Religious category: 31793 books

What if your brother was the most controversial figure in the history of the world and your job was to protect him? That’s the challenge faced by the Rabbi James of Jerusalem — whom the Bible identifies as “the brother of the Lord” — in MY BROTHER’S KEEPER, an inspired retelling of the Christian...

For too long, critiques of religious thought have been delivered exclusively in clinical scientific terms, intentionally stripped of emotion by the nature of analysis. The trouble with that approach is that to argue only by science or reason is to implicitly concede to religions that their positions...

In the last two decades, the phenomenon of terrorism, also known as 'the Scourge of the Century', has spread to many areas and taken new and disturbing dimensions. Unfortunately, it is widely acknowledged that the cause of the most dominant form of today's terrorism lies in the deviant or misguided...

Happy Science University (HSU) is a religious institution for higher education, founded with an aim to create a new civilization. The founder, Master Ryuho Okawa, passionately talks about the founding spirit of HSU and the challenge of religious Truth. He aspires to reorganize academic discipline based...

A Philosophy of Christian Materialism offers a new religious engagement with the public sphere via means of interdisciplinary analysis and empirical examples, developing what the authors call a Relational Christian Realism building upon interaction with contemporary Philosophy of Religion. The book...

Spirituality through Art and Poetry can be observed both in a religious setting and in a less religious orientation, although both views may be spiritual. Therefore in the following illustrations the material is intended for both a religious context and a non-religious context. In all there are thirty two presentations.

An important part of philosophy is concerned with religious questions. What is the meaning of life, and how might religious faith or doubt impact such meaning? What is the evidence for the existence of God? Is evidence essential for religious faith? What is the relationship between science and religion?...

A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was one of the most effective black trade unionists in America. Once known as "the most dangerous black man in America," he was a radical journalist, a labor leader, and a pioneer of civil rights strategies. His protegé...

In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history...

The Philosophy of Immortality discusses natural and supernatural ways of achieving Immortality and Afterlife, with the emphasis on the natural one. There are many possible Philosophies of Immortalities – the version described in this book is called ‘NINAVISM’. It tries to reconcile Immortalities...

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...

A fascinating collection of essays by leading scholars in the field engage with the idea of religious pluralism mooted by John Hick to offer incisive insights on religious pluralism and related themes and to address practical aspects such as interreligious spirituality and worship in a multi-faith context.

This book is animated by a shared conviction that philosophy of religion needs to change: thirteen new essays suggest why and how. The first part of the volume explores possible changes to the focus of the field. The second part focuses on the standpoint from which philosophers of religion should...

The Satapatha Brahmana, Part I by Julius Eggeling THE translator of the Satapatha-brâhmana can be under no illusion as to the reception his production is likely to meet with at the hand of the general reader. In the whole range of literature few works are probably less calculated to excite...