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Modern world needs a moral and spiritual renaissance to surpass the actual crisis. The historic religions have not the capacity to perform this objective, because rested behind with explanations and entered in contradiction with science and modern knowledge. Christian religion occupies a special position....

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 2,3, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Religionswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Hausarbeit 'Ist Scientology...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 1,5, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Religionswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Essay 'Der Begriff der Religion' Gliederung...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Religionswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der hier verfasste Essay wird das Werk...

Édition 1911 Ouvrage complet 331 pages   Le domaine propre de l’histoire des religions est assez étendu, et jusqu’à présent assez inexploré ou mal exploré, pour qu’il ne soit pas opportun et qu’il soit même imprudent de détruire la limite qui le sépare...

"In this thoughtful book, Ken Woodward offers us a memorable portrait of the past seven decades of American life and culture. From Reinhold Niebuhr to Billy Graham, from Abraham Heschel to the Dali Lama, from George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton, Woodward captures the personalities and charts the...

A groundbreaking new theory of religion Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory...

Grotius’s The Truth of the Christian Religion was first published in Leiden in 1627 in Latin. Written in plain and direct language for his countrymen, this short work aimed to show those who would encounter pagans, Muslims, and Jews that the Christian religion was the true revealed religion. In...

Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research. Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories,...

"Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions."Few people would ever expect that Karl Marx is the writer...

In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians, who set out to present their culture...

Are science and religion in accord or are they diametrically opposed to each other? The common perspectives-for or against religion-are based on the same question, "Do religion and science fit together or not?†? These arguments are usually stuck within a preconceived notion of realism...

Toujours, dans toutes les sociétés humaines, à certaines périodes de leur existence, un temps arrive où la religion, d’abord toute-puissante, déclinant ensuite de plus en plus, perd sa signification principale et enfin prend une forme définitive où elle se fixe ; dès lors, son action sur...

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion. This interpretation has become conventional wisdom: secularization is widely understood as entailing the privatization of religion, and the separation of religion from power. This book turns that conventional...