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Language
English
Description
Many people seek solace in religion, but what if, rather than showing us to a higher truth, religion blinkers us to the real world we live in? Trying to nurture our souls, we may instead become caught in the trappings of organised religion and charismatic spiritual leaders. What if our religions have got it all wrong?
In a series of dialogues, Vijay Narain Shankar and Bill K. Koul provoke and prompt each other to bring their open-minded questioning...
Publisher
Gale Research
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Explores life in the Civil War era between 1850 and 1877 from the perspectives of world events, the arts, business and the economy, communications, education, government and politics, law and justice, religion, science and medicine, sports and recreation, and lifestyles, and includes a chronology of world events.
3) Jihad 2.0
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For nearly two years, an extraordinary effective terrorist propaganda has been flooding the Internet. Through an unfailing control over social networks and the mass production of ultra-violent footage enhanced by special effects and edited like rap music videos, the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) terrorists have been hammering their hateful message.. How did the Internet become, and in such a short time, some kind of travel agency promoting...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving -- or even discussing -- divisive issues: "A timely masterpiece." -- Patricia S. Churchland, author of Touching a Nerve Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, disputed concepts,...
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"The second half of the insightful anthology of essays and book chapters from the American technical philosopher. In addition to being one of the greatest technical philosophers of the twentieth century, John Dewey (1859 -- 1952) was an educational innovator, a Progressive Era reformer, and one of America's last great public intellectuals. Dewey's insights into the problems of public education, immigration, the prospects for democratic government,...
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