Author: Archibald Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316697705
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 635

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Gathers selections from the writings of Camus, Nietzsche, Freud, Einstein, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Solzhenitsyn, Yu-Lan Feng, and Dorothy Day

Author: Catalin Negru
Publisher: Catain Negru
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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In every belief system spiritual entities have been labeled as good if they have acted in favor to people and as evil if they have threatened their existence. Furthermore, protective actions and dangerous actions have been classified as such based on the beholder’s level of understanding of order and chaos. Evil entities spread chaos that endangers people’s existence, while good entities create order that preserves human life.

Author: Margaret Chatterjee
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349053651
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Author: James Watson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491737581
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Religion is a small word, but it has a huge impact on both life and death. In Religious Thoughts, author James Watson takes a look at the history of religion through the years and delves into how the various manmade religions were formed and why. Through this historical exploration of religious texts, Watson addresses a host of questions addressing religion, its origins, and its mutations. Religious Thoughts asks: Why, in the beginning, were just three major religions formed? Why were the minor religionssuch as Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterianstarted? Did these religions coincide with or cause directly or indirectly major military conflicts? How did religion become so diverse and corrupt? Why and how did the manmade religions evolve? Thoroughly researched, Religious Thoughts asks a wide range of thought-provoking questions and presents Watsons opinions and concerns. It presents a historical time travel through centuries of religious changes, documenting the history of the Abrahamic religions.

Author: Douglas Campbell (of Edinburgh.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Hyacinth Kalu
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462026753
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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This book is a collection of essays on religious thoughts across various religious traditions and belief systems in the world. It covers essays on Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, African Traditional Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy of Religion from a comparative perspective. It offers the reader an insight into the thoughts of these religions, where they relate to each other and how they differ from each because of many factors, which include cultural background. An understanding of this nature in very important in interfaith, interreligious and intra-religious relationships aimed at fostering better understanding and appreciation of our diversities, towards building harmonious relationships among followers of various religions thereby reducing religious/global tensions occasioned by intolerance, misunderstanding and/or ignorance of other peoples religious beliefs and traditions.

Author: Pascal Boyer
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 046500461X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" and "Why is religion the way it is?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Boyer shows how one of the most fascinating aspects of human consciousness is increasingly admissible to coherent, naturalistic explanation. And Man Creates God tells readers, for the first time, what religious feeling is really about, what it consists of, and how it originates. It is a beautifully written, very accessible book by an anthropologist who is highly respected on both sides of the Atlantic. As a scientific explanation for religious feeling, it is sure to arouse controversy.

Author: Thoughts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: Arthur Allen Cohen
Publisher: New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1188

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A collection of 140 essays by renowned figures on the fundamental concepts, beliefs and movements in historical and contemporary Jewish thought. Charity, chosen people, death, culture, family, freedom, history, love, immortality, myth, prayer, science, tradition and Torah are among the subjects addressed in this handbook of Jewish experience and thought.