Religion category: 228605 books
Assertive Religion
Religious Intolerance in a Multicultural World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Questions about religions and religious institutions have changed dramatically since they first arose many years ago. In the beginning of the twenty-first century, the link of religion with extreme ideologies captures our attention. Such questions have been the focus of a steadily growing number of...
Religion and Civil Society
Rethinking Public Religion in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book presents the first full-length study of the relationship between religion and the controversial concept of civil society. Across the world in the last two decades of the twentieth century religions re-entered public space as influential discursive and symbolic systems apparently beyond the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A Science and Religion Primer is a unique resource: an encyclopedia, an annotated bibliography, and a survey of the relationship between two equally complex fields. Editors Heidi Campbell and Heather Looy begin their work with four chapters from expert contributors: history of the science and religion...
George Santayana's Philosophy of Religion
His Roman Catholic Influences and Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
George Santayana (1862-1952) of Spanish descent, and generally claimed to be in the canon of American philosophers, was substantially influenced by his Roman Catholic origins in his philosophical disposition toward the value of tradition, religious symbols and dogma. His philosophical project sustained...
by Stephen R. Palmquist
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Palmquist’s Commentary provides the first definitive clarification on Kant’s Philosophy of Religion in English; it includes the full text of Pluhar’s translation, interspersed with explanations, providing both a detailed overview and an original interpretation of Kant’s work.
Offers definitive,...
Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion
Realism and Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Throughout his long and controversial career, Martin Heidegger developed a substantial contribution to the phenomenology of religion. In Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion, Benjamin D. Crowe examines the key concepts and developmental phases that characterized Heidegger's work. Crowe shows that...
Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion
Religion Explained?
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution and cognition of religion has been driven by and interpreted in terms of a certain kind of philosophical and methodological...
by Russell Sandberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Issues concerning religion in the public sphere are rarely far from the headlines. As a result, scholars have paid increasing attention to religion. These scholars, however, have generally stayed within the confines of their own respective disciplines. To date there has been little contact between...
Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul
A Historical Entanglement
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Neither a book about the psychology of spirituality nor America’s ongoing turf wars between religion and science, Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul takes to task many of the presumed relationships between the two—from sharing common concerns to diametrically hostile opposites—to...
by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
“Religion has no work in justifying the man-made imaginations, hallucinations and delusions of the world. Real religion has to do with reality - empirical one - philosophical one - humane one.”
The prominent neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar has become an icon of harmony and egalitarianism...
Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Humanism Series
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
“The world needs the kind of religion that sets humanity free, not the kind that binds it with textual fanaticism. The world needs the kind of religion that humanizes the society, not the kind that dehumanizes it.”
One of twenty-first century’s most influential thinkers gives us a beautiful...
Religion for a Secular Age
Max Müller, Swami Vivekananda and Vedānta
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Religion for a Secular Age provides a transnational history of modern Vedānta through a comparative study of two of its most important exponents, Friedrich Max Muller (1823–1900) and Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902). This book explains why Vedānta's appeal spanned the ostensibly very different...
Readings in the Theory of Religion
Map, Text, Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
'Readings in the Theory of Religion' brings together classic and contemporary texts to promote new ways of thinking about religion. The texts reflect the diverse methods used in the study of religion: text and textuality; ritual; the body; gender and sexuality; religion and race; religion and colonialism;...
The Changing World Religion Map
Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices. It discusses a broad range of issues and phenomena that are related to religion, including nature, ethics, secularization, gender and identity. Broadening the context, it studies the interrelation between religion...