Religion category: 228605 books
by Max Charlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From the works of the Greek philosophers to the Postmodernist theories of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty, this authoritative survey encompasses over two thousand years of interaction between philosophical and religious though.Exploring the various ways in which philosophy can relate to the monotheistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Henri Bergson is primarily known for his work on time, memory, and creativity. His equally innovative interventions into politics and religion have, however, been neglected or dismissed until now. In the first book in English dedicated to Bergson as a political thinker, leading Bergson scholars illuminate...
Religious Experience Reconsidered
A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious experience in the study of religion, an approach...
Religion Today
A Critical Thinking Approach to Religious Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Religion Today introduces students to key concepts in religious studies through a compelling problem-solving framework. Each chapter opens with a contemporary case study that helps students engage in current religious issues, explore possible solutions to difficult religious problems today, and learn...
Unsettling Science and Religion
Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in order to unsettle—or “queer”—the discourses of “religion” and “science,” and, by extension, the “science and religion discourse.” Drawing intellectual and social cues from works by influential theorists such as Michel...
Reading the Abrahamic Faiths
Rethinking Religion and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Rethinking religion and literature in a series of chapters by leading international scholars, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a dialogue between Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Post-Secular literary cultures.
Literary studies has absorbed religion as another interdisciplinary mode of inquiry...
by JONATHAN EDWARDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS BY JONATHAN EDWARDS
Introduction
Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion.
Part II. Showing what are no certain signs that religious affections are gracious, or that they are Not. I. It is no sign one...
Is the Apple Really Red?
10 Essays on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The clash of ideologies between science and religion - this book argues - is based on an incorrect understanding of matter, disconnected from consciousness, and an incorrect notion of God, disconnected from matter, space and time. The ideas of soul, morality, God and afterlife can also be scientific,...
From Pastor to Atheist
A Non-God Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Religion has been a powerful and determinative force in human life ever since the beginning of time. Many religions have flourished, then died. Yet the basic dynamics of religion have not changed. Religions seek to promote the gods they create, instill fear, divide people, and control behavior. After...
by Keith Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In this, the paperback edition of the influential bestseller, Keith Ward dismantles the attacks on religion by scientists, sociologists, and psychologists, who claim that religion is nothing more than a host of naïve superstitions and delusions. Examining the work of thinkers from Sigmund Freud to...
The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit
A Return to the Intelligence of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2007
Social visionary Joseph Chilton Pearce’s indictment of cultural imprinting as the cause of humankind’s cruel and violent behavior
• Refutes the Neo-Darwinist assumption that violence is inherent in humanity
• Identifies religion as the sustaining force behind our negative cultural...
God in the Tumult of the Global Square
Religion in Global Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. Others are positive and help to shape an emerging...
Against Religion, Wars, and States
The Case for Enlightenment Atheism, Just War Pacifism, and Liberal-Democratic Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In Against Religion, Wars, and States: The Case for Enlightenment Atheism, Just War Pacifism, and Liberal-Democratic Anarchism, Andrew Fiala argues that, societally, we must radically redefine our goals. A renewed focus on global justice, a heightened criticism of religion and a fuller embrace of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend...