Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books

This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand...

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection,...

This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back onto the agenda. It challenges a tendency to over-emphasise rational aspects of religion, and rehabilitates its embodied, visceral and affective dimensions. Against the view that religious emotion is a purely private...

"La sociedad es la extensión del individuo... Por lo tanto, si el individuo cambia fundamentalmente, el mundo cambiará inevitablemente." Sobre esta base, Samael Aun Weor da su examen más impresionante del estado de nuestro mundo y cómo salvarlo. Uno de sus últimos setenta libros, La Revolución...

In this book “The God Confusion”, arguments for and the contentions against God are explored.

El ser humano es fruto del Amor y esencialmente es el Amor en sí. Cuando pierde su individualidad cae en la dualidad del Odio. Con el tiempo, el Odio es un sentimiento que marca la vida de las personas y las condiciona para el dolor, sufrimiento, tristeza y fracaso. Solamente comprendiendo la fuerza...

Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation is perennially controversial: Should it rightly be termed suicide? Does religion sanction it? Should it be celebrated or anathematized? At least some idealization of such self-chosen deaths is found in every religious tradition...

Experimente la develación de los misterios que unen a las distintas religiones y escuelas esotéricas. Este libro nos lleva a la más profunda reflexión, a dejar de ser imitadores y realizar un verdadero esfuerzo para ser adeptos, a cristalizar dentro de nosotros...

Post Materialist Religion discusses the transformations ofthe individual's worldview, and the role religion and nature can play incontemporary European societies. In doing so, Mika Lassander brings intoconversation sociological theories of secularisation and social-psychologicaltheories of interpersonal...

The book starts with the Peter Waldo standing up for what he believed in. He was kicked out of the church, so he started his own religion. The Waldensians came to America to escape religion burden. Their lives was compared to the story from the Bible when the children of Israel crossed the Jordan River, they were told to pick up a stone, one for each of the 12 tribes.

Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion-and-science” and our contemporary political and social landscape with a tailored eye towards the epistemological and hermeneutical impact...

Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of individuality and identities in...

From ancient myths to the world’s great religions, Dr. Shearer expands our knowledge of how humans perceive, think, and shape our relationships with the Divine.  Toward Interfaith Harmony: Why People Believe or Not, and Where Differences Take Us Next teaches that by understanding ourselves, we dare to transcend mere tolerance and to celebrate the differences that make us whole.

Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world. With chapters covering Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in East...