Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
Religion and the Specter of the West
Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the...
Religion, Conflict, and Peacemaking
An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Discussions of the relationship between religion and violence have been on the rise since 9/11. Conversations have also focused on how religion can mediate conflict and help build peace. This volume offers a diversity of approaches to the subject, gathering essays from a cross-section of prominent...
by Hassan B. Abdelwahab
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
The books main theme is that nations, like human beings, have souls and minds. The soul of a nation determines the way it thinks and acts or reacts in the international scene. Equally, those souls are open to influences, such as religious ones, but some are more receptive than others are. The case...
Viral Jesus
Recovering the Contagious Power of the Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
By returning to what we once had…
We can recover what we once enjoyed.
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In the early centuries Christianity was an explosive, viral movement that spread by word of mouth. Persecution could not stop it. In fact, it often helped to spread it.
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But today,...
by James W Ellor, F. Ellen Netting
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Gain an understanding of the increased role religious congregations now play in providing social support to the elderly
Religious congregations and faith-based organizations (FBO) from the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions have worked on behalf of older adults for centuries. But the...
Gospel of the Open Road
According to Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2001
Gospel of the Open Road reclaims Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau as Americas spiritual birthright. It rescues them from literary history, and reveals them in their true light: as democracys prophets of the soul. Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau were religious seers who developed...
by Jason Ananda Josephson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call “religion.” There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other...
Myth and Deity in Japan
The Interplay of Kami and Buddhas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Shinto is a tradition native to Japan that arose naturally on the eastern fringe of the Eurasian continent and was woven over many years into the fabric of people's everyday lives. When Buddhism entered the country in the sixth century, the two religions-rather than competing with or seeking to marginalize...
The Atum-Re Revival
Ancient Egyptian Wisdom for the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
An interest in the magic, religion and spirituality of the ancient Egyptians continues to increase steadily as people begin to realise that it is possible to follow this ancient tradition in the 21st century. The Egyptian religion is the oldest recorded belief system in the world, having just entered...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Of late, religion seems to be everywhere, suffusing U.S. politics and popular culture and acting as both a unifying and a divisive force. This collection of manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics,...
A History of Religion in America
From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
A History of Religion in America: From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America from the end of the American Civil War to religion in post 9/11 America. The volume explores major religious groups in the United States...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Should parents receive vouchers to send their children to religious schools? What limits -- if any -- should the government place on abortion? Should the government permit and fund stem cell research? Should religious organizations have the right to prohibit the employment of homosexuals? Should public...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
How do religion, gender and sexuality interact? How have they impacted, and continue to impact, human culture? The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender brings together, for the first time, the key texts in the field. Designed as a textbook for use in a classroom setting, it offers thought-provoking...
Religion and Global Culture
New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2003
Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of historians of religion who are concerned with situating the contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of the modern world. The writing of each of the volume's contributors relates to the work of leading historian...