Religion category: 228605 books
Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith
Haitian Religion in Miami
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s,
significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami.
Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in
America, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as more
recently arriving immigrants...
Religion and Politics Under Capitalism
A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come. The study of the interrelationship between contemporary religious practice and modern politics is divided between...
by Dennis Vanden Auweele
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
The historical period of the Enlightenment is usually thought of as the high point of philosophical optimism. By breaking the chains of traditional heteronomous morality, the tutelage of dogmatic religion and the oppression of authoritarian politics, the Enlightenment created the space for a new,...
by David Low Dodge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ David Low Dodge, founder of the New York Bible Society and the New York Tract Society (1774-1852)
This ebook presents «War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ», from David Low Dodge. A dynamic table of contents enables...
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
American Representations of India, 1721-1893
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about "Hinduism," they speculated at length about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." In Heathen, Hindoo,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The “Dialogue between and Christian and a Hindu about Religion” (Javābasvāla aika krīstīān aura aika hīdu ke bīca mo imāna ke upara) was written in about 1751 by Giuseppe Maria da Gargnano with help from his Capuchin friend and colleague, Cassiano da Macerata, and from an unnamed Brahmin...
The Universe Is Not Creation
An Exposé of Religion the Intelligent Believer Paradox Human Relations in a Religion-Free World
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
There is no Creator: Religion is a Fraud, What Now? demonstrates the falsehood and fraud of religion by proving beyond a reasonable doubt the non-existence of a "creator." All but the most timid and ignorant readers should be emboldened to cast off the imaginary crutches "god"...
Religion and Civil Society in the Arab World
In the Vortex of Globalization and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book examines the links between civil society, religion and politics in the Middle East and North Africa region. The chapters in the volume explore the role of religion in shaping and changing the public sphere in regions that are developing and/or in conflict. They also discuss how these relations...
The Link between Religion and Health
Psychoneuroimmunology and the Faith Factor
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
This book is the first to present new medical research establishing a connection between religion and health and to examine the implications for Eastern and Western religious traditions and for society and culture. The distinguished list of contributors examine a series of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)...
by Sam Harris
Language: French
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Votre guide pour une pratique spirituelle rationnelle validée par les neurosciences
Et si la spiritualité devenait enfin une science de l'esprit ?
Dans cet essai percutant et provocant, Sam Harris nous montre que le chemin spirituel, l'expérience que la conscience peut transcender l'ego,...
Die Bedeutung von Kirche und Religion in der Gesellschaft
Eine Untersuchung der religiösen Lebenswelt
Language: German
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Theologie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Religionspädagogik als empirische Wissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den theologischen Wissenschaftszweigen...
The Search
Looking for Truth in the Christian Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This story is an insight into the views and understandings of someone raised in a strict Catholic family, forced to learn a religion at the earliest age. This study was undertaken after a near lifetime of reflection upon the beliefs and the basis of his religious teachings. This exercise in researching...
Good Little Church Girl Ascends
Finding the Truth Within
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Rebecca has been a good little church girl for most of her life, since her mother brought her into the church at age five. Being socially awkward and somewhat of a misfit within society, she found refuge in the church and a place where she thought people accepted her for who she was- a place she could...
by Carole Rakodi
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
This book analyses how religion is entangled in people’s lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. It provides an introduction to the teachings, practices and values promoted by the main religious traditions in these regions and an overview of the evidence on what religion means to people in...