Religion category: 228605 books
by Richard Dien Winfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The war on terror cannot be truly understood without investigating the legitimacy of modernity, the challenge that religion presents to modernization, the inescapable conflicts attending the emergence and expansion of modernity, and the post-colonial predicament from which Islamist reaction arises....
The European Wars of Religion
An Interdisciplinary Reassessment of Sources, Interpretations, and Myths
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of religious change, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period....
The Will to Imagine
A Justification of Skeptical Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Will to Imagine completes J. L. Schellenberg's trilogy in the philosophy of religion, following his acclaimed Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion and The Wisdom to Doubt. This book marks a striking reversal in our understanding of the possibility of religious faith. Where other works treat...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This volume offers an empirical perspective on the so-called first generation of human rights. It explores the legitimization of these human rights by individual people, both because of their religion and because of their vision of what constitutes human dignity. The book addresses such issues as...
by Dorothy Becvar
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
One of the few books on this topic, The Family, Spirituality, and Social Work offers mental health professionals new information and research for creating more positive, effective, and satisfying sessions. You will learn how integrating spirituality and therapy can create open and trusting environments...
American Religion
Contemporary Trends - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Most Americans say they believe in God, and more than a third say they attend religious services every week. Yet studies show that people do not really go to church as often as they claim, and it is not always clear what they mean when they tell pollsters they believe in God or pray. American Religion...
by James Franklin Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
When Gene Long, editor of Kluwer's Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion Series, first invited me to write the volume on Analytic Philosophy of Religion, I accepted with great enthusiasm. My only explanation for that enthusiasm now is that I was younger and more naive at the time. Soon after...
Religion in the Kitchen
Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association
Winner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological Association
Finalist,...
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India
Critical Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India questions the assumptions of an established scientific, evidence-based global mental health paradigm by examining the practices of faith-based healing. It proposes that human beings demonstrate a dual loyalty: to science as faith and faith as science, both of which...
Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
A Critical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason was written late in his career. It presents a theory of 'radical evil' in human nature, touches on the issue of divine grace, develops a Christology, and takes a seemingly strong interest in the issue of scriptural interpretation. The essays in...
William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
William Rowe is one of the leading thinkers in contemporary philosophy of religion. Although he is best known for his contributions to the problem of evil, he has produced innovative and influential work across a wide array of subjects at the interface between philosophy and religion. He has, for...
The Body in Religion
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The Body in Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives surveys influential ways in which the body is imagined and deployed in religious practices and beliefs across the globe. Filling the gap for an up-to-date and comparative approach to theories and practices of the body in religion, this book explores...
Religion and the New Immigrants
How Faith Communities Form Our Newest Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
The explosive growth of the immigrant population since the 1960s has raised concerns about its impact on public life, but only recently have scholars begun to ask how religion affects the immigrant experience in our society. In Religion and the New Immigrants, Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge assess...
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...