Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
From recent sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, to arguments about faith schools and religious indoctrination, this volume considers the interconnection between the actual lives of children and the position of children as placeholders for the future. Childhood has often been a particular...
by Duncan Pritchard, Mark Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they challenge and inform each other.
Key topics and their areas of focus include:
• Foundational Issues – why should anyone care about...
by Jean A Pardeck, John W Murphy, Roland Meinert
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work discusses the benefits and disadvantages of the postmodern philosophy as a foundation for social work and human service practice. Social work students and practitioners will learn about the developments that have shaped postmodern thinking as...
The Question of the Animal and Religion
Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a powerful case for elevating the category of the animal in the study of religion. Major theorists have...
Cell Phone Spirituality
What Your Cell Phone Can Teach You About Life and God.
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Some books just analyze and separate. This one synthesizes and puts back together things that never should have been separated--while fully recognizing the busyness and endless options of our lives. Trust Kevin Goodrich to be asolid and very creative spiritual guide! Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M. Center...
Families and Faith
How Religion is Passed Down across Generations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from American Sociology Association Sociology of Religion Section Winner of the Richard Kalish Best Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America Few things are more likely to cause heartache to devout parents than seeing their child leave the...
Making the Bible Belt
Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the South, but the reality he described was...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Charles H. Long is one of the most influential and pioneering scholars in the study of religion from the past 50 years. This is the first comprehensive collection of his writings, edited by Long himself, and contains 38 pieces, including both published and previously unpublished articles, lectures,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies analyses the role of religion in past and present understandings of Asia. Religion, and the history of its study in the modern academy, has exercised massive influence over Asian Studies fields in the past century. Asian Studies has in turn affected, and is...
Religion and American Education
Rethinking a National Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
In the face of the current environmental crisis—which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions—members of all the world’s faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion’s relationship to ecology. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology offers a comprehensive...
Spirituality for Ministry
Seven Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The topic of ministerial spirituality engages two important contemporary movements: the remarkably growing interest in spiritual matters and the dramatic increase in the number of lay Catholics involved in ministry. This work includes seven perspectives from leading scholars on themes relating spirituality...
Science and Religion
New Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion was decisively challenged by John Hedley Brooke in his classic Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1991). Almost two decades on, Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives revisits this argument and asks...
Religion: the Failed Narrative
Clashing Religious Doctrine and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
God emerges like a hologram in our consciousness and is falsely presented as the champion who will save us from death. Science, with its focused methodology, tells the true story.
God is the main character in religion, but he is a figment of the imagination. Humans experience consciousness...