Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Timothy K. Beal
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Religion's great and powerful mystery fascinates us, but it also terrifies. So too the monsters that haunt the stories of the Judeo-Christian mythos and earlier traditions: Leviathan, Behemoth, dragons, and other beasts. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy K. Beal writes about the monsters...
by Francisco Capelo
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2019
It is probably a utopia, but is a concrete utopia and with evident practical application: a rational religion, perhaps the only one that can claim this status.
While the three famous religions of the book preserve the monolithic authority of monotheism, the oldest known religion in the History...
by Kameelah L. Martin, Beauty Bragg, James Manigault-Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic...
Law's Religion
Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Prevailing stories about law and religion place great faith in the capacity of legal multiculturalism, rights-based toleration, and conceptions of the secular to manage issues raised by religious difference. Yet the relationship between law and religion consistently proves more fraught than such...
The Growth of Religious Diversity - Vol 1
Britain from 1945 Volume 1: Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This two-volume set considers the role and significance of religion in post-war Britian, focusing, in particular, upon the closely inter-related themes of the decline of a specifically `Christian Society' and the emergence of a culturally and religiously plural society. Three core questions are examined...
by Robert Audi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Democratic states must protect the liberty of citizens and must accommodate both religious liberty and cultural diversity. This democratic imperative is one reason for the increasing secularity of most modern democracies. Religious citizens, however, commonly see a secular state as unfriendly toward...
Everyday Religion
Observing Modern Religious Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Social scientists sometimes seem not to know what to do with religion. In the first century of sociology's history as a discipline, the reigning concern was explaining the emergence of the modern world, and that brought with it an expectation that religion would simply fade from the scene as societies...
by Charles Bradlaugh
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...
Recovering Spirituality
Achieving Emotional Sobriety in Your Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Guides those in recovery in developing the awareness and skills to deal with life's issues by practicing authentic spirituality and emotional sobriety.
Spirituality is a critical aspect of the Twelve Steps and other recovery programs. Yet, for those of us disposed to addiction, it can be easy...
Resurrecting Religion
Finding Our Way Back to the Good News
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
There’s lots of bad religion out there. But the answer isn’t no religion, it’s true religion: living out—publicly and communally—what we say we believe privately and individually. True religion puts flesh on the bones of faith. Resurrecting Religion offers an inspiring, stretching vision...
Religion, Identity and Change
Perspectives on Global Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Religion is of enduring importance in the lives of many people, yet the religious landscape has been dramatically transformed in recent decades. Established churches have been challenged by eastern faiths, revivals of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, and the eclectic spiritualities of the New...
Great Awakenings
Popular Religion and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
As religious fervor grows, Dr. Fishwick, a recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Lifetime Achievement from The American Culture Association, takes a sweeping look at religion in the United States--the country with the highest church attendance in the Western world. Popular religion can take...
Religion of Fear
The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Conservative evangelicalism has transformed American politics, disseminating a sometimes fearful message not just through conventional channels, but through subcultures and alternate modes of communication. Within this world is a "Religion of Fear," a critical impulse that dramatizes cultural and...
Staging Faith
Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive...