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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
""[A] useful, well-edited anthology of important texts in the history of the intersection of religion and medicine." -Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Divinity School Gary B. Ferngren and Ekaterina N. Lomperis have gathered a rich collection of annotated primary sources that illustrate the intersection of medicine and religion. Intended as a companion volume to Ferngren's classic Medicine and Religion , which traces...
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Publisher
IPC Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Why are all the major religions consumed with sex? What makes sex so important whether Buddhism or Islam, Christianity or Mormonism? What is the impact of religion on human sexuality? This book explores this and more. It ventures into territory that has never been examined. You will be surprised at how much religion has influenced your sexuality, who you marry, the pleasure you get or don't get from sex and what you can do about it.
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Up-to-date, well-documented, comprehensive coverage of cults, sects, and world religions, from the historical to the contemporary INCLUDE, Well-known groups and world religions, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Islam, and Baha', Groups with a significant North American influence, including Santeria, Rastafarians, Haitian Voodo, white supremacy groups, Wicca, and Satanism REVISED, UPDATED, AND EXPANDED TO INCLUDE NEW ENTRIES AND NEW INFORMATIO,...
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Language
English
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Dr. Joseph Murphy was an Irish born, naturalized American author and New Thought minister, ordained in Divine Science and Religious Science. In Nuclear Religion, he states that your mindset allows you to be rich or be poor. You think positive thoughts if you are a person with a lot of money or you come up with a lot of sorry excuses for not having as much as you desire. It is all in the mind. You can be a person who lives in a ditch or one who lives...
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Publisher
Philosophical Library/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive reference guide to religious cults of the ancient world, with essential information on religious systems, texts, temple sites, and more.
Dictionary of Pagan Religions offers a wide-ranging survey of the many religious cults that have flourished around the world from the Stone Age to the present. From Egyptian to Celtic traditions, and Gnosticism to Cabala, coauthors Harry E. Wedeck and Wade Baskin have compiled in-depth information...
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Publisher
Middleway Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Human revolution--the inner transformation of the individual that produces actual change in their lives--is a defining concept of Nichiren Buddhism, practiced by millions worldwide. In this series of lectures, Daisaku Ikeda breaks down twelve key aspects of human revolution and provides inspiration and guidance for people to find peace and happiness for themselves and others."Changing our heart is not a matter of doing something that will only temporarily...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The author compares Celtic mythology and religion with the beliefs of early Scandinavian society. Vikings and Norsemen who raided British shores ruled parts of Britain for centuries. The religion of the Scandinavians was the same as the religious beliefs and practices of their fellow Teutonic and Germanic tribes, and their chief deities and religious rituals were like those of Teutonic people anywhere.
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Publisher
TAN Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This book, [Benson] writes, "is intended for the 'man in the street,' who, after all, has a certain claim on our consideration, since Jesus Christ came to save his soul." And for the man in the street, the greatest obstacle to accepting the truth of the Catholic Faith lies not in an intellectual inability to understand the arguments of the most sophisticated of theologians, but-as G.K. Chesterton argued in Orthodoxy-the loss of the imaginative ability...
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Publisher
W.B. Eerdmans
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age is a superb introduction to the principal Western religions and their philosophical counterparts from the beginnings of Alexander the Great's empire in 331 B.C.E. to the emergence of the Christian world in the fourth century C. E. Anton?a Tripolitis, a noted scholar of Late Antiquity, examines the rise of the Hellenistic-Roman world and presents a comprehensive overview of its beliefs and practices, their socio-psychological...
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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Up-to-date one-volume edition of a standard text For decades students and scholars have turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in America for access to the most significant primary sources relating to American religious history from the sixteenth century to the present. This fourth edition--published in a single volume for the first time--has been updated and condensed, allowing instructors to more easily cover the material in a...
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Publisher
Pitchstone Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Just as intelligent design is not a legitimate branch of biology in public educational institutions, nor should the philosophy of religion be a legitimate branch of philosophy. So argues acclaimed author John W. Loftus in this forceful takedown of the very discipline in which he was trained. In his call for ending the philosophy of religion, he argues that, as it is presently being practiced, the main reason the discipline exists is to serve the faith...
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New Academia Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"An eminent psychologist and engineer presents a provocative analysis of the concept of God through the lens of scientific inquiry. This is a study of the concept of God, not from the perspective of any religious tradition, but as a pervasive social phenomenon that has prevailed through the ages. An expert in engineering and applied psychology, author Thomas B. Sheridan offers unique perspective on the subject. In What Is God ?, he asks whether the...
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Cash, Harry Potter, the Simpsons , and John Grisham. What do all of these icons in pop culture have to do with faith? Find the answer in Pop Goes Religion ; relevant insight into the world of today's entertainment. In this collection of essays, popular American journalist, Terry Mattingly teaches readers how to identify elements of faith in today's pop culture. Topics include: God & Popular Music Faith & the Big Screen God on TV Ink, Paper,...
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For the past twenty years, Martin Marty and the editors of Sightings , a digital publication of the University of Chicago Divinity School's Martin Marty Center, have published informed, accessible, and witty commentary on religion in current events. Featuring more than seventy authors -- including Marty himself, Eboo Patel, and Krista Tippett -- this book collects one hundred of the best essays that originally appeared in Sightings. Religion in public...
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Publisher
Nomad Press / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Over 7 billion people live on the earth, and 84 percent of them describe themselves as being religious. Few topics incite such passion as religion. What does that mean? Why are humans invested in ideas that may never be proved? Why has religion played such an important role in history? In Comparative Religion: Investigate the World through Religious Tradition , readers seek answers to these questions by comparing and contrasting the cultural, spiritual,...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening condemnation of the economic sins of organized religion Throughout his adult life Upton Sinclair was an unapologetic idealist and a tireless crusader for the rights of the common man. In this powerful and scrupulously researched critique, he argues that organized religion is a gargantuan moneymaking operation in collusion with industry in their shared quest to strike down dissent while bleeding profits from the millions in their thrall....
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Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Shed[s] new light on the fascinating transformations of these words [religio, threskeia] in the shadow of Roman imperial power." -- Brent Nongbri, award-winning author of God's Library What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad meanings of the Latin and Greek words religio and threskeia,...
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Zondervan Academic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This will be the fourth edition of a time-tested resource for students writing papers in the fields of religion and theology. It provides essential guidance for writing assignments typical in graduate programs in religion and has served as a standard textbook for seminary research courses. The fourth edition is updated to include information on Turabian 9th edition, SBL Handbook 2nd edition, new resource lists, and additional help with online resources...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This updated third edition of Quality Research Papers -- fast becoming a standard reference textbook for writing research papers in the fields of religion and theology -- gives improvements and added material for such things as the expanding field of online research and doing church-related research in a professional manner. Because so many new developments have taken place in the field of research, especially in terms of electronic research, this...
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Pitchstone Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This book is not just for atheists but for antitheistsfor people who celebrated the writing of Christopher Hitchens and miss his voice Making the provocative assertion that the entire enterprise of organized religion is a thing for which the world and our species would have been better without, Oh, Your God! follows in the footsteps of the material observations of Lucretius, Epicurus, and Democritus and the more recent antitheistic arguments of Christopher...
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