Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In recent years, there has been growing awareness across a range of academic disciplines of the value of exploring issues of religion and the sacred in relation to cultures of everyday life. Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age offers inter-disciplinary perspectives drawing from theology,...
Religion and Reality TV
Faith in Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Why is reality television flourishing in today's expanding media market? Religion and Reality TV: Faith in Late Capitalism argues that the reality genre offers answers to many of life's urgent questions: Why am I important? What gives my life meaning? How do I present my best self to the world? Case...
Religion, NGOs and the United Nations
Visible and Invisible Actors in Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace? What processes do they adopt? Is there a “spiritual” UN today? This book is the first interdisciplinary study to present extensive fieldwork results from an examination of the activity...
Religion, Gender, and Industry
Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
What part did religion play in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain? How did the local situation differ from the national picture? What was the role of women in society and the church? And how did the emerging centers of industrial activity interact with the places in which they sprung...
The Redcoat and Religion
The Forgotten History of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the...
Jacob Neusner on Religion
The Example of Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Jacob Neusner was a prolific and innovative contributor to the study of religion for over fifty years. A scholar of rabbinic Judaism, Neusner regarded Jewish texts as data to address larger questions in the academic study of religion that he helped to formulate. Jacob Neusner on Religion offers the...
by Dr Pranav Pandya
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Spirituality deals with enlightening one’s thoughts, emotions and intrinsic tendencies. In simple terms it is the most evolved and comprehensive science of psychological, sociological and moral development, and ultimate progress. It brightens the intellect together with inculcation of sensitivity...
by Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston)
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
In ‘Rivers of Green Wisdom’ the author shares personal reflections on Christian, Yogic and Earth centred wisdom and key stages encountered on his own spiritual journey. This book unveils central teachings about the sacredness of Earth and Nature, covers both past and present understanding about...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
There is currently much discussion regarding the causes of terrorist acts, as well as the connection between terrorism and religion. Terrorism is attributed either to religious 'fanaticism' or, alternately, to political and economic factors, with religion more or less dismissed as a secondary factor....
Lay Spirituality
From Traditional to Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Laypeople have a special mission in the church the way they have a special mission in society. In popular devotions the laity created a form of spirituality that lasted for over a millennium. Popular religiosity is alive in Latin America and in US ethnic subcultures. Vatican II redirected lay spirituality...
Dying to Religion and Empire
Giving up Our Religious Rites and Legal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Can Christianity exist without religious rites or legal rights?
Are baptism and communion required for the church to exist?
What about the freedom of religion and the right to assemble?
Building on what he has written in other volumes of the “Close Your Church for Good” series,...
Religion erleben
Ein Arbeitsbuch für den Religionsunterricht -
Language: German
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Nur wer Religion erlebt, kann auch etwas über Religion lernen
Religionsunterricht sollte mehr sein als nur Reden über Religion. Denn Religion muss man erleben, um sie zu verstehen. Doch Kinder und Jugendliche bringen heute oft kaum noch religiöse Erfahrungen mit. In 20 Kapiteln zeigt der...
For the Civic Good
The Liberal Case for Teaching Religion in the Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Why teach about religion in public schools? What educational value can such courses potentially have for students?
In For the Civic Good, Walter Feinberg and Richard A. Layton offer an argument for the contribution of Bible and world religion electives. The authors argue that such courses can,...
The Common Christianity: God's Undefiled True Religion
The Common Christianity, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Christianity is the largest religion in the world today with over 2 billion followers all calling themselves Christians. Christianity in the past suffered violence and a lot of wars were fought in the name of Christianity. Although Jesus Christ name brings peace, we have seen where the name Christianity...