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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Each essay in this Companion examines one or more literary texts and a religious tradition to illustrate how we can understand both literature and religion better by looking at them in tandem. Unlike most literature and religion books, which tend to focus on Christianity and take a highly theoretical...
Beards and Funny Hats
Who Is Worshipped in Religion, and What God Has Got to Do With It
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Religion is … what? A way of thinking, an explanation of things that exist, a code of behaviour and morals, a social network? Perhaps a style of dress, and certain kinds of music. Surely included in it is adoration or fear of someone. Also some things that aren’t normally thought of as religion—works...
by Olivier Cariguel, Charles Ficat, Thomas Gomart
Language: French
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Dossier : De quoi Fillon est-il le nom ?
→ François Fillon, l’homme des trois droites par Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Franz-Olivier Giesbert retrace le parcours politique de François Fillon, homme à la fois libéral et conservateur. Il synthétise pour lui les trois droites : légitimiste,...
Religion and the Secular
Historical and Colonial Formations
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Religion has dominated colonialism since the 16th century. 'Religion and the Secular' critically examines how religion has been used to subject indigenous concepts to the needs of colonial powers. Essays present the colonial relationship from the perspective of colonized cultures - including Mexico,...
Everyday Sacred
Religion in Contemporary Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Over the last decade there has been ongoing discussion about the place of religion in Québécois society, particularly following the proposed Charter of Quebec Values in 2013. The essays in Everyday Sacred emerged from this active and often tense period of debate. Revitalizing an awareness of how people...
Beholden
Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion Global health efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches: a human rights-based approach to health and equity-often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development activities; or a religious or humanitarian...
The Cosmic Religion
The Next Step
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The author wrote this book while seeking personal answers to situations and their existing problems encountered in his life. The Cosmic Religion is a book written to provide information about past and present religions in our world – it does not promote any one religion. Many religions have constantly...
by Gregory J Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
In a culture increasingly focused on visual media, students have learned not only to embrace multimedia presentations in the classroom, but to expect them. Such expectations are perhaps more prevalent in a field as dynamic and cross-disciplinary as religious studies, but the practice nevertheless...
by Edward Frederic Benson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Mr Keeling had expected an edifying half-hour when Dr Inglis gave out as his text, ‘There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth,’ and as the discourse proceeded, he felt that his anticipations were amply justified. Based on this unshakable foundation, and buttressed by other stalwart pronouncements,...
The Cognitive Science of Religion
A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
The Cognitive Science of Religion introduces students to key empirical studies conducted over the past 25 years in this new and rapidly expanding field. In these studies, cognitive scientists of religion have applied the theories, findings and research tools of the cognitive sciences to understanding...
Interreligious Perspectives on Mind, Genes and the Self
Emerging Technologies and Human Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Attitudes towards science, medicine and the body are all profoundly shaped by people’s worldviews. When discussing issues of bioethics, religion often plays a major role. In this volume, the role of genetic manipulation and neurotechnology in shaping human identity is examined from multiple religious...
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
A History of Soviet Atheism
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly...
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion
An Introduction to Theories and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This is the first book to provide an introduction to contemporary cultural approaches to the study of religion. This book makes sophisticated ideas accessible at an introductory level, and examines the analytic tools of scholars in religious studies, as well as in related disciplines that have shaped...
La philosophie de la religion
« Que sais-je ? » n° 3839
Language: French
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Pourquoi vit-on ? La philosophie jaillit de cette énigme, sans ignorer que la religion cherche à y répondre. La tâche d’une philosophie de la religion est de méditer le sens de cette réponse et la place qu’elle peut tenir dans l’existence humaine, à la fois individuelle et collective.
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