Religion category: 228605 books
Law and Religion in Public Life
The Contemporary Debate
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
With religion at centre stage in conflicts worldwide, and in social, ethical and geo-political debates, this book takes a timely look at relations between law and religion. To what extent can religion play a role in secular legal systems? How do peoples of various faiths live successfully by both...
Religion in Contemporary European Cinema
The Postsecular Constellation
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The "crisis of religion"...
by W. Clark Gilpin
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Religion Around Emily Dickinson begins with a seeming paradox posed by Dickinson’s posthumously published works: while her poems and letters contain many explicitly religious themes and concepts, throughout her life she resisted joining her local church and rarely attended services. Prompted by...
China's Green Religion
Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic, ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes of our ecological crisis and construct a sustainable future? In China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic understanding...
by Alan Bailey, Dan O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In this volume, authors Alan Bailey and Dan O’Brien examine the full import of David Hume’s arguments and the context of the society in which his work came to fruition. They analyze the nuanced natured of Hume's philosophical discourse and provide an informed look into his position on the possible...
by John Gresham Machen
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
The Origin of Paul’s Religion John Gresham Machen, presbyterian theologian in the early 20th century (1881-1937)
This ebook presents «The Origin of Paul’s Religion», from John Gresham Machen. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either for eliminating or for enforcing the walls around...
Peace Philosophy Magazine III
No death is accidental. The man has an inner knowledge of his impending death.
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
WE HELP OURSELVES, NOT THE WORLD
Before considering further how devotion to duty helps us in our spiritual progress, let me place before you in a brief compass another aspect of what we...
Secularization
An Essay in Normative Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value? Is it restricted to the west or can it occur everywhere? Using ideas of Max Weber, the book conceives secularization as a process comparable to the rational development...
The Mediatization of Religion
When Faith Rocks
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Filling a significant gap in the literature by offering a theoretical framework by which we can understand the issues of media, religion and politics Luis Mauro Sa Martino asks how can a religious denomination have any sort of influence on people in a secular age? The author presents data which suggests...
Prison Religion
Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either religious or in jail--or both. But what does it mean when imprisonment and evangelization actually go hand in hand, or at least appear to? What do "faith-based" prison programs mean for the constitutional separation of church...
Taming the Gods
Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style...
by Robert Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
We all know what religion is - or do we? Confronted with religious pluralism and cultural diversity, it manifests itself in many forms. What is Religion? serves not only as an introduction to the different belief systems flourishing throughout the modern world, but asks us to consider how the very...
Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between...