Religious category: 31793 books
Between Naturalism and Religion
Philosophical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age – the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday...
by Josiah Royce
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Published in 1912, this collection of seven essays sets out Royce's own religious views on such topics as "The Religious Problem and the Human Individual," "Individual and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight," "The World and the Will," and "The Religious Mission of Sorrow." The New York Times called it "vital and intelligible."
Poetry and Revelation
For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, on second or third hand experience. The best methods of thinking about "experience"...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites...
Perceiving God
The Epistemology of Religious Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
In Perceiving God, William P. Alston offers a clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience. He argues that the "perception of God"—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Philosophy of religion is focused chiefly on theism. Yet there are a growing number of new and alternative religious movements that would also benefit from philosophical scrutiny. This book is the first collection of philosophical essays, by a team of international authors, focusing on new and alternative...
Faith and Freedom
Contexts, Choices, and Crises in Religious Commitments
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
It is sometimes thought that individual religious faith should be firmly fixed in the traditions of the past. That once it is established in someone’s life, it should remain steadfast and unchanging throughout personal, cultural, or any other changes. This book subverts that idea by showing how...
Liberty in the Things of God
The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke
In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious...
The Will to Imagine
A Justification of Skeptical Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Will to Imagine completes J. L. Schellenberg's trilogy in the philosophy of religion, following his acclaimed Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion and The Wisdom to Doubt. This book marks a striking reversal in our understanding of the possibility of religious faith. Where other works treat...
Critique Of Practical Religion
The Critiques, #2
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This original, revolutionary, and innovative religious philosophy, which is written in an elegant and prolific style of Old English and Classic Philosophy explores and discovers the processes of the mind and emotions that are relative to all religious experiences. It involves deep-seated and thought-provoking...
Hidden and Inaccessible Knowledge
God the Mystic, Understanding and Not Understanding God
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
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A well-intentioned but meandering discussion of Gods sublimity that frequently sinks into invective on the evils of organized religion.
Luyinduladios central claims about enlightened religious inquiry are admirablethey should be articulated and written about more...
by Paul J. Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Exploring Religious Diversity analyzes the philosophical questions raised by the fact that many religions in the world often appear to contradict each other in doctrine and practice.
Analyzes the philosophical questions raised by the fact that many religions in the world often appear to...
Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge
Are the Scientific Study of Religion and a Religious Epistemology Compatible?
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Most comparisons of science and religion are really comparisons of science and Christianity, or science and Islam, and so forth. In Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge, the author aims to get outside typical polarized debates between traditional, a priori theism and radical, scientistic naturalism....
ISLAM
Islam world
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
This book is a collection of summarized and general debates given in one of the universities by the esteemed and intellectual author on religious principles from the followers of the Ahlu'l-Bayt(p.b.u.t) or the followers of the twelve shiite Imams, and consists of a debate on these five religious...