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Faithful Measures
New Methods in the Measurement of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A venture into the art and science of measuring religion in everyday life
In an era of rapid technological advances, the measures and methods used to generate data about religion have undergone remarkably little change. Faithful Measures pushes the study of religion into the 21st century by...
by Raymond Firth
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Religion: A Humanist Interpretation represents a lifetime's work on the anthropology of religion from a rather unusual personal viewpoint. Raymond Firth treats religion as a human art, capable of great intellectual and artistic achievements, but also of complex manipulation to serve the human interests...
Religion in the Public Sphere
Canadian Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The place of religion in the public realm is the subject of frequent and lively debate in the media, among academics and policymakers, and within communities. With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices...
Religion and Progressive Activism
New Stories About Faith and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
New stories about religiously motivated progressive activism challenge common understandings of the American political landscape.
To many mainstream-media saturated Americans, the terms “progressive” and “religious” may not seem to go hand-in-hand. As religion is usually tied to conservatism,...
by Russell Sandberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
The worlds of law and religion increasingly collide in Parliament and the courtroom. Religious courts, the wearing of religious symbols and faith schools have given rise to increased legislation and litigation. This is the first student textbook to set out the fundamental principles and issues of...
Religion Without Redemption
Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The world’s eyes are on Latin America as a place of radical political inspiration and as an alternative to the neoliberal model. Each country in the region deals differently in its method of government, yet there are common cultural themes that tie the continent’s trajectory together. Religion...
Ethnicity and Religion
Intersections and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Religion has regained political prominence in the twenty first century and not least for the manner in which it intersects with ethnicity. Many ethnic conflicts have a strong religious dimension, and religion appears as a powerful force for mobilisation, solidarity and violence. Religion and ethnicity...
Law and Religion in the 21st Century
Relations between States and Religious Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book brings together leading international scholars of law and religion to provide an overview of current issues in State-religion relations. The first part of the collection offers a picture of recent developments in key countries and regions. The second part is focused on Europe and, in particular,...
by Gary B. Ferngren, Ekaterina N. Lomperis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Gary B. Ferngren and Ekaterina N. Lomperis have gathered a rich collection of annotated primary sources that illustrate the intersection of medicine and religion. Intended as a companion volume to Ferngren’s classic Medicine and Religion, which traces the history of the relationship of medicine...
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Robert Nelson’s Reaching for Heaven on Earth, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America read almost like a trilogy, exploring and charting the boundaries of theology and economics from the Western foundations of ancient...
The Warfare between Science and Religion
The Idea That Wouldn't Die
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The "conflict thesis"—the idea that an inevitable and irreconcilable conflict exists between science and religion—has long been part of the popular imagination. In The Warfare between Science and Religion, Jeff Hardin, Ronald L. Numbers, and Ronald A. Binzley have assembled a group of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Writing History, Constructing Religion presents a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of debates among historians, scholars of religion and cultural theorists over the 'nature' of history to the study of religion. The distinguished authors discuss issues related to definitions...
Converging Paths to Truth
The Summerhays Lectures on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Are science and religion in conflict with one another, or do they support each other? Does one's belief and allegiance to science discredit or disavow religion - or vice versa? Many great scientists such as Newton and Einstein spoke and wrote freely of their religious thoughts and feelings, seeing...
God, Freud and Religion
The origins of faith, fear and fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
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Did God create man or did man create God? In this book, Dianna Kenny examines religious belief through a variety of perspectives – psychoanalytic, cognitive, neuropsychological, sociological, historical and psychiatric – to provide a coherent account of why people...