Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Lee Hager, Steven Hager
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Fear permeates our world. Fear is a thief that robs us of the peace and happiness we all desire. Science and religion have each had the opportunity to solve the problems that keep humanity in a state of fear, but they’ve both failed. Why? Instead of working together for the greater good, they’ve...
The Spirituality of Comedy
Comic Heroism in a Tragic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
To understand comedy is to understand humanity, for the comic sense is central to what it means to be human. Nearly all the major issues with which human beings have exercised themselves are touched upon in some manner by the comic spirit. Yet education in the art of comedy and in comic appreciation...
Sacrificial Ceremonies of Santería
A Complete Guide to the Rituals and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The first book to explore the history, methods, and thinking behind sacrifice in the growing Santería faith
• Explains the animal sacrifice ceremony in step-by-step detail
• Shares the ancient African sacred stories that reveal the well-thought-out metaphysics and spirituality behind...
The Underlying Religion
An Introduction to the Perennial Philosphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2007
The Underlying Religion is an anthology of 25 essays by 14 of the leading exponents of the “perennialist” or “traditionalist” school of comparative religious thought, associated with René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Frithjof Schuon. This school is well known for its espousal of the “transcendent...
Where to Now Saint Paul?
Why We’Re Quitting Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The Church is Dying.  Is Christianity Dying?
Absolutely Not!
The Baptists expect to lose half their churches in the next 20 years. They revamp their message, but nothing works because they cant face the real problem that plagues all churches.
According...
A God That Could Be Real
Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded readers
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Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them: too easily it can perpetuate conflict, vilify science, and undermine reason. Nancy...
New Spiritual Answers to Lifeýs Big Questions
An Introduction to New Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Do you want meaningful, inspirational answers to important questions about God, the universe, and the meaning of life?
Are you an open-minded, spiritual seeker who is willing to look outside the boundaries of traditional religions?
Then you'll want to know about new spirituality. It's...
Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes
Finding Religion in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual....
The American Soul Rush
Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical options for most people outside of the upper class or small groups of educated spiritual seekers.
Esalen Institute, a retreat for spiritual and personal...
The Great Spiritual Migration
How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the move—outgrowing old, broken religious systems and embracing new, more redemptive ways of life.
It’s time to move again.
Brian McLaren, a leading voice in contemporary religion, argues that— notwithstanding...
by Norman Wirzba
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2003
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Gen. 1:26) It has become a commonplace that Biblical...
Varieties of Secularism in Asia
Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of...
Religion in the New Age
And Other Essays for the Spiritual Seeker
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
That we live in a "New Age" seems an incontestable fact. Just 100 years ago the world had no paved highways, no speeding cars, airplanes, cell phones, washing machines, computers or satellite dishes, to name only a few things that today we take for granted. But the greatest change that has occurred has...
The Universe in a Single Atom
The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Gallileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world and in their wake have left an uneasy co-existence: science vs. religion, faith vs. empirical enquiry. Which is the keeper of truth? Which is the true path to understanding...