Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
To Be an Agnostic
An Agnostic Approach to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
To Be an Agnostic Seeking knowledge, truth and wisdom through the philosophy of agnosticism
Chicago Todays America seems to split in two opposing parties: those who feel religion is under attack, and those who feel religion is unjustly pushing itself into secular life. While many books exist...
Faith, Reason and Common Sense:
An Exploration of the Historical and Contemporary Role of Religion in Human Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Have you ever wondered where religion is concerned, what you really believe?
In FAITH, REASON & COMMON SENSE the interdependence of religion and culture is examined with care and insight. Readers with strong religious convictions may be surprised to discover that the history of religion...
Exploring Your Life
Mindfulness Meditation and Secular Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
How to practice spirituality without religion? Neuroscience finds that spontaneous acts of mindfulness decrease stress, depression and anxiety, increasing overall well-being. But studies also show that purposeful mindfulness techniques, such as vipassana or mindfulness meditation, are even more powerful....
by Catharine Christof
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work. It corrects the lacunae in both theatre studies and religious studies by examining the...
by Jack Preston King
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
The Philosophical Problem of Religious Diversity, stated simply, is that the religions of the world contradict each other in important particulars, including, but not limited to, the existence of God, the nature of God, the number of gods, the role God or gods play in human affairs, and our destiny...
Spiritual Mestizaje
Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Gloria Anzaldúa’s narrative and theoretical innovations, particularly her concept of mestiza consciousness, have influenced critical thinking about colonialism, gender, history, language, religion, sexuality, spirituality, and subjectivity. Yet Anzaldúa’s theory of spiritual mestizaje has not...
Sacred Matters
Religion and Spirituality in Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Sacred Matters explores the multi-disciplinary literature about the role of religion in family life and provides new research and a new theory about ways various aspects of the sacred are helpful and harmful. The authors hope that their new conceptual framework will stimulate new research and encourage...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes:
Religion, spirituality and consumer culture
Media...
Religions/Globalizations
Theories and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been...
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Aids to Reflection : And the Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
If then it be our prerogative, as rational beings, and our duty as Christians, to think, as well as to act, rationally,—to see that our convictions of truth rest on the grounds of right reason; and if it be one of the clearest...
by Earle de Motte
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Subjects covered in these pages include:
Egyptian Spirituality
The Akhenaten Heresy and Its Impact on Religion and Mystical Thought
Creation Mythology of the Four Centres
The Soul and Its Journey in Egyptian Metaphysical Thought
Secrets of the Book of the Dead
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 1988
"It would be possible to argue," writes William Nicholls, "that the pivotal subject of debate among theologians for the past two hundred years has been the relationship between modernity and the Christian tradition."
What is modernity—a philosophical outlook or a set of...
My Religion: Reel or Real?
A Post-Modern Catholic’S Assessment on His Faithjourney
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
As the cradle-religion I belong to has been, at every age, probing into her managing and conserving of the Mmysterious Ttreasures entrusted to her, with the enlightenment, offered by Vatican Council II, I too longed to scrutinize my own handling of Catholic Christian Ffaith. I wanted to examine whether...
Essential Spirituality
The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
"Essential Spirituality beautifully articulates the benefits of spiritual living in the material world."-Dan Millman, author, Everyday Enlightenment and The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
"Deceptively simple. Its power is rooted not only in Dr. Walsh's formidable intellectual capacity...