Religion category: 228605 books
Religions/Globalizations
Theories and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been...
Great Awakenings
Popular Religion and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
As religious fervor grows, Dr. Fishwick, a recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Lifetime Achievement from The American Culture Association, takes a sweeping look at religion in the United States--the country with the highest church attendance in the Western world. Popular religion can take...
Staging Faith
Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive...
African Religion
The Quarry of the Rock of Monotheism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Worldwide scholarship has established the fact that Africa is the cradle land of humanity. Dr. Kurewa promotes the theory that African Religion could very easily have been the proto-religion of humanity, and a religion from which other monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Psychological interest in religion, in terms of both theory and empirical research, has been constant since the beginning of psychology. However, since the beginning of the 21st Century, partially due to important social and political events and developments, interest in religion within personality...
by Henry Rosemont Jr., Huston Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
In this provocative volume two important scholars of religion, Huston Smith and Henry Rosemont, Jr., put forth their viewpoints and share a probing conversation. Though the two diverge considerably in their accounts of religious faith and practice, they also agree on fundamental points. Huston Smith,...
Darwin's Apple
The Evolutionary Biology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Darwin’s Apple proposes a new explanation for the origin and purpose of religion within the incontrovertible theory of evolution. It describes how religion is biologically adaptive and genetically evolved through the co-evolution of religion, ritual, and advanced human cognition.
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Time in Roman Religion
One Thousand Years of Religious History
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Religion is a major subfield of ancient history and classical studies, and Roman religion in particular is usually studied today by experts in two rather distinct halves: the religion of the Roman Republic, covering the fifth through first centuries B.C.; and the religious diversity of the Roman Empire,...
by Ellis Sandoz
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
As debates rage over the place of faith in our national life, Tocqueville’s nineteenth-century crediting of religion for shaping America is largely overlooked today. Now, in Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America, Ellis Sandoz reveals the major role that Protestant Christianity played...
Religion and Inequality in America
Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview for those interested in the role of religion and race in American history. Thirty-four scholars from the fields of...
by Kenneth D. Wald, Allison Calhoun-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Using an evidenced-based, social-scientific approach to religion, Kenneth D. Wald and Allison Calhoun-Brown challenge the perception that religious influence in American politics is a problem to be solved. Instead, they contend that religion is a form of social identification that not only shapes...
Gettysburg Religion
Refinement, Diversity, and Race in the Antebellum and Civil War Border North
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the borderland between freedom and slavery, Gettysburg remains among the most legendary Civil War landmarks. A century and a half after the great battle, Cemetery Hill, the Seminary and its ridge, and the Peach Orchard remain powerful memories for their embodiment of the small-town North and their...
My Religion: Reel or Real?
A Post-Modern Catholic’S Assessment on His Faithjourney
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
As the cradle-religion I belong to has been, at every age, probing into her managing and conserving of the Mmysterious Ttreasures entrusted to her, with the enlightenment, offered by Vatican Council II, I too longed to scrutinize my own handling of Catholic Christian Ffaith. I wanted to examine whether...