Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Elizabeth MacKinlay
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Explore pastoral strategies for dealing with mental health problems!
Mental health is increasingly being recognized as an important issue in later life. This valuable book will help you examine this dimension of aging in the context of pastoral, spiritual, and cultural issues. It explores the...
The Transformation of American Religion
The Story of a Late-Twentieth-Century Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2001
As recently as a few decades ago, most people would have described America as a predominantly Protestant nation. Today, we are home to a colorful mix of religious faiths and practices, from a resurgent Catholic Church and a rapidly growing Islam to all forms of Buddhism and many other non-Christian...
African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa
Emerging Trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with other World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary...
Spiritual, but not Religious
Understanding Unchurched America
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Nearly 40% of all Americans have no connection with organized religion. Yet many of these people, even though they might never step inside a house of worship, live profoundly spiritual lives. But what is the nature and value of unchurched spirituality in America? Is it a recent phenomenon, a New Age...
Evolving God-Images
Essays on Religion, Individuation, and Postmodern Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This collection of reflective essays explores spirituality and its changing relationship to culture, individual identity, and society in our increasingly globalized, postmodern world. Born out of a doctoral seminar at Pacifica Graduate Institute entitled The God Complex, the essays provide a personal...
by Harry Jay
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Religion & Spirituality - The “Covenants of the Bible” describes
the partnerships between God and man. Throughout the over 6,000
years of human existence, God has been faithful to His promises;
man has not! A good many practicing Christians are unfamiliar
with all of the biblical covenants...
by Harry Jay
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Religion & Spirituality - Truthful Christianity, Judaism, and Islam is not a book on spiritualism and in fact it is a book of spirituality vs religion. It delineates what are the differences in religions and speaks about religion spirituality. It away the myths and misinformation and presents...
A Bell Curve
The Rise and Decline of Traditional Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
From earliest times humanity has sought to understand its place and role in the world, has sought for meaning. Wherever human beings are to be found myth, and extra-historical record of who we are, has always played a vital role in this regard, Traditional religion, by comparison, has only emerged...
I Don't Know What to Believe
Making Spiritual Peace with Your Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Americans—especially young people—are more un-churched and less affiliated with organized religion than at any other time in our history. I Don’t Know What to Believe addresses that decline and presents an insightful examination of authentic spirituality for those who desire answers, guidance,...
Critical Spirituality
A Holistic Approach to Contemporary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Critical spirituality is a way of naming a desire to work with what is meaningful in the context of enabling a socially just, diverse and inclusive society. Critical spirituality means seeing people holistically, seeking to understand where they are coming from and what matters to them at a fundamental...
Why Religion and Spirituality Matter for Public Health
Evidence, Implications, and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This volume reviews the exploding religion/spirituality (R/S) and health literature from a population health perspective. It emphasizes the distinctive Public Health concern for promoting health and preventing disease in societies, nations, and communities, as well as individuals. Part I offers a...
Beyond Yahweh and Jesus
Bringing Death's Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
The first in-depth psychoanalytic study of the Old and New Testaments, Beyond Yahweh and Jesus centers on God's role in enabling humans to cope with death and the anxieties it evokes. Yahweh is seen as tending to increase rather than diminish these death anxieties, while Christ offers near-perfect...
Is Religion Good for Your Health?
The Effects of Religion on Physical and Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Is Religion Good for Your Health? takes you deep into the heart of the ageless debate on the importance of religion and faith to physical and mental health. On the one hand, you will learn about important research findings from cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intervention studies that have demonstrated...
A Christian Guide to Spirituality
Foundations for Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Spirituality is lived belief. When we pray, worship, or reach out to our neighbors, we live out our beliefs. Our beliefs structure our spirituality like skin stretched over the bones of our bodies.
These beliefs start with faith in God the Father through Jesus Christ as revealed through the...