also in Muslim communities throughout the world. For Muslims concerned for this freedom, one of the major difficulties is the 'punishment for apostasy' - death for those who desert Islam. This book argues...
Oracles of Science
Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Oracles of Science examines the popular writings of the six scientists who have been the most influential in shaping our perception of science, how it works, and how it relates to other fields of human endeavor, especially religion. Biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson,...
by Adam Weishaupt
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
It's a striking feature of Protestantism that few Protestants know anything about the founder of their religion. Martin Luther is one of the most pathological figures in history. Would any sane, rational person wish to subscribe to a religion whose founder declared: "Reason is the Devil's...
Remembering Conquest
Feminist/Womanist Perspectives on Religion, Colonization, and Sexual Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Remembering Conquest: Feminist/Womanist Perspectives on Religion, Colonization, and Sexual Violence addresses the issue of sexual violence against women from feminist and womanist theological perspectives. Taken from proceedings of a panel discussion at the 1998 annual meeting of the American Academy...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
"Numerous titles focusing on particular beliefs in Africa exist, including Marcel Griaule's Conversations with Ogotemmeli, but this one presents an unparallelled exploration of a multitude of cultures and experiences.It is both a gateway to deeper exploration and a penetrating resource on its...
Religion vs. Science
What Religious People Really Think
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
At the end of a five-year journey to find out what religious Americans think about science, Ecklund and Scheitle emerge with the real story of the relationship between science and religion in American culture. Based on the most comprehensive survey ever done-representing a range of religious traditions...
Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dearth of interaction by placing the fields in an intimate dialogue. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing on feminist scholarship, the book...