Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
Medieval Philosophy of Religion
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The Medieval period was one of the richest eras for the philosophical study of religion. Covering the period from the 6th to the 16th century, reaching into the Renaissance, "The History of Western Philosophy of Religion 2" shows how Christian, Islamic and Jewish thinkers explicated and...
Vom Jakobsweg zum Tierfriedhof
Wie Religion heute lebendig ist
Language: German
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Das vorliegende Buch greift die durch den Religionssoziologen Hubert Knoblauch formulierte Forderung [Erforscht die gelebte Religion!] in zweifacher Hinsicht auf. Erstens bietet es ausgewählte aktuelle Beispiele dafür, wo und wie Religion in ihren gelebt-populären Ausdrucksweisen im unübersichtlichen...
The Religion of Law
Race, Citizenship and Children's Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
How is religion, particularly non-Christianness, conceptualised and represented in English law? What is the relationship between religion, race, ethnicity and culture in these conceptualisations? What might be the socio-political effects of conceptualising religion in particular ways? This book addresses...
by J. L. Schellenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"There is no attempt here to lay down as inviolable or to legislate certain ways of looking at things or ways of proceeding for philosophers of religion, only proposals for how to deal with a range of basic issues—proposals that I hope will ignite much fruitful discussion and which, in any case,...
The Confluence of Law and Religion
Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Work of Norman Doe
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Since the early 1990s, politicians, policymakers, the media and academics have increasingly focused on religion, noting the significant increase in the number of cases involving religion. As a result, law and religion has become a specific area of study. The work of Professor Norman Doe at Cardiff...
Patterns of Secularization
Church, State and Nation in Greece and the Republic of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The politicization of religion is a central feature of the modern world, pointing to the continued relevance of the secularization debate: does modernization result in the decline of the social and political significance of religion or rather in a reaffirmation of religious values? This book examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children’s and young people’s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact...
Religion With/Out Religion
The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Written in response to John Caputo's The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, this work gathers together cutting-edge theologians and philosophers to examine the relationship between Derridan deconstruction and religion. Containing a lengthy counter-response by Caputo, as well as an interview, Religion...
Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation
Essays in Reformational Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Reformational philosophy rests on the ideas of nineteenth-century educator, church leader, and politician Abraham Kuyper, and it emerged in the early twentieth century among Reformed Protestant thinkers in the Netherlands. Combining comprehensive criticisms of Western philosophy with robust proposals...
Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Religion
Rebirth of the Capable Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Religion was a constant theme throughout Paul Ricoeur’s long career, and yet he never wrote a full-length treatment of the topic. In this important new book, Brian Gregor draws on the full scope of Ricoeur’s writings to lay out the essential features of his philosophical interpretation of religion,...
by William Whewell
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Although the opinions presented in the following Essay are put forwards without claiming for them any value beyond what they may derive from the arguments there offered, they are not published without some fear of giving offence. It will be a curious, but not a very wonderful event, if it should now...
Your Neighbor's Religion
Major World Religions from a Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Our world has now become a neighborhood. This is a most significant time in history to understand religion as it is practiced on the earth.
A team of gifted theologians examine the primary religions of the world in a manner that is fair, concise, and faithful to historical Christian doctrine....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
The ethical treatment of non-human animals is an increasingly significant issue, directly affecting how people share the planet with other creatures and visualize themselves within the natural world. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics is a key reference source in this area, looking...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Until now, there has been no direct and extensive engagement with the category of religion from liberal political philosophy. Over the last thirty years or so, liberals have tended to analyze religion under proximate categories such as 'conceptions of the good' (in debates about neutrality) or 'culture'...