Religion category: 228605 books
Why Study Religion?
Understanding Humanity's Pursuit of the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Why Studying Religion Matters in a Pluralistic Context
This brief primer explains why Christian students should study religion, how they should go about it, and why it is important in our contemporary, pluralistic context. Senior religion scholar Terry Muck introduces the discipline and explains...
A Complete Introduction To Hinduism
World Religion Series, #6
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
"World Religion Series: A Complete Introduction to Hinduism" is for anyone who wants to know more about this ancient religion with over a billion practicing followers across the world.
The Hindu religion is very accommodating of other religions meaning many different philosophies...
Godless
The Church of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.
Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals...
A History of Religion in America
From the First Settlements through the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
A History of Religion in America: From the First Settlements through the Civil War provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America from the pre-colonial era through the aftermath of the Civil War. It explores major religious groups in the United States and the following topics:
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Religion in American Politics
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nation,"...
Religion in the American South
Protestants and Others in History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first collection published on the subject in fifteen years, Religion in the American South builds upon a new generation...
Shopping for God
How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Not so long ago religion was a personal matter that was seldom discussed in public. No longer. Today religion is everywhere, from books to movies to television to the internet-to say nothing about politics. Now religion is marketed and advertised like any other product or service. How did this happen?...
The Rabbi Who Believes in Zeus
Popular Myths About Religion, Faith, and God
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
What is the purpose of religion? What is the meaning of faith? What is the nature of God? These are basic questions that have been asked by human beings for thousands of years. But recently these questions have erupted into open battle between two opposing camps. One side argues that religion is inherently...
Religion
An Anthropological View
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The classic anthropological analysis of religion from a pioneer in the field
From the preface:
“Scientific efforts to learn just what are the forms and functions of religion have not been few; it is the purpose of this book to review some of them and to synthesize the suggestions...
A Religion of One's Own
A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
**The New York Times bestselling author and trusted spiritual adviser offers a follow-up to his classic Care of the Soul. **
Something essential is missing from modern life. Many who’ve turned away from religious institutions—and others who have lived wholly without religion—hunger for...
by M. M. Mangasarian
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from M. M. Mangasarian, ‘What was the Religion of Shakespeare?’
It is by observing the frequency and emphasis with which certain views and expressions occur and reoccur in an author, and the consistency with which they are given the...
How to Defeat Religion in 10 Easy Steps
A Toolkit for Secular Activists
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Do you want the greatest challenges of the day to be addressed with thoughtful, reality-based solutions rather than with cherry-picked quotations from scripture? Do you want to shrink religion—especially fundamentalist religion—to the point that it plays no noticeable role in American public life?...
by Mike Hockney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
People can’t reason. They don’t even know what reason is. “Reason” is almost always harnessed to something that has nothing to do with reason. Believers in mainstream religion are feeling types who “reason” with their emotions, or with their mystical intuitions. They subscribe to narrative...
The Religion Toolkit
A Complete Guide to Religious Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This complete overview of religious studies provides students with the essential knowledge and tools they need to explore and understand the nature of religion.
Covers the early development of religion, with overviews of major and minor religions from Islam to Scientology
Considers recent developments...