Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Roger Housden
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
A Compelling Exploration of the Emerging Secular Spirituality
What is faith? It is not something we must receive from a religion, nor is it a quality we must abandon in order to be rational. "Faith is not the same as belief," writes bestselling author Roger Housden. "A nonreligious...
Selling Spirituality
The Silent Takeover of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism.
Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how...
by Philip Sheldrake
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
It has been suggested that 'spirituality' has become a word that 'can define an era'. Why? Because paradoxically, alongside a decline in traditional religious affiliations, the growing interest in spirituality and the use of the word in a variety of contexts is a striking aspect of contemporary western...
Spirituality for Recovering Addicts
And for Anyone Seeking Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Many people have confused spirituality with religion. Religion and spirituality are not the same. As Father Bulwith says, I found God in AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, and not the church. True spirituality encompasses ones whole being. This book will give you new concepts of spirituality. It will offer...
Listening to The Echo
young adults talk about religion, spirituality, God, gods and their world
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Why do so few young people attend church? Why are Jewish and Muslim millennials so disenchanted with religion? Why are young adult Catholics so angry? How can parents, grandparents, and religious leaders understand the younger generation’s widespread rejection of institutional religion? Tom Sherwood...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this volume comprehensively examines the psychological processes associated with religion and spirituality. Leading scholars from multiple psychological subdisciplines present developmental, cognitive, social psychological, cultural, and clinical perspectives...
by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Spirituality is the magical word that gives mankind a feeling of divine bliss. It’s a sensation that often surpasses all the regulations of conventional religious beliefs. Apparently the sensation of spirituality brings a kind of strength and confidence in human personality and also keeps one calm...
Christian Goddess Spirituality
Enchanting Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This monograph focuses on "Christian Goddess Spirituality" (CGS), the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis’s study provides ethnographic data and analysis on the lived religious experience of CGS practitioners,...
Paging God
Religion in the Halls of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of survival by their doctors, how...
The Persistence of Religion
Comparative Perspectives on Modern Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
In the nineteenth century, Nietzsche famously announced that God was dead. In the twentieth century, an increasing reliance on science and technology led to a widespread rejection of belief on the grounds of its irrationality. Yet for all the scepticism directed towards it, religion has not died....
Every Path Leads Homes
Opening to Your Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
"Every Path Leads Home, Opening to Your Spiritual Journey" is a book about religious tolerance, religious freedom, and the ability to choose what religious path you want to follow--even if that path is no path. Many people have been hurt, disappointed or abused by religion or the religious, and "Every...
The Rise of Liberal Religion
Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Best First Book Prize of the American Society of Church History Society for U. S. Intellectual History Notable Title in American Intellectual History The story of liberal religion in the twentieth century, Matthew S. Hedstrom contends, is a story of cultural...
by Fr. Seraphim Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The psychic phenomena of today are symptoms of the emergence of a new spirituality that is molding the world religion of the future—phenomena such as Yoga, Zen, Tantra, Transcendental Meditation, Guru Maharaj-ji, Hare Krishna, UFO’s, the Charismatic Movement, and Jonestown. “None...
The Metaphysical World of Isaac Newton
Alchemy, Prophecy, and the Search for Lost Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Newton’s heretical yet equation-incisive writings on theology, spirituality, alchemy, and prophecy, written in secret alongside his Principia Mathematica
• Shows how Newton’s brilliance extended far beyond math and science into alchemy, spirituality, prophecy, and the search for lost...