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by Francisca Cho, Richard K. Squier
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book offers a Buddhist perspective on the conflict between religion and science in contemporary western society. Examining Buddhist history, authors Francisca Cho and Richard K. Squier offer a comparative analysis of Buddhist and western scientific epistemologies that transcends the limitations...
Religion and Rationality
Essays on Reason, God and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including...
Religion and Power
No Logos without Mythos
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
There are few more contentious issues than the relation of faith to power or the suggestion that religion is irrational compared with politics and peculiarly prone to violence. The former claim is associated with Juergen Habermas and the latter with Richard Dawkins. In this book David Martin argues,...
Faith, Reason and Common Sense:
An Exploration of the Historical and Contemporary Role of Religion in Human Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Have you ever wondered where religion is concerned, what you really believe?
In FAITH, REASON & COMMON SENSE the interdependence of religion and culture is examined with care and insight. Readers with strong religious convictions may be surprised to discover that the history of religion...
Political Religion and Religious Politics
Navigating Identities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Profound demographic and cultural changes in American society over the last half century have unsettled conventional understandings of the relationship between religious and political identity. The "Protestant mainline" continues to shrink in numbers, as well as in cultural and political...
Religion-State Encounters in Hindu Domains
From the Straits Settlements to Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The historical and empirical project presented here is grounded in a desire to theorize ‘religion-state’ relations in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious, secular city-state of Singapore. The core research problematic of this project has emerged out of the confluence of two domains, ‘religion,...
by Greg Albrecht
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Join Greg Albrecht as he examines what Jesus has to say about the kingdom of religion, through an eye-opening study of Jesus' sermon in Matthew 23. Jesus uses words like woe, hypocrites, blind, greedy, self-indulgent, unclean, desolate, hell and snakes to describe the religious industry, its professionals...
by Eric Weed
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
On January 20th, 2009, the United States entered a new era in terms of race relations in the country. The hopes of many Americans were not to be fulfilled and many believe race relations are worse now. The reason is the legacy of race is integral to the American nation. The Religion of White Supremacy...
Religion and Violence in South Asia
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Do religions justify and cause violence or are they more appropriately seen as forces for peace and tolerance?
Featuring contributions from international experts in the field, this book explores the debate that has emerged in the context of secular modernity about whether religion is a primary...
God on Our Side
Religion in International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This timely book offers an accessible introduction to religion in international affairs. Shireen T. Hunter highlights the growing importance of religion in politics and analyzes its nature, role, and significance. She places the question of religion’s impact on global affairs in the broader context...
Disciplining Freud on Religion
Perspectives from the Humanities and Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
It is well known that in formulating his general theoretical framework and views on religion Freud drew on multiple disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as from the humanities. This edited collection adds to the continued multidisciplinary interest in Freud by focusing on his...
Inventing American Religion
Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information. Pollsters tell us not only which political candidates will win, but how we are practicing our faith. How many Americans went to church last week? Have they been born again? Is Jesus as popular as Harry Potter? Polls...
Grounding Religion
A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Now in its second edition, Grounding Religion explores relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and practices. Established scholars introduce students to the ways in which religion shapes human–earth relations, surveying a series of questions about how the religious world influences...
by Catharine Christof
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work. It corrects the lacunae in both theatre studies and religious studies by examining the...