Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Frank Homan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
This is a short booklet which gives an in depth definition of spirituality together with a discussion of some the challenges that can come with spiritual growth. This booklet does not discuss specific spiritual growth and development techniques and does not promote any specific spiritual practice...
The Dominican Tradition
Dominican Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
St. Dominic, who died in 1221, took to heart Jesus' charge to make disciples of all nations. He founded a religious community, the Order of Preachers, which differed from most orders of his day. Dominic trained preachers who traveled anywhere and everywhere to spread the Gospel.
The Dominicans...
The Triumph of Faith
Why the World is More Religious Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The**Triumph of Faith explodes the myth that people around the world are abandoning religion. Stark marshals an incredible amount of data—surveys of more than a million people in 163 nations—to paint the full picture that both scholars and popular commentators have missed. He explains why the...
by Hesham A. Hassaballa, Kabir Helminski
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This concise introduction to Islam offers a sophisticated and informative exploration of the history, beliefs, tenets, and practices of the second-largest religion in the world.
There are 1.3 billion Muslims in the world today, yet Islam remains a misunderstood faith. In this day and age, when...
Being Alive and Having to Die
The Spiritual Odyssey of Forrest Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
One of the year's Top Ten Books on Religion and Spirituality (Booklist), Being Alive and Having to Die is the story of the remarkable public and private journey of Reverend Forrest Church, the scholar, activist, and preacher whose death became a way to celebrate life.
Through his pulpit at...
by His Holiness R.A. Gohar Shahi
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The sacred book Deen-e-Ilahi (The Religion of God) is an ultimate gift for those who strive to love God and reach the Divine nearness. This book is a vital tool in recognition of the Awaited One. It thoroughly explains the divine signs that have become prominent on various celestial and terrestrial...
Proof of the Existence of God
An Evidentiary Truth Based on Science, Moral Values, and Philology
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book is a bridge between science and religion. For much of the ancient times until the eighteenth century, all our human issues and answers were based on religion. However, from the eighteenth century onward (even though it started from the second century and peaked a bit more during the thirteenth...
The Theology of Food
Eating and the Eucharist
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as well as theology, this book unlocks the role food has played...
The Hindu Way of Awakening
Its Revelation, Its Symbol: An Essential View of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Hinduism, as it comes across in this book, is a robust, joyful religion, amazingly in step with the most advanced thinking of modern times, in love with life, deeply human as well as humane, delightfully aware of your personal life's needs–or so it seems, for the teaching in this book is no abstraction:...
The Third Desert
The Story of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Over the course of its history the Christian monastic tradition has developed a desert spirituality" of solitude, silence, and self-knowledge that fosters openness to the divine presence and its transformative power. Today the divine presence is manifesting itself anew in the "desert of...
Pilgrim
Risking the Life I Have to Find the Faith I Seek
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Lee Kravitz is adrift.
Shaken deeply after 9/11 and the loss of his job, he begins to feel the pull toward rediscovering his spirituality—a yearning long-buried since young adulthood. But in this he’s alone—his wife doesn’t understand why their family life can’t provide what he needs,...
by Nejla Demirkaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Göttingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies), course: Religion, health and medicine in India, language: English, abstract: For the past decade, the Islamic faith, especially when represented...
Speaking of Faith
Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
A thought-provoking, original appraisal of the meaning of religion by the host of public radio's On Being
Krista Tippett, widely becoming known as the Bill Moyers of radio, is one of the country's most intelligent and insightful commentators on religion, ethics, and the human spirit. With this...
by Robin Sacredfire
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
You probably think that there’s only one way to find enlightenment and it implies following a religion, a guru or a cult. Maybe you think that money and spirituality are different things that can’t be complemented or work well together. And maybe you think that you can’t get rich and become...