Religion category: 228605 books
Jefferson's Scissors
Solving the Conflicts of Religion with Science and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Many books have appeared that argue at the ends of the Christian spectrum on the reality of God. On the left there are such books as, God Is Not Great (Christopher Hitchens) arguing that a god and religion are not needed in todays world, and at the far right Fundamentalists push books which speak...
Bude
Systematic Cultural and Religious Transformation of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
"Bude" describes the interactions of two different cultures and religions not only separated by the ocean but also by distance.
Polar, a character in "Bude" depicts the culture and the religion of the Igodo people prior to an external cultural and religious influences while...
by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2009
SUBJECT OF OUR STUDY: RELIGIOUS SOCIOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE In this book we propose to study the most primitive and simple religion which is actually known, to make an analysis of it, and to attempt an explanation of it. A religious system may be said to be the most primitive which we can observe...
Method as Identity
Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion emphasizes the inexorable influence that social identities exert in shaping methodological choices within the academic study of religion, as witnessed in sui generis appeals to particularity and reliance on (or rejection...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: German
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Dieses eBook: "Die Zukunft einer Illusion" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Zukunft einer Illusion ist eine 1927 erschienene Schrift von Sigmund Freud. Sie gilt als sein Hauptwerk über die Religion, als zeitgenössisches...
by Dada Bhagwan
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Those seeking to lead a spiritual life inevitably face challenges in their pursuit of spirituality and practice. As spiritual development progresses, facing one’s faults, failures, and unintentional mistakes become disconcerting – even for the most sincere seeker. One may then ask, “What are...
From Sacred Text to Internet
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This title was first published in 2001: From Sacred Text to Internet addresses two key issues affecting the global spread of religion: first, the impact of new media on the ways in which religious traditions present their messages, and second, the global relocation of religions in novel geographical...
La religion (Fiche notion)
LePetitPhilosophe.fr - Comprendre la philosophie
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Devenez incollable sur la notion de religion avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr !Cette fiche propose une analyse approfondie de la notion religion, avec une introduction générale, l'analyse des diverses approches philosophiques du concept et une synthèse de ce qu'il faut en retenir. La fiche est complétée...
The Cult of Saint Catherine of Siena
A Study in Civil Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book examines the origins, development and history of the cult of Saint Catherine of Siena. Gerald Parsons argues that the cult of Catherine of Siena constitutes a remarkable example of the cult of a particular saint which, across more than six centuries, has been the vehicle for an evolving...
Religion in Britain
A Persistent Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Religion in Britain evaluates and sheds light on the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain; it explores the country’s increasing secularity alongside religion’s growing presence in public debate, and the impact of this paradox on Britain’s society.
Describes and explains the...
by Voltaire
Language: French
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Extrait:
L’ABBÉ COUET. — Quoi ! monsieur le comte, vous croyez la philosophie aussi utile au genre humain que la religion apostolique, catholique et romaine ?
LE COMTE DE BOULAINVILLIERS. — La philosophie étend son empire sur tout l’univers, et votre Église ne...
New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion
Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2009
Having enjoyed more than a decade of lively critique and creativity, feminist philosophy of religion continues to be a vital field of inquiry. New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion maintains this vitality with both women and men, from their own distinctive social and material locations, contributing...
by Anil Chawla
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Hinduism existed before Ram as well as Krishn. Hinduism has always been and shall always be. It is truly an eternal religion.
Hinduism is a philosophical system or paradigm which is based on relationship of individual with the cosmos in a non-adversarial manner. Man (including woman) is part...
by Jesse Benedict Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Rome forms no exception to the general rule that nations, like individuals, grow by contact with the outside world. In the middle of the five centuries of her republic came the Punic wars and the intimate association with Greece which made the last half of her history as a republic so different from...