Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Jerrye Woods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Writing this book has been a joy. It is my gift to Christians living in these last days and to every individual who has been disappointed by organized religion yet has honest, heartfelt questions regarding God and his own spirituality. It’s been said that Satan’s greatest achievement is convincing...
Making Religion Safe for Democracy
Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Does the toleration of liberal democratic society mean that religious faiths are left substantively intact, so long as they respect the rights of others? Or do liberal principles presuppose a deeper transformation of religion? Does life in democratic society itself transform religion? In Making Religion...
Edenic Eve Versus Clonaid Eve
An Ethical Dimension of Human Cloning
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Human Cloning, by virtue of its achievement in the field of medico-science, has sparked a big controversy across the globe. In the contemporary world, being a global village, no one can claim to be untouched by it. It wont take much time to succeed in its attempt to creep into human society as the...
by Brian Rees
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Over the course of five deployments to the Middle East since 9/11, Colonel (retired) Brian Rees documented his daily life at Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Kandahar, Camp Bucca and elsewhere, by writing emails to his friends and family:…they fired their warning shots, disabling (engine block) shots,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Across diverse countries and contexts in Africa, religion has direct implications for human security. While some individuals and groups seek to manipulate and control through the deployment of religion, religious belief is also a common facet of those working towards peace and reconciliation. Despite...
Experimental Spirituality
Going Beyond Belief to Discover the Hidden Foundations of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
We live in an era when traditional religious approaches to spirituality are increasingly losing relevance. Equally, the sciences, which have very successfully helped us understand physical reality, are not equipped to fathom the subtleties of deep inner experience. Each approach offers useful insights,...
by Nathan James, Victor Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2003
Philosophy or Pornography?
Two radical thinkers tackle the fundamental problems of passion between men and its relationship to spirituality. In a vibrant, erudite, and candid correspondence that spans the 1990s, these two old friends from Oxford explore how the ancient mysticism of Tantra can work...
Standing in the Midst of Grace
Essays on Living in Christ Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
RELIGION | SPIRITUALITY
“Robert Thiefels provides a map to guide our steps. Standing in the Midst of Grace is a refreshing and challenging study — one that I warmly recommend.”
WILFRID J. HARRINGTON, O.P. - HOLD ON TO HOPE: THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD
“Robert Thiefels combines...
Formatting Religion
Across Politics, Education, Media, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society. This volume examines and engages with larger debates around religion and proposes a new approach that moves beyond the usual binaries to analyse its role in our societies...
See Me Naked
Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
“A fascinating, troubling, and finally heartening book that subtly shows ways that Christians might reconcile their bodies with their devotion to God. Highly recommended for individual Christians but also for pastors and church groups.”—Library Journal, starred review
Stories of sexual...
Biblical Foundations of Spirituality
Touching a Finger to the Flame
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Biblical Foundations of Spirituality invites readers to “touch a finger to the flame” of the Bible by offering guidance on what, how, and why to read Scripture as a source of spiritual nourishment. The second edition builds on Barbara Bowe’s acclaimed book with two new chapters by Laurie Brink...
Where Has God Gone?
Religion—The Most Powerful Instrument for Growth or Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
GodGod is dead, declared Friedrich Nietzsche. Thank God! Who needs that God anyway? We now have the other gods weve created to fit our deep desires and make us feel that it is WE who are in charge, and not anyone else. We thought that these human-made gods were not only more convenient, more suitable,...
Église, culture et société
Essais sur Réforme et Contre-Réforme : 1517-1620
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Oui, l’Université française campe sur une île où règnent de bien étranges coutumes. Les programmes changeants dé nos concours de recrutement de l’enseignement public plongent les universitaires des pays voisins dans la perplexité. Ils font partie de nos traditions. Il est facile de les...
Human Self
In the Light of Physics and Quran
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Unlike most theories of the human self that are generally based on conjecture, this book describes a new scientific theory of the human self and its states of consciousness. This theory is formulated using the revealed knowledge found in the Holy Scriptures along with the principles of physics. In...