Religion category: 228605 books
Rethinking the Space for Religion
New Actors in Central and Southeast Europe on Religion, Authenticity and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
A broad discussion about how history and religion contribute to identity politics in contemporary Europe, this book provides case studies exemplifying how public intellectuals and academics have taken an active part in the construction of recent and traditional pasts. Instead of repeating the simplistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This three-volume reference provides a complete guide for readers investigating the crucial interplay between war and religion from ancient times until today, enabling a deeper understanding of the role of religious wars across cultures.
• Enables readers to explore the ongoing and important...
When Religion Matters
Practicing Healing in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
How does starting with women's statements that "God was there" in the moment of wartime violence shift the ways we think about religion, conflict, and healing? Religion and health scholar Annie Hardison-Moody examines this interdisciplinary question through several lenses--postconflict feminist...
Religion in Secular Society
Fifty Years On
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work. It is one of the clearest articulations of the secularization thesis: the claim that modernizations brings with it fundamental changes in the nature and status of religion. For Wilson, secularization...
Living Religion
Embodiment, Theology, and the Possibility of a Spiritual Sense
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Is it reasonable to live a religiously oriented life, or is such a life the height of irrationality? Has neuroscience shown that religious experiences are akin to delusions, or might neuroscience actually support the validity of such experiences? In Living Religion James W. Jones offers a new approach...
Spiritual Honesty
The Truest Measure of Religion Is Not Obedience... It Is Behavior.
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
The great peril of any religious life is the naturally produced conflict between rules and relationships. That conflict occurs when our focus becomes primarily the living of religion, attending mostly to the outwardness of faith, to the fulfilling of commandments. It is then that religion can becomes...
by Dr. Abamfo Ofori Atiemo
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
It has been maintained that the secular nature of modern human rights makes them incompatible with the religious orientation of African and non-Western societies. However, in view of the resilience of religion in the global and local public sphere, it is important to explore how religion can contribute...
by Adam Possamai
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Generations X and Y are plugged into the contemporary world of consumption, popular culture, and the internet. These generations treat knowledge and belief as a more flexible concept, often focusing on the practical rather than the theoretical and often drawing on conflicting sources in both popular...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
In the twenty-first century, religious life is increasingly moving from churches, mosques and temples onto the Internet. Today, anyone can go online and seek a new form of religious expression without ever encountering a physical place of worship, or an ordained teacher or priest. The digital age...
Contemporary American Religion
An Ethnographic Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
No single narrative or theory can describe the varieties of religious experience in North America today. The tidy dichotomies of liberal/ conservative, public/private, local/global, and renewal/secularization make little sense once specific congregations are examined closely. To understand the shifting...
Language and Religion
A Journey into the Human Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language and Religion offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of cultural representations, dependent on language to unify diverse capacities of the human mind. It argues that religion is widespread because it is implicit in the way the mind processes the world, as it determines what we...
Religion and Ecological Crisis
The “Lynn White Thesis” at Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In 1967, Lynn White, Jr.’s seminal article The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis was published, essentially establishing the academic study of religion and nature. White argues that religions—particularly Western Christianity—are a major cause of worldwide ecological crises. He then asserts...
Religion im 'Focus' - dem modernen Nachrichtenmagazin
dem modernen Nachrichtenmagazin
Language: German
Release Date: March 7, 2007
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Theologie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Theologische Fakultät), 4 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Focus ist zu einem der bedeutendsten Nachrichtenmagazine gewachsen und genießt hohes Ansehen...
by Brenton Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Religion is evil. It doesn’t bring you closer to God
History confirms that religion is murderous. It has killed millions - even billions - of people. It choked the life out of the fledgling Christian church.
For the last 2000 years believers wanting friendship with Jesus have struggled...