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A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are influenced by, the wider socio-political environment.
After introducing the book's major themes, the volume introduces and builds upon an analysis of Weber's...
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The current social and political climate makes it easy to benefit from religious misunderstanding. Political and religious leaders create fear of the religious other in order to drum up support for themselves. But the best way to combat deliberate misrepresentation is to provide accurate, timely information about the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Originally published in 2007, What Do Our Neighbors Believe?...
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The study of religion in American higher education is fraught with difficulties that raise important questions about the nature of faith and the purpose of advanced learning. Although religion has been foundational to some of the United States' most prestigious universities, religious studies is a relatively recent addition to the liberal arts curriculum. As a result, students often take courses in religion with expectations that exceed what professors...
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An enlightening look at the surprising connections between spirituality and progressive thought in the United States. Religious liberalism in America is often associated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. This book, however, draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America's religious movements. The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and boundaries to interrogate religious liberalism's dense cultural...
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"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions... Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review
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In God's Mechanics, Brother Guy tells the stories of those who identify with the scientific mindsetso-called "techies"while practicing religion. A full fledged techie himself, he relates some classic philosophical reflections, his interviews with dozens of fellow techies, and his own personal take on his Catholic beliefs to provide, like a set of "worked out sample problems," the hard data on the challenges and joys of embracing a life of faith...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Kate Townsend knew she would lob an incendiary device into the contemporary culture if she wrote and published her series, Corrupting America's Children: Creating Chemical Eunuchs. But because of what she'd witnessed in her son's pre-kindergarten, she felt obligated to do it.
In a remarkable convergence of events, Lindsey McCall is also drawn into the explosive world of transgender politics. For the...
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Secular science demands we accept the philosophical dogma of scientific materialism-that only material entities exist. Yet recent science has discovered the immaterial!
Also mandated is the assumption that all things must be explained by natural causes. But we now are certain that the universe had a beginning. There was a time when "nature" didn't exist-and yet we must attribute the origin of the universe to nature!
And what about Darwin's theory...
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Beyond the Iceberg: A Case for Emotional Healing presents a step-by-step investigation into human nature, considering why so many people get angry, producing an intense response without any good reason. Through her experience and professional studies, author Dr. Christine Onu offers antidotes to those hidden reasons causing people appear to be sick when there is no actual sickness. There are many problems plaguing society today for which the root...
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John Warwick Montgomery beautifully highlights how modern psychiatric treatment has lost its mind! Contemporary forms of psychotherapy are, soulless- psychological and spiritual problems require a transcendent solution, as Montgomery nicely documents. No citation of Freud, Jung, or Albert Schweitzer in his flawed diagnosis of Jesus will never be the same as quoting Holy Scripture. Dr. Montgomery' s latest book is a fresh movement of the Spirit of...
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This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent...
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By the twentieth century, science had become so important that religious traditions had to respond to it. Emerging religions, still led by a living founder to guide them, responded with a clarity and focus that illuminates other larger, more established religions' understandings of science. The Hare Krishnas, the Unification Church, and Heaven's Gate each found distinct ways to incorporate major findings of modern American science, understanding it...
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Examining other religions provides Christians the opportunity to more deeply understand their own beliefs. Learning about other religions is not the same as learning from other religions, which can have great value to Christians who wish to strengthen their faith. In this book's ten easy-to-read chapters, Wogaman shows readers what Christians can learn from different religions, such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and even from atheism. From...
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This book is a quest to look at the history of mankind to answer questions that humans wondered about for centuries. What does God want from us? Why are there so many religions? Who did the ancients worship if it wasn't God?
This book is a quest through history, religion, and science to answer these questions and more. It will prove beyond any doubt that there is a creator and he's one and the message he's been sending through the times using...
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SynopsisThis is a very much beautiful book about Krishna. He was a God and people believe that his existence is now also in this world. Krishna tells that he is in everywhere. Krishna is so much powerful and strong. This book is all things about Krishna and his life.I have done research in many sources as well as I bring this beautiful truth about Krishna. All the things I have found here is a true and all the things as well as evidences proves that...
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The Cross & The Crib.
When Calvary Becomes the Nursery.
A Journey of Discovery with Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen!
In this special collection of New York Times best-selling author Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen works, the reader will find some timely reflections on the seven last words our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ spoke from His Cross on Calvary and the seven times recorded in sacred scripture where His Mother spoke.
Valuable insights into...
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"I surrender all" Three simple words hold a meaning few understand.
This book is a journey into the depths of what "I surrender all" means. I share eleven personal testimonies that demonstrate that no matter what season of life you are in that you are never outside of God's guiding hand.
He will use your greatest triumphs and failures for His glory. Surrender is giving up everything that you are and trusting God God in who He is. Who you...
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"Guardián de la Sanación: Tras los Pasos de Babalú Ayé" es una cautivadora novela que se sumerge en el misterioso mundo de Babalú Ayé, una deidad venerada en la religión yoruba. La historia sigue los pasos de un devoto seguidor en su viaje espiritual y físico para descubrir los secretos ocultos detrás de la figura de Babalú Ayé.En un viaje que abarca desde las vibrantes calles de una ciudad contemporánea hasta los rincones más remotos...
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"El Legado de Nana Buruku: Entretejiendo los Hilos de la Creación y la Fertilidad" invita a los lectores a adentrarse en el fascinante mundo de la religión yoruba, explorando la rica mitología que rodea a la venerada deidad Nana Buruku. A través de las páginas de este libro, los lectores descubrirán la historia, los mitos y la influencia de Nana Buruku en la cosmogonía yoruba.La narrativa se sumerge en la antigüedad, desentrañando la conexión...