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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Writing History, Constructing Religion presents a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of debates among historians, scholars of religion and cultural theorists over the 'nature' of history to the study of religion. The distinguished authors discuss issues related to definitions...
Converging Paths to Truth
The Summerhays Lectures on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Are science and religion in conflict with one another, or do they support each other? Does one's belief and allegiance to science discredit or disavow religion - or vice versa? Many great scientists such as Newton and Einstein spoke and wrote freely of their religious thoughts and feelings, seeing...
Manufacturing Religion
The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1997
In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent scholarship...
In the Name of God
The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Ethics and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Religion is one of the most powerful forces running through human history, and although often presented as a force for good, its impact is frequently violent and divisive. This provocative work brings together cutting-edge research from both evolutionary and cognitive psychology to help readers understand...
by Stephen Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This introductory text explores the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life, through an examination of practice and belief. Author Hunt reconsiders how theories and concepts are lived at the level of selfhood and cultural identity, through religious and spiritual belief. At...
The Persistence of Religion
Comparative Perspectives on Modern Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
In the nineteenth century, Nietzsche famously announced that God was dead. In the twentieth century, an increasing reliance on science and technology led to a widespread rejection of belief on the grounds of its irrationality. Yet for all the scepticism directed towards it, religion has not died....
by William Stringfellow
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The author hits hard at the manipulation of religion for personal, corporate and national self-interests; and sets forth the possibility and content of a relevant and honest witness to Christ in both private and public affairs.
“This is a tract. It consists of four essays about the status...
by John Renard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Providing detailed descriptions of the beliefs, rituals, history, and organization of the world’s eight major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto, this fully revised and updated edition is an easy-to-use comparative guide...
by Ochnavi Atatoj
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This has to be not big material, and the idea is very young for me, but it seems so philosophically profound in my opinion that I just can’t wait more before its publication. And why should I invent religious fables now? For one thing I have invented a pair of religions under my traditional pseudonym...
Religion and the New Immigrants
Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2000
New immigrants_those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965_have forever altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn. Although the religious congregations they form are often a nexus of their negotiation between the old and new, they have received little scholarly...
Philosophy of Religion for OCR
The Complete Resource for Component 01 of the New AS and A Level Specification
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Philosophy of Religion for OCR is an ideal guide for students taking the Philosophy of Religion component of the OCR Religious Studies AS and A Level course. Drawing on insights gained from many years of teaching experience, Dennis Brown and Ann Greggs’ landmark book follows the OCR specification...
Religion, NGOs and the United Nations
Visible and Invisible Actors in Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace? What processes do they adopt? Is there a “spiritual” UN today? This book is the first interdisciplinary study to present extensive fieldwork results from an examination of the activity...
Religion, Gender, and Industry
Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
What part did religion play in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain? How did the local situation differ from the national picture? What was the role of women in society and the church? And how did the emerging centers of industrial activity interact with the places in which they sprung...
Jacob Neusner on Religion
The Example of Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Jacob Neusner was a prolific and innovative contributor to the study of religion for over fifty years. A scholar of rabbinic Judaism, Neusner regarded Jewish texts as data to address larger questions in the academic study of religion that he helped to formulate. Jacob Neusner on Religion offers the...