Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
The Free Exercise of Religion in America
Its Original Constitutional Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” As the book shows, both clauses were intended to protect the free exercise of religion...
Democratic Religion from Locke to Obama
Faith and the Civic Life of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faith—even as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy. How these seemingly contradictory impulses can coexist—and whether this...
Seduction of Religion
An Illuminating and Provocative Guide to the Religions of the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The Seduction of Religion offers an illuminating and provocative guide to the religions of the world, focusing on the irrationality of religious beliefs. The point of this book is not to preach atheism so much as it is to encourage its readers to reflect more carefully on why they believe what they...
The Enigmatic Expanse
Existence, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Consider the famous question: "What came first - The chicken or the egg?"
Continuing further we ask: "What came first - The body or the soul? The atoms or the quarks? Energy or matter?"
"Did the god create us or, did we create him?"
When the universe was to be created, did God hold the...
Religion and Psychology
Mapping the Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Religion and Psychology is a thorough and incisive survey of the current relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field. This is an essential resource for students and researchers in the area of psychology of religion. Issues addressed are:
* The Psychology-Theology...
Fruitful Embraces
Sexuality, Love, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Sexuality and justice often seem odd bedfellows. Sexual embraces of intimacy and passion thrive in our private lives, while justice safeguards the laws and duties that govern the public realm. Yet intuitively, we sense there are deeper connections. Both sexuality and justice support the holistic ideal...
Spiritual Building Blocks
Using Our Head, Heart, & Hands to Love God, Our Self, & Neighbors
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Spiritual Building Blocks takes the greatest commandment and uses it as the cornerstone in building a spiritual foundation to help notice Gods presence in our everyday lives. Part 1 begins by unpacking the greatest commandment into six essential parts: God, the self, our neighbor, our head, our heart,...
Religion and Media in China
Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of individuals and greater shifts within Chinese society in an increasingly media-saturated environment. With case studies focusing on Mainland...
by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Is religion to blame for deadly conflicts? Should religious behaviour be credited more often for acts of charity and altruism? In what ways are religious and ‘spiritual’ ideas, practices and identities surviving and changing as religion loses its political power in those parts of the world which...
Beyond Jesus
My Spiritual Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
• The fastest-growing—and at 25% of the population, second-largest— religious group in the US is comprised of those who identify themselves as having no religious affiliation (aka “Nones”). A recent Pew study has found that “many of the country’s 46 million unaffiliated adults are religious...
Le dieu cosmique
À la recherche du dieu d'Einstein
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Ce livre est un prolongement de la série radiophonique À la recherche du Dieu d’Einstein, animée par Jacques Languirand et diffusée sur la Première chaîne de Radio-Canada en 2005 et 2006. Les auteurs cherchent à préciser en quoi consiste ce sentiment religieux dont parlait Einstein et...
by Seshagiri Dr. Rao Regulagadda
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Ambedkars philosophical ideas on Religion and Morality would pave the way for practical responses on different ideology in the Indian society. He clearly understood that how deep the religion plays a key role in Indian society. At the same time he explains how effectively religion has changed its...
by Arie Chark
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Leonard Cohen's strong spirituality was probably spiritually Jewish rather than Jewishly spiritual. Is that a useful comparison? I'm not certain, but I don't think so. Spirit is also wind in Hebrew, and the wind blows when and where it must to do what it must. Six Leonard Cohen songs...
Sacred Languages of the World
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
A fascinating comparative account of sacred languages and their role in and beyond religion —written for a broad, interdisciplinary audience
Sacred languages have been used for foundational texts, liturgy, and ritual for millennia, and many have remained virtually unchanged through the centuries....