Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
American Gospel
God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how the Founding Fathers viewed faith—and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice.
At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American Gospel draws on the...
Fields of Blood
Religion and the History of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence.
For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general...
Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy
How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This book by David Webster is a counter-blast against the culturally accepted norm that spirituality is a vital and important factor in human life. Rejecting the idea of human wellbeing as predicated on the spiritual, the book seeks to identify the toxic impact of spiritual discourses on our lives. Spirituality...
On Roman Religion
Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion...
Red State Religion
Faith and Politics in America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly...
by Frank Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American...
by John Corrigan, Winthrop Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This comprehensive narrative account of religion in America from the sixteenth century through the present depicts the religious life of the American people within the context of American society. It addresses topics ranging from the European origins of American religious thought and the diversity...
When Atheism Becomes Religion
America's New Fundamentalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects.
Chris...
A Spirituality Named Compassion
Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
• Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence
• A road map to fulfillment for the coming century
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox, the popular and controversial...
Food, Sex and Strangers
Understanding Religion as Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Religion is more than a matter of worshipping a deity or spirit. For many people, religion pervades every part of their lives and is not separated off into some purely private and personal realm. Religion is integral to many people's relationship with the wider world, an aspect of their dwelling among...
Putting God Second
How to Save Religion from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Why have the monotheistic religions failed to produce societies that live up to their ethical ideals? A prominent rabbi answers this question by looking at his own faith and offering a way for religion to heal itself.
In Putting God Second, Rabbi Donniel Hartman tackles one of modern life’s...
The Frankfurt School on Religion
Key Writings by the Major Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
In "The Frankfurt School on Religion," Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than...
by Léon Tolstoï, Charles Salomon.
Language: French
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait:
Vous me demandez ce que j’entends par le terme religion et vous voudriez savoir si je considère...
Natural Religion
The Ultimate Religion of Mankind
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Driven by the dissatisfaction and turmoil in religion at the time this book was originally published in 1923, the author sets out a belief that all people have an inborn religion and investigates what the future of this religion might be as it changes from age to age. In the short chapters here the...