Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Montesquieu
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2013
De l’esprit des lois - XXIV Montesquieu, philosophe français (1689-1755)
Ce livre numérique présente «De l’esprit des lois - XXIV», de Montesquieu, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder...
by Anthony Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
This book is about the origin of religion. I take it for granted that an explanation should be based on evolution, but this does not, in itself, imply that religion is necessarily false. All our thought processes, including our rationality, have after all been shaped by evolution, so religion is no...
Spirituality of Later Life
On Humor and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Humor expresses a certain heroic defiance in the face of life’s most challenging experience and provides a valuable resource for the celebration of life and the divine comedy of faith, hope, and love.-From the book chapter by Melvin A. Kimble, PhD
Studies have shown that as many people...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This book collects multiple disciplinary voices which explore current research and perspectives to discuss how spirituality is understood, interpreted and applied in a range of contexts. It addresses spirituality in combination with such topics as Christian mysticism, childhood and adolescent education,...
Oh How Great The Delusion
Urgent Messages To A World Deluded By Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
This book pulls the pants down on religion. “Oh How Great the Delusion” is one of those books that has the potential to change the world. To help liberate the people from the shackles and chains of religion by pointing out in a most clear, irrefutable way, the nonsense religious believers devote...
Religion in Consumer Society
Brands, Consumers and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Presenting an overview of an emerging field in the study of contemporary religion, this book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, explores issues of religion, neoliberalism and consumer society. Claiming that we have entered a new phase that implies more than the recasting...
Is God Back?
Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Is God Back? Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion examines the shifting boundary between religion and the public sphere in Europe and the Middle East. Asking what the 'new visibility of religion' means and challenging simplistic notions of living in a 'post-secular' age, the chapters explore...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
The present collection of writings on postcolonial philosophy of religion takes its origins from a Philosophy of Religion session during the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion held in New Orleans. Three presentations, by Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine, and Bhibuti Yadav,...
The Power of Spirituality in Therapy
Integrating Spiritual and Religious Beliefs in Mental Health Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Factor your clients' religious beliefs into their therapy!
A recent Gallup poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans surveyed said they would prefer to receive counseling from a therapist who is religious. The Power of Spirituality in Therapy: Integrating Spiritual and Religious Beliefs...
by James Freeman Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
One of the best woork in comparative theology giving you great accounts of ten great religions. Anybody interested in learning about religions must start with this classic work. Here is the Table of Contents of the book from where you can guess what's inside:
Chapter I. Introduction.—Ethnic...
All Religion Is Inter-Religion
Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
All Religion Is Inter-Religion analyses the ways inter-religious relations have contributed both historically and philosophically to the constructions of the category of “religion” as a distinct subject of study.
Regarded as contemporary classics, Steven M. Wasserstrom's Religion after...
Second Wave Spirituality
Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In his work as a spiritual teacher interacting with seekers and activists from around the world, Chris Saade has witnessed a remarkable recent phenomenon: an emerging wave of spirituality that is socially and globally engaged in the pursuit of justice, earth care, and solidarity. Saade calls this...
The Attraction of Religion
A New Evolutionary Psychology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Religion is an evolutionary puzzle. It involves beliefs in counterfactual worlds and engagement in costly rituals. Yet religion is widespread across all human cultures and eras. This begs the question, why are so many people attracted to religion?
In The Attraction of Religion, essays by leading...
Creativity and Spirituality
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The volume was developed to address conceptual, relational and formational questions around the phenomena of creativity and spirituality from a multidisciplinary perspective. We acknowledge the complexity of each phenomenon, and the need for multiple perspectives, in a number of ways. First, different...