Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
Religion and Spirituality for Diverse Women: Foundations of Strength and Resilience
Foundations of Strength and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Religion and spirituality are sources of strength and resilience for many women, particularly ethnically diverse women. This thought-provoking text examines this psychological trend, exploring the specific ways in which women from diverse backgrounds have benefited from their faith traditions, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book presents an integrated review and critical analysis of the recent research in the positive psychology of religion, with focus on the positive psychology of religion across different cultures and religions. The book provides a review of the literature on different contributions of religion...
by Erich Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
An exploration of what religion and spirituality mean to us as humans, by the New York Times–bestselling author and social psychologist.
In 1950, Erich Fromm attempted to free religion from its social function and to develop a new understanding of religious phenomena. Rather than analyzing...
Spiritual Evolution
A Scientific Defense of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that the danger is in religion itself. God, Hitchens writes, is not...
by Robin Sacredfire
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
I do not notice much change between those that are in one religion or another, from the most popular to the most secretive. In general, all religions promote one truth, that very few are able to acknowledge or recognize, even when spending their entire life inside a certain path, no matter how advanced...
Spirituality in the Flesh
Bodily Sources of Religious Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
It is now generally accepted that the structure and function of the human body deeply influence the nature of human thought. As a consequence, our religious experiences are at least partially determined by our sensory organs, emotional programs, sexual sensibilities, and the neural framework of our...
A Balm for Gilead
Meditations on Spirituality and the Healing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
Once rarely discussed in medical circles, the relationship between spirituality and health has become an important topic in health care. This change is evidenced in courses on religion and medicine taught in most medical schools, articles in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, and conferences...
by Harold Koenig, Dana King, Verna B. Carson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
The Handbook of Religion and Health has become the seminal research text on religion, spirituality, and health, outlining a rational argument for the connection between religion and health. The Second Edition completely revises and updates the first edition. Its authors are physicians: a psychiatrist...
Sex and the Sacred
Gay Identity and Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A down-to-earth look at the spiritual power of sex
Sex and the Sacred examines the spiritual dimension of human sexuality in a way that is free of religious affiliation but still open to traditional religion and belief in God. Dr. Daniel Helminiak, author of the best-selling What the Bible...
Sophia Geography
Exploring Spirituality, Landscape and Archetypes
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
"TELL ME YOUR LANDSCAPE and I will tell you who you are." We are defined by our landscapes, as the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset said . Yet this book shows that it is the archetypes which are behind our landscapes , which permeate our values and inform our spirituality. These form our inner...
by Diana L. Villegas
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Based on exploration of boundaries between spirituality and religion, this book argues that theological study of spirituality is important for interpretation of the Christian path in a pluralistic world. As a text for graduate study in spirituality and ministry, it explores relevant sociological studies,...
Non Nobis, Domine
Religion, Spirituality, Mathematics and Physics in the Light of the Postulate of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Non Nobis, Domine, from the author of The Axioms of Being and the Renaissance of the Templars Religion and spirituality have been portrayed as products of superstition and fear of the unknown. The tenets of religion are considered to be the antithesis of science. Science, on the other hand, is knowledge...
by Dada Bhagwan, Dr. Niruben Amin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Those seeking to lead a spiritual life inevitably face challenges in their pursuit of spirituality and practice. As spiritual development progresses, facing one’s faults, failures, and unintentional mistakes become disconcerting – even for the most sincere seeker.
One may then ask, “What...
Spirituality, Inc.
Religion in the American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
For many Americans spirituality and business seem to be polar opposites: one is concerned with lofty questions of ultimate significance, the other with mundane matters of the daily grind. Yet over the last two decades the two have become increasingly linked, and as the barriers between them are broken...