Religion category: 228605 books
Beyond Yahweh and Jesus
Bringing Death's Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
The first in-depth psychoanalytic study of the Old and New Testaments, Beyond Yahweh and Jesus centers on God's role in enabling humans to cope with death and the anxieties it evokes. Yahweh is seen as tending to increase rather than diminish these death anxieties, while Christ offers near-perfect...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Attempts to understand the origins of humanity have raised fundamental questions about the complex relationship between cognition and culture. Central to the debates on origins is the role of religion, religious ritual and religious experience. What came first: individual religious (ecstatic) experiences,...
Psychotherapy As Religion
The Civil Divine In America
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
***A provocative look at America on the couch.***In Psychotherapy as Religion, William Epstein sets out to debunk claims that psychotherapy provides successful clinical treatment for a wide range of personal and social problems. He argues that the practice is not a science at all but rather the civil...
Religion
Holistic Interrogations
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
A holistic interrogation of religion detailing the evolution of religious beliefs and practices from pre-historic times to the present day, from the position of holistic philosophy. This book is intended to form part of the foundation for a true informed consent, based on a holistic understanding...
Religion and Political Violence
Sacred Protest in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book uses the theory of social movements and first-hand interviews to create a new analysis of religiously motivated political violence in the modern world.
Examining the movement to restore Sharia law to a dominant place in the Egyptian government, the movement to make abortion illegal...
Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion
50 Years after The Sacred Canopy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
How and why did The Sacred Canopy by Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) become a classic? How have scholars used Berger's ideas over the past 50 years since its publication? How are these ideas relevant to the future of the sociology of religion?
Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious...
Philosophy, Art, and Religion
Understanding Faith and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
At a time when religion and science are thought to be at loggerheads, art is widely hailed as religion's natural spiritual ally. Philosophy, Art, and Religion investigates the extent to which this is true. It charts the way in which modern conceptions of 'Art' often marginalize the sacred arts, construing...
Science vs. Religion:
The Search for a Rational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Most people look to religion and science (faith and reason) for an explanation of “everything that is,” but neither the scientific nor the religious system can actually provide all the answers to life's questions. Is that really what we're looking for?The author examines both science and religion...
Science and Religion
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion. It presents an innovative approach insofar as it addresses the Eurocentrism that is still prevalent in this field....
by Rumy Hasan
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book examines how the beliefs and practices of each of the major world religions, as well as other belief systems, affect the variables that influence growth and development in the Global South. Evidence suggests that as countries develop, the influence of religion on all aspects of society declines....
Evolution, Chance, and God
Understanding the Relationship between Evolution and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Evolution, Chance, and God looks at the relationship between religion and evolution from a philosophical perspective. This relationship is fascinating, complex and often very controversial, involving myriad issues that are difficult to keep separate from each other. Evolution, Chance, and God introduces...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Mixing religion and public diplomacy can produce volatile results, but in a world in which the dissemination and influence of religious beliefs are enhanced by new communications technologies, religion is a factor in many foreign policy issues and must be addressed. Faith is such a powerful part of...
by Jeffrey M Pike
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
What is religion? Mark Twain said, 'Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.' St. Augustine evaded giving an answer at all. Perhaps for the true believer it is the relation of human beings to God or the gods or to something they feel...