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Author: Titus Hjelm Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136854134 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 269
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Although students and scholars of social problems have often acknowledged the role of religion, no thorough examinations of the relation between the two have emerged. This book fills this gap by providing a definitive work on the impact of religion on social problems, religion as a solution to social problems, and religion as a social problem in itself.
Author: Titus Hjelm Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136854134 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 269
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Although students and scholars of social problems have often acknowledged the role of religion, no thorough examinations of the relation between the two have emerged. This book fills this gap by providing a definitive work on the impact of religion on social problems, religion as a solution to social problems, and religion as a social problem in itself.
Author: Thomas Dixon Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781020906459 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Religion and social science are two of the most important disciplines for understanding human behavior and society, and this volume explores the complex and often overlapping issues that arise between them. Written by Thomas Dixon, a leading expert in the field, the book offers a range of perspectives on topics such as the relationship between religion and politics, the role of religion in social change, and the challenges facing religious communities in the modern world. Whether you are a student of religion or social science, or simply interested in the intersection of these two fields, this book is a must-read. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Stephen T. Asma Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190469692 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 273
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How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.
Author: Thomas Dixon Publisher: ISBN: 9781331697060 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 266
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Excerpt from Living Problems: In Religion and Social Science These condensed sermons and addresses are given to the public, with the hope and prayer that they may prove as helpful to a wide circle of readers as they seem to have been to those who first heard them delivered extempore. The treatment I have tried to make fresh and suggestive, rather than profound, or exhaustive. I owe much to the great thinkers of ancient and modern times; but what I have used from them, I trust has first passed through, and become a part of, my own heart and life. The addresses on current questions of Social Science were delivered before mass meetings in Boston and New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Thomas Dixon Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230860855 Category : Languages : en Pages : 44
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...We learn, too, that God never strikes a child in anger, but always in love, and through the pain leads up to higher good. Such indeed is the universal symbolism of pain as expressed in various forms of the thought of the world, and in the work of nature, for through the agonies of maternity life is ushered into the world. When a common man is to be elevated to the dignity of knighthood, he receives three heavy strokes of the sword. Such is the thought that is interwoven in the rites, ceremonies, and initiatory observances of your various lodges, fraternities, and secret societies. This great truth is a real part of the higher and purer thought of the world to-day. As I said in the beginning, I speak of the pain that falls upon the good as thus being educational. God does hate sin and does punish it here and hereafter by merciless pain. But I need not dwell upon this--you see it everywhere. Look into the judgment halls of sin, where God, man, and nature pronounce sentence upon the sinner. " Lazar-houses reeking with putrefaction and death, hospitals and asylums swarming with maniacs, whose cells echo with sigh, and shriek, and groan--dungeons, cages, and grated cells where guilt rots and raves, these, all these, and more, are but the feeble echoes of the truth 'Sin reigns unto Death! ' " But we have here the higher mission of pain. It is hard to understand it all sometimes--there is din and roar and confusion as we look about us, but we know that harmony is the great end. If you should go down town into one of the organ factories, you would hear the grating of ponderous machinery, the din and crash and roar of hammer and plane and saw, as out of the rude wood and steel and brass were being wrought the various pieces...
Author: Thomas Dixon Publisher: Scholar's Choice ISBN: 9781298378767 Category : Languages : en Pages : 264
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Jerry A. Coyne Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0143108263 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 338
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“A superbly argued book.” —Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion The New York Times bestselling author of Why Evolution is True explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail In this provocative book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion—including faith, dogma, and revelation—leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions. Coyne is responding to a national climate in which more than half of Americans don’t believe in evolution, members of Congress deny global warming, and long-conquered childhood diseases are reappearing because of religious objections to inoculation, and he warns that religious prejudices in politics, education, medicine, and social policy are on the rise. Extending the bestselling works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, he demolishes the claims of religion to provide verifiable “truth” by subjecting those claims to the same tests we use to establish truth in science. Coyne irrefutably demonstrates the grave harm—to individuals and to our planet—in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in. Praise for Faith Versus Fact: “A profound and lovely book . . . showing that the honest doubts of science are better . . . than the false certainties of religion.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith
Author: Titus Hjelm
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