Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
How Judaism Became a Religion
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story...
God Is Relevant
Finding Strength and Peace in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Is God relevant? In this intriguing work, internationally renowned author and public speaker Luis Palau tackles what noted historian Will Durant calls "the greatest question of our time"--whether we can live without God. Admittedly, many individuals today want to go it alone, without God....
The Book of Jubilees (The Little Genesis, The Apocalypse of Moses)
Old Testament / Apocrypha / Pseudepigrapha
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
The Book of Jubilees is a new (2011), easy-to-read translation by ancient languages scholar Dr. A. Nyland and is NOT one of the many century-old public domain translations NOR is it a reworded public domain version. The Book of Jubilees is of great interest to students of antiquities and archaeology...
by Harvey Cox
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
“A beautiful book and a Cox classic….Readers will be grateful that they joined him on his journey.” —E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Souled Out
“Insightful, provocative, and inspiring—I even found myself uttering a hearty evangelical ‘Amen!’” —Richard Mouw, President, Fuller...
The Secret Message of Jesus
Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
When Brian McLaren began offering an alternative vision of Christian faith and life in books such as A New Kind of Christian and A Generous Orthodoxy, he ignited a firestorm of praise and condemnation that continues to spread across the religious landscape. To some religious conservatives, McLaren...
Religion in American Life
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
"Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One can hardly do better than Religion in American Life.... A good read, especially for the uninitiated....
The Religion of Democracy
Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A history of religion’s role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers
Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation’s founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side...
The Woman in the Shaman's Body
Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe...
Spiritual Science
Why Science Needs Spirituality to Make Sense of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
It is often assumed that there are two ways of interpreting the world: a rational scientific way, or an irrational religious way. Spiritual Science offers a third alternative: a spiritual view of reality that transcends both conventional science and religion, and answers many of the riddles that neither...
El Niño Fidencio and the Fidencistas
Folk Religion in the U.S.-Mexican Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
El Nio Fidencio and the Fidencistas: Folk Religion on the U.S.-Mexican Borderland, is an biographical ethnography examining the life of Mexicos most famous folk healer as well as the folk religious healing cult that has followed him since his death in 1938. Dr. Zavaleta examines curanderismo, the...
Life Passion
Words Inspire Our Desire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Life Passion: Words Inspire Our Desire is an inspiring collection of poetry and short stories offering an alternative view of God and religion. Author Mark Gregory Washer gives a fresh perspective on life and Gods expectations of how we should live a spiritual life. He talks about the difference between...
Religious Worlds
The Comparative Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
From Gods, to ritual observance to the language of myth and the distinction between the sacred and the profane, Religious Worlds explores the structures common to all spiritual traditions.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research. Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories,...
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...