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by John Corrigan, Winthrop Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This comprehensive narrative account of religion in America from the sixteenth century through the present depicts the religious life of the American people within the context of American society. It addresses topics ranging from the European origins of American religious thought and the diversity...
When Atheism Becomes Religion
America's New Fundamentalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects.
Chris...
Prayer Is a Place
America's Religious Landscape Observed
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
A leading authority on religion and spirituality in America recounts the changes she witnessed from 1992–2004, a period she compares to the tumultuous years of the Reformation and Peri-Reformation in Europe.
As the founding editor of the religion department of Publishers Weekly, Phyllis Tickle...
Food, Sex and Strangers
Understanding Religion as Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Religion is more than a matter of worshipping a deity or spirit. For many people, religion pervades every part of their lives and is not separated off into some purely private and personal realm. Religion is integral to many people's relationship with the wider world, an aspect of their dwelling among...
Putting God Second
How to Save Religion from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Why have the monotheistic religions failed to produce societies that live up to their ethical ideals? A prominent rabbi answers this question by looking at his own faith and offering a way for religion to heal itself.
In Putting God Second, Rabbi Donniel Hartman tackles one of modern life’s...
The Frankfurt School on Religion
Key Writings by the Major Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
In "The Frankfurt School on Religion," Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than...
by Léon Tolstoï, Charles Salomon.
Language: French
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait:
Vous me demandez ce que j’entends par le terme religion et vous voudriez savoir si je considère...
The Philosophy of Religion
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
For over twenty years, Beverley Clack and Brian R. Clack's distinctive and thought-provoking introduction to the philosophy of religion has been of enormous value to students and scholars, providing an approach to the subject that is bold and refreshingly alternative.
This revised and updated...
by James DiCenso
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
This book offers a systematic examination of the place of religion within Kant's major writings. Kant is often thought to be highly reductionistic with regard to religion - as though religion simply provides the unsophisticated with colourful representations of moral lessons that reason alone could...
William James's Hidden Religious Imagination
A Universe of Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand...
Religion in America
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives defining the American identity. The first narrative, derived from the philosophy of the Enlightenment, is essentially secular. Associated with the Founding Fathers and reflected in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Encyclopedia of Islamic Civilization and Religion provides scholarly coverage of the religion, culture and history of the Islamic world, at a time when that world is undergoing considerable change and is a focus of international study and debate.
The non-Muslim world's perceptions of Islam...
Religion on Trial
How Supreme Court Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
The free exercise of conscience is under threat in the United States. Already the conservative bloc of the Supreme Court is reversing the progress of religious liberty that had been steadily advancing. And this danger will only increase if more conservative judges are nominated to the court. This...
Christianity and Liberalism
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The purpose of this book is not to decide the religious issue of the present day, but merely to present the issue as sharply and clearly as possible, in order that the reader may be aided in deciding it for himself. Presenting an issue sharply is indeed by no means a popular business at the present...