Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
Enlightenment Town
Finding Spiritual Awakening in a Most Improbable Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Combines adventure travel and offbeat characters with compelling insights into the nature of contemporary spirituality
The author is known for making Eastern culture and spirituality vividly accessible to Western audiences in books such as Father India, Re-enchantment, and Adventures with the...
The Virgin of Prince Street
Expeditions into Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
With organized religion becoming increasingly divisive and politicized and Americans abandoning their pews in droves, it’s easy to question aspects of traditional spirituality and devotion. In response to this shifting landscape, Sonja Livingston undertakes a variety of expeditions—from a mobile...
Magic, Miracles, and Religion
A Scientist's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
Can scientists study religion? Ilkka PyysiSinen says that they can. While the study of religion cannot be reduced to other disciplines, it must not ignore what other disciplines have learned about human thought and behavior. In this collection of essays, PyysiSinen shows how findings from cognitive...
The Social Significance of Religion in the Enlarged Europe
Secularization, Individualization and Pluralization
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Engaging with some of the central issues in the sociology of religion, this volume investigates the role and significance of churches and religion in contemporary Western and Eastern Europe. Based on an extensive international research project, it offers case studies of various countries (including...
by Steven Cahn
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In the views of most believers and critics, religion is essentially connected to the existence of a supernatural deity. If supernaturalism is not reasonable, the argument goes, religion cannot be reasonable—or if supernaturalism is reasonable, religion must be as well. Are faith and reason, religion...
Toward a Humean True Religion
Genuine Theism, Moderate Hope, and Practical Morality
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
David Hume is traditionally seen as a devastating critic of religion. He is widely read as an infidel, a critic of the Christian faith, and an attacker of popular forms of worship. His reputation as irreligious is well forged among his readers, and his argument against miracles sits at the heart of...
A U G U R I E S
Augural Recrescendoes of Covenantal Kairos
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Our world-planet is changing so fast! Amazons expanded its Robot Army from 1400 in 2013 to 45,000 in 2016. Climates changing faster than deniers denials. In the USA, 1 in 3 people are NONES in religious affiliation versus 1 in 10 thirty years ago. The Moores Law of computer chip speed says well be...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Offering a significant contribution to the emerging field of 'Non-Religion Studies', Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples draws on Australian 2011 Census statistics to ask whether the Indigenous Australian population, like the wider Australian society, is becoming increasingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia and international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral...
Studying Religion
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Widely used as a primer, a class text, or just a provocation to critical thinking, Studying Religion clearly explains the methods and theories employed in the academic study of religion by tackling the problem of how we define religion. Written for newcomers to the field, its chapters explore the...
by F. B. Jevons
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
The use of any science lies in its application to practical purposes. For Christianity, the use of the science of religion consists in applying it to show that Christianity is the highest manifestation of the religious spirit. To make this use of the science of religion, we must fully and frankly...
The Book
A Humble Quest into the Hebrew Scriptures
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Joseph Heskel Koukou | Born in Basra, Joseph Heskel Koukou was ten years old when his family settled in Iran. As a businessman, his life was intertwined with that of his Jewish community and the rapport of friendship he held with all groups, independently of their religion, of their culture and their...
Zayis Ra’Anan
The Gift of the Fresh Olive
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
At a festive gathering on the second day of the Succoth holiday, 2009, seventeen year old Sholom Bnayahu Werther related a piece of Talmudic lore to his family.
With uncharateristic gusto and passion, he explained how the olive is a metaphor for the destiny of the Jewish people. Thirty hours...
by DORIS ABSTON-WHITE
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This book uncovers the hidden deceptive programming of religion that has kept people in a life of lack, unhappiness, fear, shortage, insufficiency, sickness, and premature death. This book reveals the secrets that profoundly affect how our spirit creates the physical world. Are you looking for the...