Religion category: 228605 books
by Theodore John Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
In The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future, Theodore John Rivers explores the changing relationship between technology and religion. Rivers draws upon his expertise in the fields of medieval and religious history to discuss how the promotion of Christianity and monasticism in the Middle...
Christmas as Religion
Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In Christmas as Religion, Christopher Deacy explores the premise that religion plays an elementary role in our understanding of the Christmas festival, but takes issue with much of the existing literature which is inclined to limit the contours and parameters of 'religion' to particular representations...
by Jean A Pardeck, John W Murphy, Roland Meinert
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work discusses the benefits and disadvantages of the postmodern philosophy as a foundation for social work and human service practice. Social work students and practitioners will learn about the developments that have shaped postmodern thinking as...
Families and Faith
How Religion is Passed Down across Generations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from American Sociology Association Sociology of Religion Section Winner of the Richard Kalish Best Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America Few things are more likely to cause heartache to devout parents than seeing their child leave the...
Making the Bible Belt
Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the South, but the reality he described was...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies analyses the role of religion in past and present understandings of Asia. Religion, and the history of its study in the modern academy, has exercised massive influence over Asian Studies fields in the past century. Asian Studies has in turn affected, and is...
Religion and American Education
Rethinking a National Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
In the face of the current environmental crisis—which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions—members of all the world’s faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion’s relationship to ecology. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology offers a comprehensive...
Science and Religion
New Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion was decisively challenged by John Hedley Brooke in his classic Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1991). Almost two decades on, Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives revisits this argument and asks...
Religion: the Failed Narrative
Clashing Religious Doctrine and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
God emerges like a hologram in our consciousness and is falsely presented as the champion who will save us from death. Science, with its focused methodology, tells the true story.
God is the main character in religion, but he is a figment of the imagination. Humans experience consciousness...
Toward a Positive Psychology of Religion
Belief Science in the Postmodern Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Psychologist and ethicist Robert Rocco Cottone takes readers on a religious journey infusing postmodern philosophy positive psychology and ethics into a comprehensive vision of religion in the future. Defining postmodern religion in a positive engaging and educational way he answers questions like What...
The Study of Religion
An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This updated textbook unravels the complex issues related to methodology and theory in the study of religion. It equips students with the knowledge needed for the academic study of religion, explaining the history of the methodology, including ideas of key theorists, and discusses key issues in the...
Philosophy of Religion for a New Century
Essays in Honor of Eugene Thomas Long
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Philosophy of Religion for a New Century represents the work of nineteen scholars presented at a conference in honor of Eugene T. Long at the University of South Carolina, April 5-6, 2002.
This volume is a good example of philosophy in dialogue; there is both respect and genuine disagreement. First,...
The Unity of Truth
Solving the Paradox of Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Many of the seven billion people who live on the earth look to either science or religion as the ultimate source of authority in their lives. But why must there be a conflict between the two? Why cant science and religion support each other?
The Unity of Truth shows why and how it makes perfect...