Religion category: 228605 books
Religious Pluralism and the City
Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around this topic – from "holy city"...
by William Edward Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Author's Introduction:
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together....
Blood That Cries Out From the Earth
The Psychology of Religious Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world. What causes a person to kill innocent strangers in the name of religion? As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion, James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to address this increasingly urgent question. Research...
100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans
Clear, essential facts about the culture, customs, language, religion, origins and politics of the millions of Arab Americans living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“One Hundred Questions and Answers About Arab Americans” is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence.
This guide has sections culture, language, religions, social norms, politics, history, politics, families and food.
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by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Collection Of African Religion Volume 1
This is an excellent exploration and analysis of African Religious thoughts and practices. The author's expositions are detailed, especially when speaking about the usually more obscure African societies. What's extremely interesting is the logic behind...
When Religion Becomes Evil
Five Warning Signs
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, leading religion and Middle East expert Charles Kimball shows how all religious traditions are susceptible to these basic corruptions and why only authentic faith can prevent such evil.
The Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion
Absolute...
Tantric Revisionings
New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Tantric Revisionings presents stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Buddhist religion, particularly their Tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern Western societies. Geoffrey Samuel adopts an historically and textually informed anthropological approach, seeking to locate and understand religion...
Slave Religion
The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years,...
by Darussalam Publishers, Majes S. Al Rassi
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Each person is born into a religious environment that is not of his or her own choice; a child is raised in the religion or ideology of his or her family, society or culture. Even as a newborn, he or she is assigned the religion of his family or the ideology of the state; in some countries the child's...
The Geography of Religion
Faith, Place, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
The only book of its kind, this balanced and accessibly written text explores the geographical study of religion. Roger W. Stump presents a clear and meticulous examination of the intersection of religious belief and practice with the concepts of place and space. He begins by analyzing the factors...
A Comparative Sociology of World Religions
Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are influenced...
Violence and the World's Religious Traditions
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Is religion inherently predisposed to violence? Or has religion been taken hostage by a politics of aggression? The years since the end of the Cold War have shown a noticeable shift in patterns of religious extremism, accentuating the uncomfortable, complex, and oft-misunderstood relationship between...
by Bernard Levine
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book will open the door to exciting new discoveries
about the secrets of the Jewish religion, traditions and the Jewish way of life.
You will discover
Why are Jewish women not allowed to touch or read a Bible?
What is Jesus’ surname?
Which letters of alphabet are printed upside down in the...
The Physics of God
Unifying Quantum Physics, Consciousness, M-Theory, Heaven, Neuroscience and Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Setting aside the pervasive material bias of science and lifting the obscuring fog of religious sectarianism reveals a surprisingly clear unity of science and religion. The explanations of transcendent phenomena given by saints, sages, and near-death experiencers—miracles, immortality, heaven, God,...