Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books
Beyond Slavery
Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public policy.
Teachings En Route to Freedom: A seeker's quest for Enlightenment
Enlightenment Series, #5
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Throughout history, India has produced an extraordinary range of religious traditions and, even today, innumerable spiritual teachers can be found there.
This book documents Madhukar Thompson's encounters with a wide range of gurus whom he sought out in his quest for enlightenment.
It presents a compilation...
The Murmuring Deep
Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
From one of the most innovative and acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, here is a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the men and women of the Bible.
For centuries scholars and rabbis have wrestled with the biblical narrative,...
Wonder
From Emotion to Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
The attempt to identify the emotional sources of religion goes back to antiquity. In an exploration that bridges science and spirituality, Robert C. Fuller makes the convincing case that a sense of wonder is a principal source of humanity's belief in the existence of an unseen order of life. Like...
Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
Neurotheology Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
***“All of Christ’s philosophical ideas can be compressed into one simple phrase – Love thy neighbor. It elucidates the innate human kindness in the simplest manner. No creed, no institution, no book can claim the exclusive possession of this simple yet magnificent phrase of human excellence....
by Frank Graziano
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Mexican statues and paintings like the Virgen de Guadalupe and the Señor de Chalma are endowed with sacred presence and the power to perform miracles. Millions of devotees visit their shrines to request miracles for health, employment, children, and countless everyday matters. When miracles are granted,...
by Peter Herriot
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2019
This book gives a personal insight into the hearts and minds of a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Open Brethren. Using Brethren magazine articles, obituaries, and testimonies, Peter Herriot argues that the Brethren constitute a perfect example of a fundamentalism. Their culture is entirely opposed...
by Captain Adiari
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
How to Develop Your Mind and Spirit for Exploits is an interesting book which unveils the knowledge that each of us is here in this life for a specific purpose. Once an individual discovers his or her life purpose and starts to run with it, he or she begins to experience the kind of momentum and fulfilment...
by Steven Leonard Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term "genocide" and was the motivating force behind the...
Hindu Goddesses
Quiz Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Religious texts play an important role in benefiting society as well as in upholding the values in it. The Vedas, the Ramayana, the Gita, the Puraanas and the Mahabharata are some of Hindu’s ancient religious texts that have been guiding the society for ages towards the development of a better society.
A...
Religious Knives
Historical and Psychological Dimensions of International Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In this timely multidimensional study, historian Jouni Suistola and psychoanalyst Vamik D. Volkan draw on their respective disciplines and their own personal and professional experiences to investigate the historical and psychological roots of terrorism. Specifically, what is it in human nature that...
by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
In this concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the increasingly bitter encounters between piety, reform, dissent, and the institutional Church between 1100 and 1500. Although the loaded terms of "heresy" and "orthodoxy"...
The Idolatry of God
Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
You can’t be satisfied. Life is difficult. You don’t know the secret.
Whether readers are devout believers or distant seekers, The Idolatry of God shows that we must lay down our certainties and honestly admit our doubts to identify with Jesus. Rollins purposely upsets fundamentalist certainty...
The Healing Power of Prayer
The Surprising Connection between Prayer and Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Prayer can heal you. It's not just hype or hope or a spiritual cliché.There is actual scientific evidence to support this. Recent medical and psychological studies claim that prayer can relieve stress, improve attitudes, and mend bodies. Prayer generates peace, power, and health-a triple preventative...