Religion category: 228605 books
by Gustaaf Geeraerts
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Post-Secular Society argues for several characteristics of the secular: the experience of living in a secular age and the experience of living without religion as a normal condition.
Religion in the West is often seen as marked by both innovation and disarray. In spite of differing approaches...
Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society
Vital Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
This book tackles the topic of religion, a broad subject exciting renewed interest across the social and historical sciences. The volume is tightly focused on the early farming village of Çatalhöyük, which has generated much interest both within and outside of archaeology, especially for its contributions...
The Believing Primate
Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Over the last two decades, scientific accounts of religion have received a great deal of scholarly and popular attention both because of their intrinsic interest and because they are widely seen as potentially constituting a threat to the religion they analyse. The Believing Primate aims to describe...
Eradicating Barriers in Religion
Creating Unity through Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
This book highlights the similarities between various religions and depicts how it is only the stereotypes in society which differentiate them from each other. Through exploring the thrilling evolution of cultures and representing how the religions’ difficult pasts can be transformed into a bright...
The Psychologies in Religion
Working with the Religious Client
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
Listed in Today's Books, Book Register as a "!!!Must Read" title.
"This book is really a manual that every therapist should have, if he or she does not already have the knowledge and insight contained within its pages. ...Infinitely enjoyable"--PsycCRITIQUES
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Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education
Perspectives, Models, and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education explores foundational issues surrounding the interaction of religion and the academy in the twenty-first century. Featuring the work of eighteen scholars from diverse institutional, disciplinary, and religious backgrounds, this outstanding collection of...
Religion Is God’S Way of Showing Us It’S a Lot Earlier in Human Evolution Than We Thought
The Path of the Doubtful Sojourner: the Spiritual Quest of Nonbelievers
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Radical understanding of ourselves is now possible to our very coregreater insight into whom we really are, where we came from, what our evolution has been, what it has meant, and what it means now and for the future. That quest has been an intellectual one, but it also has been a spiritual oneand...
Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is one of the great modern examinations of religion's meaning, function and impact on human affairs. In this volume, the first complete English-language commentary on the work, James J. DiCenso explains the historical context in which the book appeared,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Does belief in God yield the best understanding of value? Can we provide transcendental support for key moral concepts? Does evolutionary theory undermine or support religious moralities? Is divine forgiveness unjust? Can a wholly good God understand evil? Should philosophy of religion proceed in...
Religion, Identity and Politics
Germany and Turkey in Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
German–Turkish relations, which have a long history and generally unrecognized depth, have rarely been examined as mutually formative processes. Isolated instances of influence have been examined in detail, but the historical and still ongoing processes of mutual interaction have rarely been seriously...
Dangerous Games
What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous...
Religion as Magical Ideology
How the Supernatural Reflects Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
'Religion as Magical Ideology' examines the relationship between rationality and supernatural beliefs arguing that such beliefs are products of evolution, cognition and culture. The book does not offer a false rapprochement between reason and religion; instead, it explores their interrelationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
What is religion? How does it work? Many natural abilities of the human mind are involved, and crucial among them is the ability to use language. This volume brings together research from linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as from religious studies, to understand the phenomena...
Introduction to World Religions
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This leading textbook for world religion is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach and its respected board of consulting editors, this text addresses ways to study religion, provides broad coverage of diverse...