Religion category: 228605 books
by John Gruneich
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book presents a new religion. This new religion is called Contemporary Theism (CT). The worshipping groups of this new religion are called Co-Creator Communities (CCC). Even though this handbook will function as the guiding text for those who become disciples of Contemporary Theism, it is expressly...
Religion in the Oval Office
The Religious Lives of American Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven...
Religion in China
Survival and Revival under Communist Rule
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human history--a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution. All churches, temples, and mosques were closed down, converted for secular uses, or turned to museums for the purpose of atheist education. Over the last...
La religion universelle
Sa mission : maintenir ouvert le chemin vers Dieu
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Les hommes ont perdu leur nature en voulant vivre uniquement pour eux-mêmes, dans des religions inventées pour l’homme et non pas pour honorer Dieu.
Aujourd’hui, l’opportunité exceptionnelle leur est donnée de retrouver le chemin vers les mondes supérieurs
à travers la nouvelle...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
This nuanced book considers the role of religion and religiosity in modern Mexico, breaking new ground with an emphasis on popular religion and its relationship to politics. The contributors highlight the multifaceted role of religion, illuminating the ways that religion and religious devotion have...
by Francisco Capelo
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2019
It is probably a utopia, but is a concrete utopia and with evident practical application: a rational religion, perhaps the only one that can claim this status.
While the three famous religions of the book preserve the monolithic authority of monotheism, the oldest known religion in the History...
Law's Religion
Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Prevailing stories about law and religion place great faith in the capacity of legal multiculturalism, rights-based toleration, and conceptions of the secular to manage issues raised by religious difference. Yet the relationship between law and religion consistently proves more fraught than such...
The Growth of Religious Diversity - Vol 1
Britain from 1945 Volume 1: Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This two-volume set considers the role and significance of religion in post-war Britian, focusing, in particular, upon the closely inter-related themes of the decline of a specifically `Christian Society' and the emergence of a culturally and religiously plural society. Three core questions are examined...
Everyday Religion
Observing Modern Religious Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Social scientists sometimes seem not to know what to do with religion. In the first century of sociology's history as a discipline, the reigning concern was explaining the emergence of the modern world, and that brought with it an expectation that religion would simply fade from the scene as societies...
by Charles Bradlaugh
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
As an unbeliever, I ask leave to plead that humanity has been real gainer from scepticism, and that the gradual and growing rejection of Christianity—like the rejection of the faiths which preceded it—has in fact added, and will add, to man's happiness and well being. I maintain that in physics science...
Resurrecting Religion
Finding Our Way Back to the Good News
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
There’s lots of bad religion out there. But the answer isn’t no religion, it’s true religion: living out—publicly and communally—what we say we believe privately and individually. True religion puts flesh on the bones of faith. Resurrecting Religion offers an inspiring, stretching vision...
Religion of Fear
The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Conservative evangelicalism has transformed American politics, disseminating a sometimes fearful message not just through conventional channels, but through subcultures and alternate modes of communication. Within this world is a "Religion of Fear," a critical impulse that dramatizes cultural and...
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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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...