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by ZBIGNIEW ALEXANDER
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Zbigniew Alexander believes that blind faith, aka religion, directly or indirectly drives much of the turmoil and strife in the world. He submits that the God of these faiths does not exist. He did not create us, but we did Him. In the author’s view, a stable future for mankind demands that...
The Quotidian Revolution
Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In thirteenth-century Maharashtra, a new vernacular literature emerged to challenge the hegemony of Sanskrit, a language largely restricted to men of high caste. In a vivid and accessible idiom, this new Marathi literature inaugurated a public debate over the ethics of social difference grounded in...
Race, Gender, and Religion in the Vietnamese Diaspora
The New Chosen People
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.S. and Cambodia, two communities that have been separated from one another for nearly 30 years. It compares devotion to female religious figures in two minority religions, the Virgin...
Testimonials of a Biblical Christian
A Nonreligious Perspective of the Holy Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
In the beginning there was no religion. Noah had no religion, no Bible, no Ten Commandments, no church, yet he was the only righteous man on earth before God flooded the world. At the end of days of linear time, in the new heaven and new earth of eternity, there is no religion, no Bible, no temple....
by Harald Hoffding
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
In this 1906 volume, Høffding divides his inquiry into what he terms "the problem of religion” into three broad categories: epistemological, psychological, and ethical. He addresses himself not to those are already convinced by a particular religion (or by religion in general) but rather to those who remain seekers.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Covering eclectic topics ranging from South Asian religion to motherhood to world dance to ethnomusicology, this book focuses on contemporary selected experiences of women and how their lives interface with religion.
• Examines how women draw upon their faith to address the issues they face...
Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities
The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in Sicily and Cyrene in Libya, set up inscriptions of the kind called sacred laws, but regulating worship on a larger scale than elsewhere - Selinus in the mid fifth century B.C., Cyrene in the late fourth....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With a few notable exceptions, analytical philosophy of religion in the West still continues to focus almost entirely on the Iudaeo-Christian tradition. In particular, it is all too customary to ignore the rich fund of concepts and arguments supplied by the Indian religious tradition. This is a pity,...
Religion and Sustainability
Social Movements and the Politics of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Sustainability is now key to international and national policy, manufacture and consumption. It is also central to many individuals who try to lead environmentally ethical lives. Historically, religion has been a significant part of many visions of sustainability. Pragmatically, the inclusion of religious...
Religion and the Struggle for European Union
Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In Religion and the Struggle for European Union, Brent F. Nelsen and James L. Guth delve into the powerful role of religion in shaping European attitudes on politics, political integration, and the national and continental identities of its leaders and citizens.Nelsen and Guth contend that for centuries...
The Book of the Joyful Way
The Golden Dialetik Rising
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
While life can be a montage of confusion, the concept of the Golden Dialetik can provide a unifying theory of the universe out of this disorder, and it is a concept that clarifies a hazy world vision. This unifying theory not only brings harmony to the relationship between science and religion, but...
Dumont on Religion
Difference, Comparison, Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Louis Dumont was a prominent anthropologist and sociologist whose work - notably on Indian society - influenced the study of religion. 'Dumont on Religion' introduces Dumont's work on kinship studies, structural theory, and his views on idealism. Subjects of particular interest to students of religion...
by William Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Confessions of the Last Lowly Warrior is a disclosure of the unifying thread running through the symbolisms of world religion and myth, a disclosure providing an overarching framework for the study of comparative religion, politics, economics, moral philosophy, capitalism and the general human condition. ...
Evangelizing the South
A Social History of Church and State in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Although many refer to the American South as the "Bible Belt", the region was not always characterized by a powerful religious culture. In the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, religion-in terms both of church membership and personal piety-was virtually absent from southern culture....