Religion category: 228605 books
Religion and Spirituality in America
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
The United States has more religious groups than any other country in the world. Religion and Spirituality in America: The Ultimate Teen Guide provides an introduction to some of the diverse religious practices, traditions, and expressions in the United States and focuses on how teenagers view their...
by Michigan State University School of Journalism, Jacob Bacall, Weam Namou
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions people have about Chaldean Americans. It has answers about identity, origins in places including Mesopotamia, Babylon and Iraq, language, religion, families, customs, dating and marriage, education and work. It covers contemporary...
The Best Guide to Eastern Philosophy and Religion
Easily Accessible Information for a Richer, Fuller Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Best Guide to Eastern Philosophy & Religion provides a thorough discussion of the most widely practiced belief systems of the East. Author Diane Morgan understands how to direct the materialistic, linear way of Western thinking toward a comprehension of the cyclical, metaphysical essence of...
God Is Not Great
How Religion Poisons Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Whether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful manifesto will engage you with its provocative ideas.
With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens documents...
More Jesus, Less Religion
Moving from Rules to Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
One decade ago, best-selling authors Stephen Arterburn and Jack Felton exposed the dangers of what they called "toxic faith," helping countless believers to understand and overcome their religious misconceptions.
Now, drawing upon an additional ten years of observation and experience,...
Religious Literacy
What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The United States is one of the most religious places on earth, but it is also a nation of shocking religious illiteracy.
Only 10 percent of American teenagers can name all five major world religions and 15 percent cannot name any.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible holds the...
Religion and Sports
An Introduction and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Like religion, playing and watching sports is a deeply meaningful, celebratory ritual enjoyed by millions across the world. The first scholarly work designed for use in both religion and sports courses, this collection develops and then applies a theoretically grounded approach to studying sports...
by Thomas Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This study argues that this previously banned author devoted his entire life to articulating a religion of self-liberation in his autobiographical books, examining his life and work within the context of fringe religious movements that were linked with the avant-garde in New York City and Paris at...
by David Dvorkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Worldwide, the number of people who call themselves Jews is about 14 million.
They may all call themselves Jews, but what they mean by that name varies widely. These self−described Jews range from the most Orthodox, who have submitted themselves entirely to the imagined dictates of an imaginary...
Inside Scientology
The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
“A masterful piece of reporting . . . Reitman tells a spellbinding story of a larger-than-life personality whose quirks, ticks and charisma shaped America’s newest homegrown religious movement.” — Washington Post
Scientology is known for its celebrity believers and its team of “volunteer...
by Michael I. Meyerson
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The debate over the framers’ concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and others. Legal...
by Luke E. Harlow
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery. The central...
The Triumph of Christianity
How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.
How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official...
Forty Days with the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion
A Devotional Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion of the Church of England.
Are they a dusty relic of the sixteenth century, with little to say to Anglican Christians in this brave new world of the twenty-first century? Or do they form a statement that is ideally suited to strengthen and unify them in their...