Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
A Complete Introduction To Hinduism
World Religion Series, #6
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
"World Religion Series: A Complete Introduction to Hinduism" is for anyone who wants to know more about this ancient religion with over a billion practicing followers across the world.
The Hindu religion is very accommodating of other religions meaning many different philosophies...
by J. Krishnamurti
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
J. Krishnamurti was renowned for the penetrating insight and immediacy of his spiritual teaching. Radical in his day for seeking truth beyond the boundaries of religion, ideology, or tradition, he declared that "Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever."...
The Mystic Heart
Discovering Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Drawing on experience as an interreligious monk Brother Wayne Teasdale reveals the power of spirituality and its practical elements. He combines a profound Christian faith with an intimate understanding of ancient religious traditions.
Religion in Public
Locke's Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion. This interpretation has become conventional wisdom: secularization is widely understood as entailing the privatization of religion, and the separation of religion from power. This book turns that conventional...
Godless
The Church of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.
Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals...
Redeeming the South
Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern culture, as the product of such interaction--the...
A History of Religion in America
From the First Settlements through the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
A History of Religion in America: From the First Settlements through the Civil War provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America from the pre-colonial era through the aftermath of the Civil War. It explores major religious groups in the United States and the following topics:
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Religion in American Politics
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nation,"...
The Relevance of Religion
How Faithful People Can Change Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Former United States senator and ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth offers a fascinating, thoughtful, and deeply personal look at the state of American politics today—and how religion can be a bridge over our bitter partisan divide.
In an era of extreme partisanship, when running...
by David Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This scarce early work is both expensive and hard to finding its first edition. It is a fascination read for any atheist or theologian, but also contains much information that is still useful and interesting today. A thorough and detailed argument in favour of atheism that is written by an industrious...
The Reason for God
Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
A New York Times bestseller people can believe in—by "a pioneer of the new urban Christians" (Christianity Today) and the "C.S. Lewis for the 21st century" (Newsweek).
Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent...
Being Catholic Now
Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
For Kerry Kennedy, who grew up in a devoutly Catholic household coping with great loss, her family’s faith was a constant source of strength and solace. As an adult, she came to question some of the attitudes and teachings of the Catholic Church while remaining an impassioned believer in its role...
The Language God Talks
On Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins THE LANGUAGE GOD TALKS, Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to...
Religion and Innovation
Antagonists or Partners?
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
It is often assumed that religion is the backward-looking servant of tradition and the status quo, utterly opposed to the new. This refrain in so much of recent polemical writing has permeated the public mind and can even be found in academic publications. But recent scholarship increasingly shows...