The Religion Of Life
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Author | : Sarah Walsh |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2022-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822988097 |
The Religion of Life examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism and eugenics in early twentieth-century Chile. Specifically, it demonstrates that the popularity of eugenic science was not diminished by the influence of Catholicism there. In fact, both eugenics and Catholicism worked together to construct the concept of a unique Chilean race, la raza chilena. A major factor that facilitated this conceptual overlap was a generalized belief among historical actors that male and female gender roles were biologically determined and therefore essential to a functioning society. As the first English-language study of eugenics in Chile, The Religion of Life surveys a wide variety of different materials (periodicals, newspapers, medical theses, and monographs) produced by Catholic and secular intellectuals from the first half of the twentieth century. What emerges from this examination is not only a more complex rendering of the relationship between religion and science but also the development of White supremacist logics in a Latin American context.
Author | : Abdul Wadod Shalabi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : 9781929694082 |
This concise book is among the finest introductions to Islam for an educated readership. Its content is authentic, reliable, and powerfully presented -- written by an Islamic scholar, Dr. Abdul Wadod Shalabi, who combines traditional religious training from al-Azhar University and Western education from the University of Cambridge, where the author received his doctorate. Also, it has been edited by Abd al-Hakim Murad, himself a scholar.
Author | : Patricia O'Connell Killen |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2004-03-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0759115753 |
When asked their religious identification, more people answer 'none' in the Pacific Northwest than in any other region of the United States. But this does not mean that the region's religious institutions are without power or that Northwesterners who do attend no place of worship are without spiritual commitments. With no dominant denomination, Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jews, adherents of Pacific Rim religious traditions, indigenous groups, spiritual environmentalists, and secularists must vie or sometimes must cooperate with each other to address the regions' pressing economic, environmental, and social issues. One cannot understand this complex region without understanding the fluid religious commitments of its inhabitants. And one cannot understand religion in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska without Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest.
Author | : Azizah al-Hibri |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780393322064 |
A thought-provoking discussion of the public and political expression of America's diverse religious beliefs.
Author | : Jon Butler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199913293 |
"Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One can hardly do better than Religion in American Life.... A good read, especially for the uninitiated. The initiated might also read it for its felicity of narrative and the moments of illumination that fine scholars can inject even into stories we have all heard before. Read it."--Church History This new edition of Religion in American Life, written by three of the country's most eminent historians of religion, offers a superb overview that spans four centuries, illuminating the rich spiritual heritage central to nearly every event in our nation's history. Beginning with the state of religious affairs in both the Old and New Worlds on the eve of colonization and continuing through to the present, the book covers all the major American religious groups, from Protestants, Jews, and Catholics to Muslims, Hindus, Mormons, Buddhists, and New Age believers. Revised and updated, the book includes expanded treatment of religion during the Great Depression, of the religious influences on the civil rights movement, and of utopian groups in the 19th century, and it now covers the role of religion during the 2008 presidential election, observing how completely religion has entered American politics.
Author | : Gary Scott Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199391394 |
Continuing the work of Faith and the Presidency (OUP 2006), Gary Scott Smith takes on eleven more US presidents and examines the role religion played in their policies, personal lives, and decisions.
Author | : Clifford Williams |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2020-04-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108421563 |
Explores life's meaning through the lens of belief in God and lived realities including boredom, denial of death, and suicide.
Author | : Walter Sisto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781524929824 |
Author | : Roberto Mangabeira Unger |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1784787302 |
A new philosophy of religion for a secular world How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us? These questions stand at the center of Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The Religion of the Future: an argument for both spiritual and political revolution. It proposes the content of a religion that can survive without faith in a transcendent God or in life after death. According to this religion—the religion of the future—human beings can be more human by becoming more godlike, not just later, in another life or another time, but right now, on Earth and in their own lives. They can become more godlike without denying the irreparable flaws in the human condition: our mortality, groundlessness, and insatiability.
Author | : The School of Life |
Publisher | : School of Life Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781912891030 |
Many of us find ourselves in the odd situation of not believing in religion – but nevertheless being interested in it, moved by it and sympathetic to some of its aims. We may enjoy religious art and architecture, music and community, and even some of the rituals – while being unable to believe in angels, divine commandments or stories about the afterlife. This book is about those feelings and what we might do about them. The School of Life is a secular organisation fascinated by the gaps left in modern society by the gradual disappearance of religion. We’re interested in how hard it is to find a sense of community, how rituals are dying out and how much we sometimes crave the solemn quiet you find in religious buildings. This book lays out how we might absorb the best lessons of religion, update them for our times and incorporate them into our daily lives and societies – without taking on the supernatural or doctrinaire elements. This book tries to rescue some of what remains wise and useful from all that no longer seems (to many of us) to be quite true.