Religious category: 31793 books
by James J. Brodell
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Life is full of untested assumptions: Prostitution exploits women, bloody religious ceremonies are of the past, Santa is jolly, there is one God, suburban life requires a great lawn. The six stories here, some drawn from life and some tongue-in-cheek, suggest otherwise. Humans justify their existence...
by Xavier Killeen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes. (Jung) Gods Gangsters Is a short story of 13,500 words that takes place over a three day period, in the life of a sixteen year old African American drug dealer and gang member, Walter Butz. Walter was raised by very religious parents, who believe...
The Divine Sting
God Is Unimaginably Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Are beliefs in God and in the soul merely relics of pre-scientific superstition? After all, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesthe so-called age of sciencewe know that science can be proven by its fruits: its helped us split the atom and put men on the moon. Religious faith, on the other hand,...
Pure
Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
In Pure, Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us “inside religious purity culture as only one who grew up in it can” (Gloria Steinem) and reveals the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s views on female sexuality has had on...
by Phil Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of best-selling books which not only challenged the existence of god, but claimed that religious faith was dangerous and immoral. The New Atheists, as writers such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett have...
by Paul E. Dinnis
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Joshua Hinton is a native American, born in Cawker City, Kansas. His father dies a year or so after Joshua graduates from high school. He foregoes college to operate the family hardware and implement company founded by his father, and as the older son, to care for his mother and brother.A dozen...
by N. E. Boddy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2008
All the so-called "higher religions" are having a hard time coming to terms with "modernism", especially with the "truths" discovered by the scientific method. This applies even to Christianity which in some ways has been both the initiator and the long-term opponent...
by Rob Summers
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Hila Grant attends a charismatic house church that is being taken over by a highly questionable teacher. Because she tends to overdo it when challenging false teachers, she does not want to oppose Mrs. Vortgern. How can she take a stand for her faith without becoming self-righteous and vindictive?
Meanwhile,...
The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness
Von Balthasar’s Christocentric Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness begins by providing the first comprehensive account of the model of human holiness developed by the leading theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In so doing, the book also provides the first detailed explication of his Christocentric philosophical anthropology.
Part...
Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics
New Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Ludwig Wittgenstein was an outstanding 20th-century philosopher whose influence has reverberated throughout not only philosophy but also numerous other areas of inquiry, including theology and the study of religions. Exemplifying how Wittgenstein's thought can be engaged with both sympathetically...
A Search for Meaning in Victorian Religion
The Spiritual Journey and Esoteric Teachings of Charles Carleton Massey
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Christian mystic, astrologer, and spiritualist, Charles Carleton Massey (1838–1905) underwent an eclectic spiritual journey that resulted in a series of articles, letters, and booklets that have largely been neglected by modern society. Massey was a child of privilege formally trained as a barrister...
The Social Life of Tibetan Biography
Textuality, Community, and Authority in the Lineage of Tokden Shakya Shri
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The Social Life of Tibetan Biography explores the creation of Tibetan religious authority in Tibetan cultural areas throughout East, Inner, and South Asia through engaging with the relationship between textual biography and social community in the case of the Eastern Tibetan yogi Tokden Shakya Shri...
The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan's Buddhist Monasteries
Social and Ritual Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Beth Szczepanski examines how traditional and modern elements interact in the current practice, reception and functions of wind music, or shengguan, at monasteries in Wutaishan, one of China's four holy mountains of Buddhism. The book provides an invaluable insight into the political and economic...
by Quin Hillyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Meet Mad Jones, a high school history teacher who, in the midst of unspeakable tragedy, literally nails religious theses to church doors. He does so with no expectation that they will be taken seriously, or even widely read – but, in this age of modern electronic communications and instant celebrity,...