Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of original articles, written by leading contemporary European and American philosophers of religion, is presented in celebration of the publication of the fiftieth volume of the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
Following the Editor's Introduction, John Macquarrie,...
Wozu Religion?
Sinnfindung in Zeiten der Gier nach Macht und Geld
Language: German
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Wäre es nicht zum Wohle der Gesellschaft besser, Menschen kämen ohne Religion aus? Im Gespräch mit dem Publizisten Jürgen Hoeren ist Eugen Drewermann überzeugt: Der gegenwärtig im Namen der Religion geführte »Krieg der Kulturen« darf nicht weitergehen. Aufgabe der Religion ist, zu integrieren,...
Gods and Arms
On Religion and Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war--both in a destructive and constructive way. Religion can justify and mobilize violence--even terrorism or guerilla wars--just like political ideology. But how is such a link between religion and...
Why God Is Killing Religion
How the Church Is Damaging the Spiritual Vision
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Charles Morgan, a confirmed atheist, argues that the Christian church does in fact have a vital message and could play a major role in modern society. However it insists of making itself inaccessible to modern people with its layers of mumbo jumbo and strange and unlikely beliefs. In this book he...
The Mystery and the World
Passion for God in Times of Unbelief
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
During the past century, an enormous effervescence of events changed the sociopolitical configuration of the world. The interpretation of these facts helped further deepen the crisis in which modern thought already found itself--and it generated the uncertain and unstable environment in which we live...
The Thirteenth Apostle
My Journey out of the Religious Maze
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
There are two things good and that which must become good. Humanity does not understand this. Reality and pseudoreality. There is God, and there is man. If a man seeks truth, he must be eligible for the reception of truth. Mankind does not know this. Consequently, believing in the existence of truth,...
The Evolving God
Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In focusing on the story of Darwin's religious doubts, scholars too often overlook Darwin's positive contribution to the study of religion.
J. David Pleins traces Darwin's journey in five steps. He begins with Darwin's global voyage, where his encounter with religious and cultural diversity...
by Michael Morais Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Religion weakens. Few are strong enough to minimize religion.
My mind plays a rock soul tune from my youth, while I admit I should minimize religious terms: 'Oh my lord to be near you, to be free, oh lord.'
If prayers stop you thinking are you easier to manipulate, and have your conscience suppressed.
This...
by Constantin Portelli
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Modern world needs a moral and spiritual renaissance to surpass the actual crisis. The historic religions have not the capacity to perform this objective, because rested behind with explanations and entered in contradiction with science and modern knowledge. Christian religion occupies a special position....
by Ruth C. Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Many of us have become disillusioned about religion and what is promoted and what is practiced. Reaction ranges from boredom, to one group accusing or blaming another, to violence within a religious group. If not religion, then atheism, agnosticism, Gnosticism, just be reasonable, or spiritual or...
Meta-Religion
Religion and Power in World History
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W. Laine treats religion and politics as halves of the same whole, tracing their...
Melchizedek & the Temple
The Promise of the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
The current world confusion and condition of human affairs is a natural phase within an evolutionary process that will ultimately lead to the unification of the human race into a single social order. This processhas passed throughstageswe should consider as being analogous tothose of infancy and childhood,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Lively debates on controversial and compelling questions in the philosophy of religion — an updated edition of the bestselling title
Building upon the reputation of the first edition, the extensively revised second edition of Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion features fifteen...
Religion? of God or Man?
Does God Really Require Religiosity?
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019
Is there evidence for the existence of God, defined as the transcendent entity responsible for all material existence? The author believes that there is, albeit such evidence is not necessarily proof for everyone. In this two-part study, Wayne Talbot firstly presents the evidence that has convinced...