Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
Art as Theology
From the Postmodern to the Medieval
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Religion and spirituality are key aspects of the contemporary art scene. Following Ronald Barthes' 'death of the author' - which argued for the dissociation of work from creator - works of art have withdrawn as independent objects, giving way to a growing religious awareness or practice. 'Art and...
Allow Your Light to Fill the Darkness
A Primer to Living the Light Within Us According to the Tao
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
How do we recognize error in our thinking? How can we enjoy the spiritual benefits of practicing our religion while not condemning the religion of others? These questions are addressed in the eighty-one commentaries included in this book. These commentaries refer to, but are independent of, the illuminating...
Intensities
Philosophy, Religion and the Affirmation of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Is the affirmation or intensification of life a value in itself? Can life itself be thought? This book breaks new ground in religious and philosophical thinking on the concept of life. It captures a moment in which such thinking is regaining its force and attraction for scholars, and the relevance...
How to Believe in God
Whether You Believe in Religion or Not
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
In How to Believe in God, Clark Strand, an accomplished master of both Eastern and Western mystical practices, takes on the most troublesome and provocative passages from Judeo-Christian scripture, transforming the Bible into a manual of spiritual liberation for the twenty-first-century seeker. Offering...
Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The twentieth century saw religion challenged by the rise of science and secularism, a confrontation which resulted in an astonishingly diverse range of philosophical views about religion and religious belief. Many of the major philosophers of the twentieth century - James, Bergson, Russell, Wittgenstein,...
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Religion
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The nineteenth century was a turbulent period in the history of the philosophical scrutiny of religion. Major scholars - such as Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Newman, Caird and Royce - sought to construct systematic responses to the Enlightenment critiques of religion carried out by Spinoza and Hume....
Reflections on Afterlife
Keeping the Faith / Rethinking the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Humanity has always wished for something beyond this lifesomething greater and uplifting beyond mere mortal existence.
This feeling of longing is often seen as a religiously inspired conviction, and many people see their place in the afterlife as something divinely ordained.
John J....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Memory is not a mere repository for past events. This was Henri Bergson's fundamental claim about consciousness. In distinguishing our psychic constitution by its sense of the past, Bergson differentiates our perception of time from a process in which one instant merely replaces another. While Bergson...
Shamanism in Siberia
Russian Records of Indigenous Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book takes you to the "classical academy of shamanism", Siberian tribal spirituality that gave birth to the expression "shamanism." For the first time, in this volume Znamenski has rendered in readable English more than one hundred books and articles that describe all aspects...
by Abbot George Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
Several thousand years ago in north-central India, two people sat in a chariot in the midpoint of a great battlefield. One of them, the yogi Arjuna, knew that it would be not be long before the conflict would begin. So he asked Krishna, the Master of Yoga (Yogeshwara), what should be his attitude...
by E. Rae Harcum
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This book combats the anti-religious sentiment of some psychologists. It argues that Christians do not have to give up their religious faith to keep the contributions of science. A science compatible with religion accepts that human beings have freedom of will to select behaviors and that all methods...
My Father and Your Father
A Personal Relationship with God
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2003
This book is an attempt to relate the wonderful biblical truths about the possibility of having a living, personal relationship with God. This truth comes down through the entire history of the Christian faith, as well as in the Bible. Yet there is very little teaching or promotion of this truth in...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Modern Hinduism in Text and Context brings together textual and contextual approaches toprovide a holistic understanding of modern Hinduism. It examines new sources - including regional Saiva texts, Odissi dance and biographies of Nationalists - and discusses topics such as yoga, dance, visual art...
by Russell Sandberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Issues concerning religion in the public sphere are rarely far from the headlines. As a result, scholars have paid increasing attention to religion. These scholars, however, have generally stayed within the confines of their own respective disciplines. To date there has been little contact between...