Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Paul Tracey, Nelson Phillips, Michael Lounsbury
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Both history and current events attest to the continued significance of religion in society. Despite the role and importance of the institution of religion, and the profound influence that religious organizations continue to exert, it occupies a curiously marginal place in organization theory. At...
The Soul of Recovery
Uncovering the Spiritual Dimension in the Treatment of Addictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
Millions of alcoholics and addicts recover through spirituality. In The Soul of Recovery: Uncovering the Spiritual Dimension in the Treatment of Addictions, author and journalist Christopher D. Ringwald tells how and why they seek and achieve these transformations. Ranging as far back as the Washingtonian...
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Workbook, Updated Edition
Discipleship that Deeply Changes Your Relationship with God
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: You can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Though Scazzero was an experienced pastor of a growing church, his life and faith remained emotionally unhealthy. Like so many in the church, he routinely:
avoided healthy conflict in the...
by Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
As an unbeliever, I ask leave to plead that humanity has been real gainer from scepticism, and that the gradual and growing rejection of Christianity—like the rejection of the faiths which preceded it—has in fact added, and will add, to man's happiness and well being. I maintain that in physics science...
by Sir William Alexander Craigie
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The native religion of the ancient Scandinavians was in its main features only a special form of that common to all the Germanic peoples, and this again was only a particular development of primitive beliefs and practices characteristic of the whole Aryan race. It is impossible to say how far back in...
by Tim Bayne
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as 'eternal'? And should religious people want there to be good arguments for the existence of God, or is religious...
The Holy Longing
The Search for a Christian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Ronald Rolheiser makes sense of what is frequently a misunderstood word: spirituality. In posing the question "What is spirituality?" Father Rolheiser gets quickly to the heart of common difficulties with the subject, and shows through compelling anecdotes and personal examples how to channel that...
Rocks of Ages
Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
"People of good will wish to see science and religion at peace. . . . I do not see how science and religion could be unified, or even synthesized, under any common scheme of explanation or analysis; but I also do not understand why the two enterprises should experience any conflict." So states internationally...
by Craig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendieta, Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence in the contemporary public sphere and its potential contributions to critical thought, Habermas's engagement with religion has been controversial and exciting,...
Religion on the Edge
De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The thirteen essays in this volume challenge conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social...
by Theodore John Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
In The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future, Theodore John Rivers explores the changing relationship between technology and religion. Rivers draws upon his expertise in the fields of medieval and religious history to discuss how the promotion of Christianity and monasticism in the Middle...
The Location of Religion
A Spatial Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
The ways in which humans interact with their location is an important topic within sociological studies of religion. It is integral to the place of religion in secular society. 'The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis' offers an overview of the ways in which religion can be located within social,...
Living Through Grief With Spirituality
With Pictured Words of Comfort from Jeremiah the Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Are you looking for answers as you struggle with grief, hurts, difficult circumstances, or suffering? "Living Through Grief With Spirituality, with Pictured Words of Comfort from Jeremiah the Prophet" relates our own struggles with grief and suffering to the hardships experienced by Jeremiah,...
Christmas as Religion
Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In Christmas as Religion, Christopher Deacy explores the premise that religion plays an elementary role in our understanding of the Christmas festival, but takes issue with much of the existing literature which is inclined to limit the contours and parameters of 'religion' to particular representations...