Religion Matters Reader
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Author | : Prothero, Stephen |
Publisher | : W.W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 2020-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0393422046 |
A religion is a system of stories, and there is no better way to engage with the worldÕs religions than through the stories that animate their beliefs and practices. Through the exploration of these ancient stories and contemporary practices, Stephen Prothero, a New York TimesÐbestselling author and gifted storyteller, helps students better grasp the role of religion in our fractured world and to develop greater religious literacy. Videos and an award-winning adaptive learning tool, InQuizitive, further engage students and help them master core objectives and develop their own religious literacy.
Author | : DAVID. LAYCOCK |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780393543209 |
The Religion Matters Reader is an innovative (and inexpensive) complement to Stephen Prothero's pathbreaking and enormously teachable introductory text. The readings are accessible, diverse, and tied to the organizing principles of RELIGION MATTERS. Each chapter includes five readings--problem/solution, technique, two exemplar readings, and a controversy. A rich teaching tool created by the same authors who created the text's supporting media resources.
Author | : Huston Smith |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0061756245 |
Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World's Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocated by the dominant materialistic worldview of our times. Smith champions a society in which religion is once again treasured and authentically practiced as the vital source of human wisdom.
Author | : Krista Tippett |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008-01-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780143113188 |
A thought-provoking, original appraisal of the meaning of religion by the host of public radio's On Being Krista Tippett, widely becoming known as the Bill Moyers of radio, is one of the country's most intelligent and insightful commentators on religion, ethics, and the human spirit. With this book, she draws on her own life story and her intimate conversations with both ordinary and famous figures, including Elie Wiesel, Karen Armstrong, and Thich Nhat Hanh, to explore complex subjects like science, love, virtue, and violence within the context of spirituality and everyday life. Her way of speaking about the mysteries of life-and of listening with care to those who endeavor to understand those mysteries--is nothing short of revolutionary.
Author | : Stephen Prothero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2020-01-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780393421941 |
A religion is a system of stories, and there is no better way to engage with the world's religions than through the stories that animate their beliefs and practices. Through the exploration of these ancient stories and contemporary practices, Stephen Prothero, a New York Times-bestselling author and gifted storyteller, helps students better grasp the role of religion in our fractured world and to develop greater religious literacy. Videos and an award-winning adaptive learning tool, InQuizitive, further engage students and help them master core objectives and develop their own religious literacy.
Author | : William A. Mirola |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2016-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317344502 |
Religion Matters: What Sociology Teaches Us About Religion in Our World is organized around the biggest questions that arrise in the field of sociology of religion.This is a new text for the sociology of religion course. Instead of surveying this field systematically, the text focuses on the major questions that generate the most discussion and debate in the sociology of religion field.
Author | : William Mirola |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2015-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317344006 |
A reader that seeks to explore the relationship between the structure and culture of religion and various elements of social life in the U.S., Sociology of Religion: A Reader, 2e is ideal as either a standalone reader or supplement to the text written by the same author team, Why Religion Matters. Based on both classic and contemporary research in the sociology of religion, this reader highlights a variety of research methods and theoretical approaches. It explores the ways in which religious values, beliefs and practices shape the world outside of church, synagogue, or mosque walls while simultaneously being shaped by the non-religious forces operating in that world.
Author | : Chad V. Meister |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Reflecting current trends and research interests in the field - including the growing interest in religious diversity and global philosophy of religion - this broad and up to date introduction explores key writings from both the Western theistic tradition and from non-Western, non-theistic sources. The nine sections cover: Religious Diversity The Nature and Attributes of God Arguments for and Against the Existence of God Science Faith and Miracles The Self and Human Condition Religious Experience The Problem of Evil and Suffering Death and the Afterlife. With section introductions, discusssion questions, extensive bibliographies and a supporting website featuring additional material, it is the ideal reference tool to help clarify important points and reinforce understanding.
Author | : Christian Smith |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691191646 |
A groundbreaking new theory of religion Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book advances an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past. Drawing on the philosophy of critical realism and personalist social theory, Christian Smith explores why humans are religious in the first place—uniquely so as a species—and offers an account of secularization and religious innovation and persistence that breaks the logjam in which religious scholarship has been stuck for so long. Certain to stimulate debate and inspire promising new avenues of scholarship, Religion features a wealth of illustrations and examples that help to make its concepts accessible to readers. This superbly written book brings sound theoretical thinking to a perennially thorny subject, and a new vitality and focus to its study.
Author | : Candis Callison |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2015-02-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822376067 |
During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals, Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility. The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of maintaining fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experience, evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise.