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Author: Dieter Crowley Publisher: ISBN: 9781506017440 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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Exploring the roots of social complicity within the context of organized religion is considered universally taboo. However, basic reasoning, and compassion for our kindred journey as fellow human beings allows us to appreciate the enormous difficulty we face in thoughtfully endeavoring to rectify thousands of years of irrational, traumatizing indoctrination stemming from an ancient past that none today could remotely comprehend or relate to in all of its cruel, superstitious barbarism.
Author: Dieter Crowley Publisher: ISBN: 9781506017440 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
Exploring the roots of social complicity within the context of organized religion is considered universally taboo. However, basic reasoning, and compassion for our kindred journey as fellow human beings allows us to appreciate the enormous difficulty we face in thoughtfully endeavoring to rectify thousands of years of irrational, traumatizing indoctrination stemming from an ancient past that none today could remotely comprehend or relate to in all of its cruel, superstitious barbarism.
Author: J. Harold Ellens Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 352
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This extensive series explores themes including the seeds of violence in Biblical interpretation, human sacrifice in the Old Testament, violent religious metaphors, the violent messiah, linguistic and psychoanalytic approaches to religious themes, the jihad in context and in the Qur'an, fundamentalism and violence, and the psychoreligious roots of violence.
Author: J. Harold Ellens Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
This extensive series explores themes including the seeds of violence in Biblical interpretation, human sacrifice in the Old Testament, violent religious metaphors, the violent messiah, linguistic and psychoanalytic approaches to religious themes, the jihad in context and in the Qur'an, fundamentalism and violence, and the psychoreligious roots of violence.
Author: Phd David W. Wilbur MD Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557669502 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 229
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"My intended audience is anyone who suspects that religion might be about something other than future salvation. This manuscript is written for those believing or otherwise who, looking at ubiquitous religion, find discontinuities in claims and functions and wish to explore further how it shapes our world... This manuscript is an effort to describe how religion actually works in practice." -- Introductory Comments and Concerns.
Author: Lloyd H. Steffen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 324
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"Examining the differences between concepts of God related to ultimacy and absolutism, Steffen names absolutism as the source of destructive, life-defying religion, explaining that it is the 'central reason and the main cause for religion becoming dangerous and turning demonic'. Part I of the book explores the power and danger of religion as well as two options for being religious. Part II explores religion and the restraint of violence as it looks at the pacifist option, the case of holy war, and the case of just war."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Thomas E. Woods Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231131879 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 243
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Thomas Woods discusses the Catholic intellectual critique of modernity during the period immediately before & after the turn of the 19th century. He shows how the nonpluralistic institution of Christianity responded to an increasingly pluralistic intellectual environment.
Author: Hans Joas Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190933275 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 401
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""Disenchantment" is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly do we mean when we use this concept? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the conventional meaning or Max Weber's view really be defended, given the present state of knowledge about the history of religion? This book is an attempt to divest this concept of its enduring enchantment. The first chapters of the book deal with the three empirical disciplines history, psychology and sociology of religion to develop an understanding of religion that then lays the groundwork for what is presented in chapter 4, namely the most thorough study of Weber's views on disenchantment that has ever been undertaken. It turns out that Weber's use was highly ambiguous and that his grand narrative leading from the prophets of ancient Judaism to the crisis of meaning on the eve of the First World War collapses when we recognize this ambiguity. This makes it possible to construct an alternative that takes into account the dynamics of ever new sacralizations, their normative evaluation in the light of the values of a universalist morality and the dangers of the misuse of religion in connection with the formation of power. This book constitutes a challenge - for believers and non-believers alike"--
Author: Michael J. Altman Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 0817360298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume One is the first in a series of annual anthologies published in partnership with the Department of Religious Studies at The University of Alabama. The American Examples initiative gathers scholars from around the world for a series of workshops designed to generate big questions about the study of religion in America. Bypassing traditional white Protestant narratives in favor of new perspectives on belief, social formation, and identity, American Examples fellows offer dynamic perspectives on American faith that challenge our understandings of both America and religion as categories. In the first volume of this exciting academic project, five topically and methodologically diverse scholars vividly reimagine the potential applications of religious history. The five chapters of this inaugural volume use case studies from America, broadly conceived, to ask larger theoretical questions that are of interest to scholars beyond the subfield of American religious history. Prea Persaud's chapter explores the place of Hinduism among the "creole religions" of the Caribbean, while Hannah Scheidt captures what atheist parents say to each other about value systems. Travis Warren Cooper explains how the modernist church architecture of Columbus, Indiana, became central to that city's identity. Samah Choudhury dissects how Muslim American comedians navigate Western ideas of knowledge and self to make their jokes, and their own selves legible, and Emily D. Crews uses ethnographic fieldwork to read the female reproductive body among Nigerian Pentecostal congregations. Editor Michael J. Altman also provides a brief, rich introduction assessing the state of the discipline of religious history and how the American Examples project can lead the field forward.
Author: Dieter Crowley
Author: Dieter Crowley
Author: J. Harold Ellens
Author: J. Harold Ellens
Author: Joaquim Carvalho
Author: Phd David W. Wilbur MD
Author: J. Harold Ellens
Author: Lloyd H. Steffen
Author: Thomas E. Woods
Author: Hans Joas
Author: Michael J. Altman