Religion category: 228605 books
Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion
Between Public Reason and Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
What is the place of religion in a pluralist democracy? The continuous presence of religion in the public sphere has raised anew normative and practical issues related to the role of religion in a democratic polity, generating spirited political debates in Western and non-Western contexts. Contemporary...
by Charles W. Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
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There are so many different religious systems in the world, each claiming not only to be right but to be divine, that a rational mind, unwarped by sect or creed, is likely to become bewildered and disgusted in its efforts to reach and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The Handbook of Religion and Society is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of a vital force in the world today. It is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the role of religion in society. This includes both the...
Media and Religion
Foundations of an Emerging Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This text examines the history, theory, cultural context, and professional aspects of media and religion. While religion has been explored more fully in psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the humanities, there is no clear bridge of understanding to the communication discipline. Daniel A. Stout...
Religion and the Public Sphere
New Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations explores the changing contribution of religion to public life today. Bringing together a diverse group of preeminent scholars on religion, each chapter explores an aspect of religion in the public realm, from law, liberalism, the environment and security...
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It does not assume that religion is of the past and that the urban is secular, but instead points out that urban politics and governance often manifest religious boundaries...
Toward a Latin American Psychology of Religion
Evolution, Tendencies and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Psychology of Religion is a rapidly developing field that traces its beginning back to the 1902 ground-breaking publication of The Varieties of Religious Experience by United States psychologist William James. Unfortunately, this study is a long-overdue response to what seems to be a resounding...
Does Religion Cause Violence?
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
One of the most pressing issues of our time is the outbreak of extremist violence and terrorism, done in the name of religion. This volume critically analyses the link made between religion and violence in contemporary theory and proposes that 'religion' does not have a special relation to violence...
Women and Religion in the West
Challenging Secularization
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are...
Theorising Religion
Classical and Contemporary Debates
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Religion is controversial and challenging. Whilst religious forces are powerful in numerous societies, they have little or no significance for wide swaths of public or private life in other places. The task of theoretical work in the sociology of religion is, therefore, to make sense of this apparently...
Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality
Britain in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In recent years, controversial issues related to religion or belief, discrimination, equality and human rights have come to the fore, especially in the context of public debates around multiculturalism following the 'social policy shock' created by the impact of violent religious extremism. For example...
Religion and Cognition
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The cognitive science of religion examines the mental processes that govern religious belief and behaviour. It offers a fresh and exciting approach to the scientific study of religion. 'Religion and Cognition' brings together key essays which outline the theory and illustrate this with experimental...
by John Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
In a thoroughly updated second edition of his popular and engaging book, John D. Caputo revisits Augustine’s ancient question "what do I love when I love my God?" and presses it into service in the post-modern world. Accessible but without compromising the big ideas, he raises the question...
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
Volume I: Early Greek Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Was Ancient Greek religion really 'mere ritualism'? Early Christians denounced the pagans for the disorderly plurality of their cults, and reduced Greek religion to ritual and idolatry; protestant theologians condemned the pagan 'religion of form' (with Catholicism as its historical heir). For a long...