Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
Religions as Brands
New Perspectives on the Marketization of Religion and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
During the twentieth century, religion has gone on the market place. Churches and religious groups are forced to 'sell god' in order to be attractive to 'religious consumers'. More and more, religions are seen as 'brands' that have to be recognizable to their members and the general public. What does...
by Max Heindel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
It is no rare occurrence to receive questions relating to Initiation, and we are also frequently asked to state whether this order or that society is genuine, and whether the initiations they offer to all comers who have the price are bona fide. For that reason it seems necessary to write a treatise...
by Adam Weishaupt
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
It's a striking feature of Protestantism that few Protestants know anything about the founder of their religion. Martin Luther is one of the most pathological figures in history. Would any sane, rational person wish to subscribe to a religion whose founder declared: "Reason is the Devil's...
Heal Thyself
Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2002
In recent years, a movement stressing a causal relationship between spirituality and good health has captured the public imagination. Told that research demonstrates that people of strong faith are healthier, physicians and clergy alike urge us to become more religious. The religion and health movement,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
"Numerous titles focusing on particular beliefs in Africa exist, including Marcel Griaule's Conversations with Ogotemmeli, but this one presents an unparallelled exploration of a multitude of cultures and experiences.It is both a gateway to deeper exploration and a penetrating resource on its...
by Kees de Groot
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Is religion dying out in Western societies? Is personal spirituality taking its place? Both stories are inadequate. Institutional religion is not simply coming to an end in Western societies. Rather, its assets and properties are redistributed: large parts of the church have gone into liquidation....
Religious Revolutionaries
The Rebels Who Reshaped American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In this clever and entertaining look at the United States and religious freedom, Robert C. Fuller introduces us to religious revolutionaries who, in very unique ways, shaped American religious tradition and fought to establish new forms of spirituality. Chronological in scope, Religious Revolutionaries...
by Stephen Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This introductory text explores the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life, through an examination of practice and belief. Author Hunt reconsiders how theories and concepts are lived at the level of selfhood and cultural identity, through religious and spiritual belief. At...
Sex and the Soul, Updated Edition
Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
First published in 2008, Donna Freitas's Sex and the Soul revealed what college students -- at institutions large and small, public and private, secular, Catholic, and evangelical -- really think about sex, dating, religion, and spirituality. Based on face-to-face interviews with students across the...
Transforming Spirituality
Integrating Theology and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
The twenty-first century has given rise to a growing interest in the intersection of science, religion, and spirituality. Few books address these issues from multiple perspectives and theories. To fill this void, F. LeRon Shults and Steven Sandage, coauthors of The Faces of Forgiveness (winner of...
by Tim Schumacher
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
This book contains information that can help you make decisions about what and who to believe, or not believe, and why. Religions, which are human inventions, ultimately fail to deliver what they most claim to seek: universal peace and harmony. Instead, they always seem to become instruments of conflict...
Reality
A Scientific Kingdom of God
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
America is in a multi-cultural crisis. We are straying from our God given roots. We have seen the consequences building for eight years. In horror, the rural roots and working-class America recoiled, and as a consequence, God gave us a working-class billionaire, and here we are. What shall we do?...
by Raymond Arroyo Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Lead Us Not Into Temptation is a spiritual book as given to me by God. This book is different from other spiritual books in that it connects man with his sole link to God and that is through his own soul. Regardless of ones religion or persuasion, this book is for all people to find their way back...
Atheist Meditation Atheist Spirituality
Summary Version
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Finally, a book about meditation and meaning in life that is based on reason, not religious or supernatural explanations... Provocative and truly inspirational! One of the best books I've ever read.-Rachel Patel
We think we perceive reality, but we live in our minds, in self-created realities,...