Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Andrew Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
'Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.
The basic premise of this book is that strength and weakness have a spiritual dimension.**'
Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man takes a radically new approach to the...
by John Caird
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
“BETWIXT that knowledge which can properly be termed science, and religion a distinction in recent times has been drawn by certain acute thinkers which, if valid, would be fatal to the claim of theology or of a philosophy of a religion to be ranked among the sciences. Science, it is said, deals...
Toward a Positive Psychology of Religion
Belief Science in the Postmodern Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Psychologist and ethicist Robert Rocco Cottone takes readers on a religious journey infusing postmodern philosophy positive psychology and ethics into a comprehensive vision of religion in the future. Defining postmodern religion in a positive engaging and educational way he answers questions like What...
The Study of Religion
An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This updated textbook unravels the complex issues related to methodology and theory in the study of religion. It equips students with the knowledge needed for the academic study of religion, explaining the history of the methodology, including ideas of key theorists, and discusses key issues in the...
The Importance of Religion
Meaning and Action in our Strange World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices
Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world...
by James Freeman Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Ethnic and Catholic Religions. § 1. Object of the present Work. The present work is what the Germans call a _Versuch_, and the English an Essay, or attempt. It is an attempt to compare the great religions of the world with each Other. When completed, this comparison ought to show what each is, what...
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
In this revised bestselling book, Peter Scazzero outlines a roadmap for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative. He unveils what's wrong with our current definition of "spiritual growth" and offers not only a model of spirituality that actually works, but seven steps to change that...
Philosophy of Religion for a New Century
Essays in Honor of Eugene Thomas Long
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Philosophy of Religion for a New Century represents the work of nineteen scholars presented at a conference in honor of Eugene T. Long at the University of South Carolina, April 5-6, 2002.
This volume is a good example of philosophy in dialogue; there is both respect and genuine disagreement. First,...
Fighting God
An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Fighting God is a firebrand manifesto from one of the most recognizable faces of atheism. In his book, Silverman-a walking, talking atheist billboard known for his appearances on Fox News-discusses the effectiveness, ethics and impact of the in-your-face-atheist who refuses to be silent.
Silverman...
by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A new philosophy of religion for a secular world
How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us?
These questions stand at...
by Robert Rite
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Why is the "New Age Movement" (the NAM) so diametrically opposed to Christianity? What is the coming one world religion? Could it be the New Age Movement; or a mixture of Catholic-Christianity with the New Age Movement and other religions; or a mutation thereof? Could it be a global...
Does God Make a Difference?
Taking Religion Seriously in Our Schools and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
In this provocative book Warren A. Nord argues that public schools and universities leave the vast majority of students religiously illiterate. Such education is not religiously neutral, a matter of constitutional importance; indeed, it borders on secular indoctrination when measured against the requirements...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Religious concerns stand at the center of international politics, yet key paradigms in international relations, namely realism, liberalism, and constructivism, barely consider religion in their analysis of political subjects. The essays in this collection rectify this. Authored by leading scholars,...
by Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges,...