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Violence in Southern Sport and Culture
Sacred Battles on the Gridiron
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book discusses violence and its connection with religion, sport and popular culture. It highlights the religious dimensions of violence and the role of violence in the religion and culture of the American South. Extending into popular culture, it then makes the case that sport—particularly...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the meaning of secularism. An under-examined issue is how religion figures in the decisions, actions and experiences...
At the Temple Gates
The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
In his sixth satire, Juvenal speculates about how Roman wives busy themselves while their husbands are away, namely, by entertaining a revolving door of exotic visitors who include a eunuch of the eastern goddess Bellona, an impersonator of Egyptian Anubis, a Judean priestess, and Chaldean astrologers....
by Ben Fallaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
The religion question—the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution—profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's...
Mt. Fuji - religion and tourism
religion and tourism
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, Muhlenberg College, course: Religions of Japan, language: English, abstract: Japan's national symbol and most holy sight, Mount Fuji, has always been attractive to pilgrims. Over the years the motivation for a pilgrimage...
John Henry Newman on the Nature of the Mind
Reason in Religion, Science, and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
From his vantage point in the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman offers much needed clarity to the twenty-first century, an age characterized by significant tension between science and religion and by a marginalization of the humanities. As a philosopher, theologian, priest, and man of Letters,...
Mystical Science and Practical Religion
Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh Discourse on Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Mystical Science and Practical Religion examines the religious discourse employed by Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh applied science professionals and students, mainly engineers and Information Technology (IT) workers. Although applied scientists, especially immigrants to the United States, have shown high...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Religion can play a vital role in the way people relate to each other, particularly with interpersonal dynamics within a family. The role of a couple or family’s religion(s) in the counseling room is no less important. This book provides practitioners with an overview of the principles of the major...
The Navel of the Demoness
Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
This groundbreaking study focuses on a village called Te in a "Tibetanized" region of northern Nepal. While Te's people are nominally Buddhist, and engage the services of resident Tibetan Tantric priests for a range of rituals, they are also exponents of a local religion that involves blood sacrifices...
by Brigham Henry Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
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Three quarters of a century have passed away since Joseph Smith first declared that he had received a revelation from God. From that revelation and others that followed there has sprung into existence what men call a new religion—"Mormonism;" and a new church, the institution...
Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe
Health and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Tabona Shoko contends that religion and healing are intricately intertwined in African religions. This book on the religion of the Karanga people of Zimbabwe sheds light on important methodological issues relevant to research in the study of African religions. Analysing the traditional Karanga views...
The Transformation of American Religion
The Story of a Late-Twentieth-Century Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2001
As recently as a few decades ago, most people would have described America as a predominantly Protestant nation. Today, we are home to a colorful mix of religious faiths and practices, from a resurgent Catholic Church and a rapidly growing Islam to all forms of Buddhism and many other non-Christian...
by Ismatu Ropi
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This book analyses the relation between state and religion in Indonesia, considering both the philosophical underpinning of government intervention on religious life but also cases and regulations related to religious affairs in Indonesia. Examining state regulation of religious affairs, it focuses...
The Refugee Crisis and Religion
Secularism, Security and Hospitality in Question
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The current refugee crisis sweeping Europe, and much of the world, closely intersects with largely neglected questions of religion. Moving beyond discussions of religious differences, what can we learn about the interaction between religion and migration? Do faith-based organisations play a role within...