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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This volume examines the legal status of religion in education, both public and non-public, in the United States and seven other nations. It will stimulate further interest, research, and debate on comparative analyses on the role of religion in schools at a time when the place of religion is of vital...
by Ebru Thwaites Diken
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema. It investigates their common origin—the spectacle, which each field views as an instrument of governmentality. The book analyses six recent, some of which are internationally known...
by Montesquieu
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2013
De l’esprit des lois - XXV Montesquieu, philosophe français (1689-1755)
Ce livre numérique présente «De l’esprit des lois - XXV», de Montesquieu, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...
Religion's Cell
Doctrines of the Church That Lead to Bondage and Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Religion's Cell by Cynthia McClaskey is a masterful exploration of the ways in which organized religion has, through the centuries, systematically denied woman her proper role in the church and the world. Beginning with a firsthand account of her own subjugation within a fundamentalist sect, McClaskey...
Early Modern Philosophy of Religion
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The early modern period in philosophy - encompassing the 16th to the 18th centuries - reflects a time of social and intellectual turmoil. The Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the birth of the Enlightenment all contributed to the re-evaluation of reason and faith. The revolution...
Medieval Philosophy of Religion
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The Medieval period was one of the richest eras for the philosophical study of religion. Covering the period from the 6th to the 16th century, reaching into the Renaissance, "The History of Western Philosophy of Religion 2" shows how Christian, Islamic and Jewish thinkers explicated and...
Vom Jakobsweg zum Tierfriedhof
Wie Religion heute lebendig ist
Language: German
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Das vorliegende Buch greift die durch den Religionssoziologen Hubert Knoblauch formulierte Forderung [Erforscht die gelebte Religion!] in zweifacher Hinsicht auf. Erstens bietet es ausgewählte aktuelle Beispiele dafür, wo und wie Religion in ihren gelebt-populären Ausdrucksweisen im unübersichtlichen...
by J. L. Schellenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"There is no attempt here to lay down as inviolable or to legislate certain ways of looking at things or ways of proceeding for philosophers of religion, only proposals for how to deal with a range of basic issues—proposals that I hope will ignite much fruitful discussion and which, in any case,...
The Confluence of Law and Religion
Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Work of Norman Doe
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Since the early 1990s, politicians, policymakers, the media and academics have increasingly focused on religion, noting the significant increase in the number of cases involving religion. As a result, law and religion has become a specific area of study. The work of Professor Norman Doe at Cardiff...
Patterns of Secularization
Church, State and Nation in Greece and the Republic of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The politicization of religion is a central feature of the modern world, pointing to the continued relevance of the secularization debate: does modernization result in the decline of the social and political significance of religion or rather in a reaffirmation of religious values? This book examines...
Religion With/Out Religion
The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Written in response to John Caputo's The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, this work gathers together cutting-edge theologians and philosophers to examine the relationship between Derridan deconstruction and religion. Containing a lengthy counter-response by Caputo, as well as an interview, Religion...
Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation
Essays in Reformational Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Reformational philosophy rests on the ideas of nineteenth-century educator, church leader, and politician Abraham Kuyper, and it emerged in the early twentieth century among Reformed Protestant thinkers in the Netherlands. Combining comprehensive criticisms of Western philosophy with robust proposals...
Aging and God
Spiritual Pathways to Mental Health in Midlife and Later Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This important book examines the relationship between religion and mental health throughout the life cycle, with a special emphasis on later life. It asserts that successful aging is possible regardless of physical health or environmental circumstances, and that religious beliefs and behaviors may...
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality provides readers with a critical overview of what psychology tells us about religion and spirituality. It is concise without being simplistic, and the first such broad overview to be published for some years. Fraser Watts recognizes that 'religion' is complex...