Author: Gideon Isaac Keirn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Essential Elements of a Living Religion
Author: Gideon Isaac Keirn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Essential Elements of a Living Religion
Author: Gideon Isaac Keirn
Publisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Publisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Religion: The Basics
Author: Malory Nye
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134059477
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The new edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes new discussions of: the study of religion and culture in the 21st century texts, films and rituals cognitive approaches to religion globalisation and multiculturalism spirituality in the West popular religion.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134059477
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The new edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes new discussions of: the study of religion and culture in the 21st century texts, films and rituals cognitive approaches to religion globalisation and multiculturalism spirituality in the West popular religion.
Religion
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691191646
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A groundbreaking new theory of religion Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book advances an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past. Drawing on the philosophy of critical realism and personalist social theory, Christian Smith explores why humans are religious in the first place—uniquely so as a species—and offers an account of secularization and religious innovation and persistence that breaks the logjam in which religious scholarship has been stuck for so long. Certain to stimulate debate and inspire promising new avenues of scholarship, Religion features a wealth of illustrations and examples that help to make its concepts accessible to readers. This superbly written book brings sound theoretical thinking to a perennially thorny subject, and a new vitality and focus to its study.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691191646
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A groundbreaking new theory of religion Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book advances an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past. Drawing on the philosophy of critical realism and personalist social theory, Christian Smith explores why humans are religious in the first place—uniquely so as a species—and offers an account of secularization and religious innovation and persistence that breaks the logjam in which religious scholarship has been stuck for so long. Certain to stimulate debate and inspire promising new avenues of scholarship, Religion features a wealth of illustrations and examples that help to make its concepts accessible to readers. This superbly written book brings sound theoretical thinking to a perennially thorny subject, and a new vitality and focus to its study.
The Meaning of Belief
Author: Tim Crane
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
“[A] lucid and thoughtful book... In a spirit of reconciliation, Crane proposes to paint a more accurate picture of religion for his fellow unbelievers.” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers a way out of this stalemate. An atheist himself, Tim Crane writes that there is a fundamental flaw with most atheists’ basic approach: religion is not what they think it is. Atheists tend to treat religion as a kind of primitive cosmology, as the sort of explanation of the universe that science offers. They conclude that religious believers are irrational, superstitious, and bigoted. But this view of religion is almost entirely inaccurate. Crane offers an alternative account based on two ideas. The first is the idea of a religious impulse: the sense people have of something transcending the world of ordinary experience, even if it cannot be explicitly articulated. The second is the idea of identification: the fact that religion involves belonging to a specific social group and participating in practices that reinforce the bonds of belonging. Once these ideas are properly understood, the inadequacy of atheists’ conventional conception of religion emerges. The Meaning of Belief does not assess the truth or falsehood of religion. Rather, it looks at the meaning of religious belief and offers a way of understanding it that both makes sense of current debate and also suggests what more intellectually responsible and practically effective attitudes atheists might take to the phenomenon of religion.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
“[A] lucid and thoughtful book... In a spirit of reconciliation, Crane proposes to paint a more accurate picture of religion for his fellow unbelievers.” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers a way out of this stalemate. An atheist himself, Tim Crane writes that there is a fundamental flaw with most atheists’ basic approach: religion is not what they think it is. Atheists tend to treat religion as a kind of primitive cosmology, as the sort of explanation of the universe that science offers. They conclude that religious believers are irrational, superstitious, and bigoted. But this view of religion is almost entirely inaccurate. Crane offers an alternative account based on two ideas. The first is the idea of a religious impulse: the sense people have of something transcending the world of ordinary experience, even if it cannot be explicitly articulated. The second is the idea of identification: the fact that religion involves belonging to a specific social group and participating in practices that reinforce the bonds of belonging. Once these ideas are properly understood, the inadequacy of atheists’ conventional conception of religion emerges. The Meaning of Belief does not assess the truth or falsehood of religion. Rather, it looks at the meaning of religious belief and offers a way of understanding it that both makes sense of current debate and also suggests what more intellectually responsible and practically effective attitudes atheists might take to the phenomenon of religion.
The Mystical Element of Religion as Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and Her Friends: Introduction and biographies
Author: Friedrich Freiherr von Hügel
Publisher:
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Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
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Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Ways of Living Religion
Author: Christina M. Gschwandtner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009476785
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This study provides a philosophical analysis of different types of religious experience, focusing on the lived experience of religion.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009476785
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This study provides a philosophical analysis of different types of religious experience, focusing on the lived experience of religion.
The Madonna of 115th Street
Author: Robert A. Orsi
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300157525
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life. "The Madonna of 115th Street has over the last quarter century become a classic of American religious history. There are few books that I have enjoyed teaching more over the years and even fewer that have taught me as much about American Catholic history."—Leigh E. Schmidt, author of Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300157525
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life. "The Madonna of 115th Street has over the last quarter century become a classic of American religious history. There are few books that I have enjoyed teaching more over the years and even fewer that have taught me as much about American Catholic history."—Leigh E. Schmidt, author of Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment
The World's Living Religions
Author: Robert Ernest Hume
Publisher:
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Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Publisher:
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Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Adoption and Hope essential elements of Christian experience. A sermon preached ... on the death of Mrs. Anne Eldred, of Beccles
Author: George WRIGHT (Baptist Minister.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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