Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
Cascadia
The Elusive Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2008
This book will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the unique culture and spirituality of the fast-growing Pacific Northwest, which includes British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. Envied by people around the world, Cascadia, as it is known, is remarkable for its famed mountains, evergreens,...
Autism and Spirituality
Psyche, Self and Spirit in People on the Autism Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Olga Bogdashina argues persuasively that, contrary to popular belief, spirituality plays a vital role in the lives of many people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Drawing on interdisciplinary research from fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, neuroscience...
George Santayana's Philosophy of Religion
His Roman Catholic Influences and Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
George Santayana (1862-1952) of Spanish descent, and generally claimed to be in the canon of American philosophers, was substantially influenced by his Roman Catholic origins in his philosophical disposition toward the value of tradition, religious symbols and dogma. His philosophical project sustained...
by Starlight Devi
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
A comprehensive, modern-day guide to spiritual living and spiritual development.
Whether you are a beginner or have already made progress, this book is practical spirituality for everyday living. It tells you what the spiritual path is and how to walk it, how to cope with everyday situations...
Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality
Ethnographic Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies.
What strategies do...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Critical Realism and Spirituality contextualizes, delineates, explores and critiques the turn to spirituality and religion in critical realism, which has been under way since the mid-1990s, as well as telling its story. It provides incisive discussion and anaysis of the following broad questions:
How...
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...
Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul
A Historical Entanglement
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Neither a book about the psychology of spirituality nor America’s ongoing turf wars between religion and science, Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul takes to task many of the presumed relationships between the two—from sharing common concerns to diametrically hostile opposites—to...
by Malcolm Goldsmith, Rosalie Hudson, Elizabeth MacKinlay
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
This publication brings together plenary addresses and other papers originally present at the Second International Conference on Ageing, Spirituality and Well-Being. The contributions are compassionate, warm and humane. The book is often insightful, frequently surprising, and can, without hesitation,...
Spirituality 101
The Indispensable Guide to Keeping—or Finding—Your Spiritual Life on Campus
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Inspiration & Information for those who want more from
college than just a degree.
Who do you want to be? Are you spiritual? Religious? Still figuring it out? Regardless of where you are, college is an intense time of choices, challenge, and growth.
Full of opportunities to learn...
That Old Devil Called God Again
The Scourge of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Religion has brought the world to the brink of meltdown. That Old Devil Called God Again shows how defenceless we are from the invading power of religious indoctrination, to which Jesus fell victim. From childhood, like unprotected computers, the predatory viruses of other people’s beliefs and dogmas...
Inner River
A Pilgrimage to the Heart of Christian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
“With his engaging blend of travelogue, conversations with a wise and charismatic spiritual father, and musings on the big questions of life and death, Professor Markides takes us as companions on his journey of discovery. The insights that he communicates with such enthusiasm are timely ones: here...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The Handbook of Religion and Society is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of a vital force in the world today. It is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the role of religion in society. This includes both the...
A Dialogue with Truth
. . . the Wise Call It by Many Names
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Today the world is witnessing greater conflicts among people of the same beliefs, religions, cultures, and ideologies. Many are fighting in the name of God and yet killing his people despite the fact that no religion flows from the barrel of a gun, and no sacred scriptures sanction the killing of...