Religion category: 228605 books
by C.A. James
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
"Are all religions losing adherents? On the surface, you might think everything is fine for Christian churches in America. Christianity is losing ground, but the trend is slow, just a percent here and there. But it turns out there is some very bad news hiding in the numbers..."Christianity...
Trauma and Lived Religion
Transcending the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2018
This book focuses on the power of the ‘ordinary’, ‘everydayness’ and ‘embodiment’ as keys to exploring the intersection of trauma and the everyday reality of religion. It critically investigates traumatic experiences from a perspective of lived religion, and therefore, examines how trauma...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Presenting cutting edge research on how religion can confront and obscure social inequalities in everyday life, Religion, Equalities and Inequalities argues that when religion is left out of social scientific analyses, it can result in incomplete analyses that conceal pathways to social inclusion...
Reviving Roman Religion
Sacred Trees in the Roman World
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Sacred trees are easy to dismiss as a simplistic, weird phenomenon, but this book argues that in fact they prompted sophisticated theological thinking in the Roman world. Challenging major aspects of current scholarly constructions of Roman religion, Ailsa Hunt rethinks what sacrality means in Roman...
Der junge Hegel
Religionsphilosophie
Language: German
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Institut für Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Der junge Hegel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1.1 Religionsbegriff bei Kant Zentral in Kants Religionsschrift...
by James Freeman Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Ethnic and Catholic Religions. § 1. Object of the present Work. The present work is what the Germans call a _Versuch_, and the English an Essay, or attempt. It is an attempt to compare the great religions of the world with each other. When completed, this comparison ought to show what each is, what...
Politik und Religion
Zur Diagnose der Gegenwart
Language: German
Release Date: May 24, 2017
«Politik und Religion» ist wieder ein zentraler Gegenstand der öffentlichen Debatte. Nach langen Jahren, in denen viele Sozialwissenschaftler die Erwartung hegten, der religiöse Glaube werde im Gefolge des «Modernisierungsprozesses» allmählich ausgezehrt und schließlich absterben, wird heute...
by Christina Mehs
Language: German
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Theologie - Sonstiges, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sigmund Freud und die Psychoanalyse. Den meisten Leuten sagen diese zwei Begriffe auf Anhieb etwas, da Sigmund Freuds Theorien bezüglich der kindlichen...
Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
Eine Annäherung an Max Webers »Weberthese«
Language: German
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Theologie - Systematische Theologie, Universität Bremen (Institut für Religionswissenschaft), 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Bedeutung von Religion als grundlegendes Muster menschlichen Handelns wurde in den achtziger...
by Leah Zehkorn
Language: German
Release Date: June 2, 2005
Language: German
Release Date: June 2, 2005
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Theologie - Didaktik, Religionspädagogik, Note: sehr gut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Veranstaltung: Seminar, 10 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es ist nicht zu verleugnen, dass sich gegenwärtig...
Was darf Religion?
Ein Essay zur aktuellen Beschneidungsdebatte
Language: German
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Religion - Gesetz - Moral: Eine Gesellschaft im Zwiespalt Die Freiheit der Religion und ihrer Ausübung ist bei uns - mit Fug und Recht - grundgesetzlich garantiert. Und doch wird sie in diesen Tagen angesichts der Diskussion um die Beschneidung von Jungen im Islam und im Judentum unvermittelt und...
American Gospel
God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how the Founding Fathers viewed faith—and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice.
At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American Gospel draws on the...
Red State Religion
Faith and Politics in America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly...
by Frank Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American...