Religion category: 228605 books
Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions
Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Particular attention is given to the place of religion in the Haitian Revolution, as...
Summary & Analysis of Why Religion
A Personal Story | A Guide to the Book by Elaine Pagels
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
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Why Religion?, is a deeply personal and powerful account of renowned scholar Elaine Pagels’s journey...
by Sophie Duhnkrack
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2009
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject Theology - Comparative Religion Studies, grade: 96, Ben Gurion University, course: Formation of Islam, language: English, abstract: Professor Heinz Halm's work Shi'a Islam: From Religion to Revolution deals with the origins and developments of Shi'ism...
Race, Religion, and the Pulpit
Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
During the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the cities of the Northeast, Midwest, and West, the local black church was essential in the making and reshaping of urban areas. In Detroit, there was one church and one minister in particular that demonstrated this power of the pulpit—Second...
Israeli Judaism
The Sociology of Religion in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This is an unusual and extremely timely collective effort. It appears at a moment in which Israelis not only must confront their Arab neighbors, but must deal with one another as Jews possessing radically different views on the present and future of the Jewish tradition. With this seventh volume of...
Religion in the Composition Classroom
A Pragmatic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Students in first-year composition courses across the country discuss and write about touchy subjects like race, class, gender and religion. This book focuses on the latter, offering a pragmatic way of working with religious belief as a subject of study in the secular setting of the university classroom....
The Church of Scientology
A History of a New Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubbard's space-age mysticism is a moneymaking scam and sinister brainwashing cult. But to its adherents, it is humanity's brightest hope. Few religious movements have been...
The God Dilemma
To Believe or Not to Believe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Todays modern technology and scientific knowledge contradicts all religious dogma created in ancient times by ignorant and superstitious people who had just learned to write. Modern science can test the strength of ones faith and it can make him a skeptic, causing him to discard the religious beliefs...
Gods of Our Religion
Christianity in America: an Inside Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Gods of Our Religion is a very deliberate conversation offering a for real look at the many images of God within Americas Christian churches.
Whether you consider yourself a Christian, atheist, agnostic, Jew, Muslim, or other religious designations, Gods of Our Religion seeks to whet your appetite...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and contemporary examples to show how people of African...
The Religion of Technology
The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Arguing against the widely held belief that technology and religion are at war with each other, David F. Noble's groundbreaking book reveals the religious roots and spirit of Western technology.
It links the technological enthusiasms of the present day with the ancient and enduring Christian...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The intersection of law and religion is a growing area of study for academics working in both subject areas. This book draws together research on several collisions between the two arenas, including a study of religious clauses in the US constitution and the interplay between religion and law in Canada,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This introductory text provides students with a 'toolbox' of approaches for analyzing religion and popular culture. It encourages readers to think critically about the ways in which popular cultural practices and products, especially those considered as forms of entertainment, are laden with religious...