Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
Alternative Sociologies of Religion
Through Non-Western Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Uncovers what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian, Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian one
Sociology has long used Western Christianity as a model for all religious life. As a result, the field has tended to highlight aspects of...
The Presence of the Infinite
The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Presence of the Infinite sheds new light on the important subject of spiritual experience. Using the emerging insights of evolutionary spirituality, integral philosopher Steve McIntosh enlarges readers’ capacity to have spiritual experience more abundantly and use it more effectively to improve...
Truth to the 1St Power
A Story of Faith,Despair and Lasting Hope
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
The theories and conclusions made within the pages of this book are meant to open the minds of the religious and non religious readers to the idea that faith that is declared a truth can and must be scrutinized in order to confirm and also remove doubt has to how one can perceive the world and appreciate...
by Michael York
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
The decline of institutionalized religion in the increasingly secularized West has been offset by the contemporary spiritual development understood in the form of emerging New Age movements. This reference presents the potpourri of spiritual and psycho-physical therapeutic practices associated with...
God in the Details
American Religion in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Exploring the blurred boundary between religion and pop culture, God in the Details offers a provocative look at the breadth and persistence of religious themes in the American consciousness. This new edition reflects the explosion of online activity since the first edition, including chapters on...
Trance Formation
The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements
Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca,...
The Spirit of Dialogue
Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
We tend to approach conflict from the perspective of competing interests. A farmer's interest lies in preserving water for crops, while an environmentalist's interest is in using that same water for instream habitats. It's hard to see how these interests intersect. But what if there was a differway...
The Ontology of Gods
An Account of Enchantment, Disenchantment, and Re-Enchantment
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion. Jibu Mathew George offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the source and dynamics of religious ideation upon which belief and faith are based,...
My Spirit Is Not Religious
A Guide To Living Your Authentic Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
A holistic spiritual practitioner shares tips on how to evolve from traditional religious teachings to a spirituality that reflects your true beliefs.
Millions of people today experience guilt, shame, anger, anxiety, depression, or similarly disempowering emotions as a result of their indoctrination...
Black Gods of the Asphalt
Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem." Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory...
by Solomon Katz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2015
Awards:2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Winner, Self Help2015 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards: Silver Winner, Self Help2014 Nautilus Book Awards: Silver Winner, Religion/Spirituality - Eastern2014 National Indie Excellence Book Awards: Winner, Self Help - SpiritualThis book is required...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Second edition is an indispensable guide and reference source to the major themes, movements, debates and topics in philosophy of religion. Considerably expanded for the second edition, over seventy entries from a team of renowned international contributors...
Political and Spiritual
Essays on Religion, Environment, Disability, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Roger S. Gottlieb is internationally known for his groundbreaking studies of religious environmentalism, passionate account of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis, and enlightening vision of the role of religion in a democratic society. Political and Spiritual brings together for the first...