Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
A Course in Spirituality
An Inspiring and Enthralling Journey into New Age Philosophies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
What is New Age spirituality?
Is it relevant to our twenty-first century experience? Alain Aristides book sets out to illuminate the various paths to spiritual enlightenment.
Including short biographies of New Age authors, A Course in Spirituality references materials as contiguous as...
How to Be Ultra Spiritual
12 1/2 Steps to Spiritual Superiority
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Welcome to the Glorious Grandeur of Ultra Spirituality
In case you haven’t noticed, the New Age has become the Old Age. But don’t recycle your crystals just yet! His Enlightenedness JP Sears is ushering in the Newer Age, blinding us with the dawn-like brilliance that is Ultra Spirituality....
African Religion
The Quarry of the Rock of Monotheism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Worldwide scholarship has established the fact that Africa is the cradle land of humanity. Dr. Kurewa promotes the theory that African Religion could very easily have been the proto-religion of humanity, and a religion from which other monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity,...
The Myth of Religious Violence
Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East. William T. Cavanaugh...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Psychological interest in religion, in terms of both theory and empirical research, has been constant since the beginning of psychology. However, since the beginning of the 21st Century, partially due to important social and political events and developments, interest in religion within personality...
by Henry Rosemont Jr., Huston Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
In this provocative volume two important scholars of religion, Huston Smith and Henry Rosemont, Jr., put forth their viewpoints and share a probing conversation. Though the two diverge considerably in their accounts of religious faith and practice, they also agree on fundamental points. Huston Smith,...
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Religious Diversity Today: Experiencing Religion in the Contemporary World [3 volumes]
Experiencing Religion in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Why is human suffering and the existence of evil part of the human experience? How does religious doctrine establish one's identity? In what ways does religion interact with and shape the social order? This thought-provoking work ponders these questions and explores the concept of religion from various...
Religion and the Constitution, Volume 1
Free Exercise and Fairness
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should members of religious sects be able to use peyote in worship? Should pacifists be forced...
Darwin's Apple
The Evolutionary Biology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Darwin’s Apple proposes a new explanation for the origin and purpose of religion within the incontrovertible theory of evolution. It describes how religion is biologically adaptive and genetically evolved through the co-evolution of religion, ritual, and advanced human cognition.
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Time in Roman Religion
One Thousand Years of Religious History
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Religion is a major subfield of ancient history and classical studies, and Roman religion in particular is usually studied today by experts in two rather distinct halves: the religion of the Roman Republic, covering the fifth through first centuries B.C.; and the religious diversity of the Roman Empire,...
by Ellis Sandoz
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
As debates rage over the place of faith in our national life, Tocqueville’s nineteenth-century crediting of religion for shaping America is largely overlooked today. Now, in Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America, Ellis Sandoz reveals the major role that Protestant Christianity played...
Religion in the Ranks
Belief and Religious Experience in the Canadian Forces
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
What role does religion play in the Canadian Forces today? Examining the changing functions of the official religious leaders in the chaplaincy as well as the place and purpose of religion in the lives of regular military personnel, Religion in the Ranks explores this question in the context of late...
Religion and Inequality in America
Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology....
Diffused Religion
Beyond Secularization
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book explores the concept of diffused religion as it is found in contemporary society, resulting from a vast process of religious socialisation that continues to pervade our cultural reality. It provides a critical engagement with a framework of non-institutional religion that is based on values...