Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Robert N. McCauley, E. Thomas Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty years ago, the cognitive science of religion has raised questions about the philosophical foundations and implications of such a scientific approach....
Religion and Social Transformations
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This title was first published in 2002: Religion and Social Transformations examines the reciprocal relationship between religion, modernity and social change. The book focuses on the world's three major missionary religions - Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
It explores how these three traditions...
Enjoying Religion
Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
“Enjoying religion” seems to be a contradiction because religion is generally perceived as a serious or even suppressive phenomenon. This volume is the first to study the increase of enjoying religion systematically by presenting eleven new case studies, occurring on four continents. The volume...
Jesuit Contribution to Science
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
This book presents a comprehensive history of the many contributions the Jesuits made to science from their founding to the present. It also links the Jesuits dedication to science with their specific spirituality which tries to find God in all things. The book begins with Christopher Clavius, professor...
Creating Eartheaven in Your Life Profound Transformation of Your Soul
Unlocking Humanity's Evolutionary Life Potential
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2014
Creating Eartheaven in Your Life is unique and it is innate in all human beings. Humanitys quest for a wholesome peaceful life goes unabated. Our search for our better self that identifies with the reality of the world we live in all too often filled with grief and stress is juxtaposed with faith...
What's the Point?
A Guide to Life and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
This is a book about the meaning of life and achieving lasting happiness. Incorporating religion, spirituality and science, this is an essential read for those who want to find that little bit extra into an ordinary life.
By reading this book you will find the signs whichpoint towards permanent...
Can Science Explain Religion?
The Cognitive Science Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The "New Atheist" movement of recent years has put the science-versus-religion controversy back on the popular cultural agenda. Anti-religious polemicists are convinced that the application of the new sciences of the mind to religious belief gives them the final weapons in their battle against irrationality...
Unearthing My Religion
Real Talk about Real Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
• A brief, engaging read with ample spiritual applications • Each chapter includes a parable, real-life stories, and suggested life practice • Perfect for newcomers or for leaders engaging non-Christian communities • Study questions included Religious talk quickly degenerates into insider...
Disability Advocacy Among Religious Organizations
Histories and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Gain insight into the importance of advocacy for the disabled within various religious and secular organizations
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Romans 13:9) Through the years, religious organizations have worked to fulfill this biblical mandate. Disability Advocacy Among Religious...
by Rebecca L. Norrington
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
RealitySpirituality: The Truth About Happiness is not a religion, but a guide that will assist you to live connected to the most powerful Energy Source. It teaches that we do not have control over what happens to us, but we do have control over our personal vibration, perspectives, responses, behaviors,...
Sex and Religion
Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Sex and religion are inevitably and intricately linked. There are few realms of human experience other than sex in which religion has greater reach and influence. The role of religion, of any faith, to prohibit, regulate, condemn, and reward, is unavoidably prominent in questions of sex—namely...
by Van Lal Thuam Lian
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: Distinction, , course: MA, language: English, abstract: Religion is expected by the secularists to decline slowly and be privatised and so not to have any influence on the public sphere. Also after the 9/11 attack the...
Religion and Revolution in Mexico's North
Even Unto Death . . . Tengamos Fe
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
Religion and revolution reverberated through northern Mexico like the thunder and lightning of its wild and fierce storms. Religion and Revolution in Mexico?s North reveals the motivation behind the madness and the role religion played in the very struggle for the soul of Mexico. During the revolution,...
The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo
Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance. It offers a reading of Aurobindo’s key texts by bringing them into conversation with religious studies and the hermeneutical...