Religion category: 228605 books
Listening to The Echo
young adults talk about religion, spirituality, God, gods and their world
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Why do so few young people attend church? Why are Jewish and Muslim millennials so disenchanted with religion? Why are young adult Catholics so angry? How can parents, grandparents, and religious leaders understand the younger generation’s widespread rejection of institutional religion? Tom Sherwood...
White Lies
Race and Uncertainty in the Twilight of American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
White Lies considers African-American bodies as the site of cultural debates over a contested "white religion" in the United States. Rooting his analysis in the work of W.E.B. DuBois and James Baldwin, Christopher Driscoll traces the shifting definitions of "white religion" from...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this volume comprehensively examines the psychological processes associated with religion and spirituality. Leading scholars from multiple psychological subdisciplines present developmental, cognitive, social psychological, cultural, and clinical perspectives...
Death Anxiety and Religious Belief
An Existential Psychology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest speculations about the origins of religion. There are hints of this idea in the ancient world, but the theory achieves prominence in the works of Enlightenment...
Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere
Comparing Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries. The result of a five-year collaborative research project, the work examines how increasingly religiously diverse Nordic societies regulate, debate, and negotiate religion in...
Die neue Religion - Teil 1
Eine universelle Sonnenreligion
Language: German
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Dieses Buch enthält wichtige Grundelemente der Lehre Omraam Mikhael Aivanhovs. 'Die einzige wahrhaftig universelle Religion ist die Sonnenreligion, denn nur die Sprache der Sonne ist eine universelle Sprache, die alle Wesen verstehen, nämlich die des Lichts, der Wärme und des Lebens, die sie unerschöpflich...
Die neue Religion - Teil 2
Eine universelle Sonnenreligion
Language: German
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Dieses Buch enthält wichtige Grundelemente der Lehre Omraam Mikhael Aivanhovs. 'Die einzige wahrhaftig universelle Religion ist die Sonnenreligion, denn nur die Sprache der Sonne ist eine universelle Sprache, die alle Wesen verstehen, nämlich die des Lichts, der Wärme und des Lebens, die sie unerschöpflich...
The Religion of Thinness
Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women's Obsession with Food and Weight
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
With so many women approaching their diets, body image, and pursuit of a slender figure with slavish devotion, The Religion of Thinness is a timely addition to the discussion of our cultural obsession with weight loss. At the heart of this obsession is the belief that in order to be happy, one must...
by Professor Radek Kundt
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Radek Kundt compares the notion of evolution in cultural evolutionary theories with neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to determine the value of the biological concept for studying culture.
Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion surveys the historical background...
Mental Culture
Classical Social Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Why is the set of human beliefs and behaviours that we call "religion" such a widespread feature of all known human societies, past and present, and why are there so many forms of religiosity found throughout history and culture? "Mental Culture" brings together an international...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This edited book explores the impact of globalisation on the relationship between religion and politics, religion and nation, religion and nationalism, and the impact that transnationalism has on religious groups. In a post-Westphalian and transnational world, with increased international communication...
Faith in the neighborhood: Praying
The Rituals of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Praying is the second in a series of books that offer Christians a new way of understanding what it means to live and worship among America's many faiths, and introduces them to the religions that make up the American neighborhood. Praying will explore public, family, and individual worship in Judaism,...
Private Doubt, Public Dilemma
Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Each age has its own crisis—our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin, two men who struggled mightily...
Religion and Politics in Presidential Elections
The Toxic Influence of Religion in Recent Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
My frustration and disappointment with the media coverage of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections prompted me to write this book. I feel strongly about correcting the misinformation, the presentation of fabrications as truth, and the blatant demonizing of the experiences and perspectives of others....