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| Author | : Mitchell MELTZER |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0674040945 |
The United States Constitution is a quintessentially political document. Yet, until now, no one has seriously considered the formative influence of this document on American cultural life. In this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer demonstrates the extent to which the Constitution is both source and inspiration for America's greatest literary masterworks.
| Author | : Samuel Fleischacker |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0198733070 |
Religions that center around a revelation--or a 'good book', which is seen as God's word--are widely regarded as irrational and dangerous, based on outdated science and conducive to illiberal, inhumane moral attitudes. Samuel Fleischacker offers a powerful defense of revealed religion, and reconciles it with science and liberal morality.
| Author | : Charles Taylor |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 889 |
| Release | : 2018-09-17 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0674986911 |
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
| Author | : Elaine Pagels |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2012-03-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 110157707X |
A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief. Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As one of the world's foremost religion scholars, she has been a pioneer in interpreting these books and illuminating their place in the early history of Christianity. Her new book, however, tackles a text that is firmly, dramatically within the New Testament canon: The Book of Revelation, the surreal apocalyptic vision of the end of the world . . . or is it? In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds-Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies. In a time when global religious violence surges, Revelations explores how often those in power throughout history have sought to force "God's enemies" to submit or be killed. It is sure to appeal to Pagels's committed readers and bring her a whole new audience who want to understand the roots of dissent, violence, and division in the world's religions, and to appreciate the lasting appeal of this extraordinary text.
| Author | : John C. Caiazza |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2017-09-07 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1351588737 |
Religion, Violence, and the Secular State assesses contemporary religious violence in the context of tensions between state secularism and religious ethics, and ultimately concludes that the West must reemphasize its own religious tradition in order to successfully combat the rise of a violent fundamentalism. The book presents an argument in three parts: first, an examination of the nature of religious violence; second, the effects of the present secularism of the American state on our ineffective ethical framework; and third, an advocacy for both the reasonableness of religious belief and the value of religiously based ethics (i.e., Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) as an influence within the modern state. The conclusion is that, with the arrival of violent Islam in the West, the presence of (traditional) religious influence in the United States needs to be reemphasized to combat religious terrorism. Islam represents a challenge to America and the West as a religious ideal that can only be successfully met by an energetic renewal of our own religious resources.
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| Total Pages | : 16 |
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| Author | : Wayne Hudson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2022-11-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1350331732 |
Deploying a distinctive disaggregative approach to the study of 'religion', this volume shows that spiritual movements with extensive counterfactual beliefs have been much more creative than one might expect. Specifically, Wayne Hudson explores the creativity of six spiritual movements: the Bahá'ís, a Persian movement; Soka Gakkai, a Japanese movement; Ananda Marga and the Brahma Kumaris, two reformed Hindu movements; and two controversial American churches, The Church Universal and Triumphant and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of these movements have counterintuitive features that have led Western scholars making Enlightenment assumptions to dismiss them as irrational and/or inconsequential. However, this book reveals that these movements have responded to modernity in ways that are creative and practical, resulting in a wide range of social, educational and cultural initiatives. Building on research surrounding the ways in which spiritual movements engage in cultural productions, this book takes the international research in a new direction by exploring the utopian intentionality such cultural productions reveal.
| Author | : Ahmidshamahd |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2013-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781479733170 |
This book was derived from the over 18 years of researcher on the anthropological evidence of religious development, that has constantly began to grow since the age of twelve; when I first began to realize my passion to search out the missing messages hidden in the mysteries of the people of the ancient world. I feel that being born and raised in the United States of America, where religious freedom is largely exercised; has given me an advantage of having the capability to learn from, and observe, the different aspects of the diverse religions of the Earth, without the religious suppression from other groups which has given me the opportunity to piece together the big picture of the mysteries of the ancient world, that is alive and well in the extant modern religious systems which all being understood and evaluated; and strictly taken into consideration, has handed up the opportunity to more easily unravel the forgotten mysteries of the ancient world; and make crystal clear the Truths of the Revelations of old; which when understood, is realized to be accounts that have only been refreshed by being retold by the patriarchs of the modern religions. All of this has been taken into consideration, and compiled into the book that I have published, to share with all who have the desire to hear where this book gives me the opportunity to share how the past has proven the revelations of the future to be correct just not for the reasons everyone believe they are correct; which is thee way they are projected by mainstream media while the reasons the revelations are actually correct is not fully known which is the interesting information that my book will reveal. To read the book that I have published is to look at the understanding of everything that is accepted as so in a much clearer light which at face value is just an opinion but with further investigation as it is with all things that are further investigated will reveal that un-evaluated information on a topic will give a greater clarity on any subject, by shining light on the grey/gray areas that at first were not evaluated where the revealed un-evaluated information; as new information; will be revealed as a fact to a clearer light than the one that was formerly seen which is such with the information that will be presented in my book. I thank all for reading, and sharing your time. Thank You. KaenAsar
| Author | : Benedict C.F.R. Groeschel |
| Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2012-12-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1681490242 |
Father Groeschel, the highly respected author, psychologist, spiritual director and leader of renewal in the religious life, has written a brief but comprehensive practical guide for all those interested in private revelations, the reports of visions and other extraordinary religious phenomena that are so widespread in these times. Because of the intense interest in extraordinary religious experience that ranges from Medjugorje to the New Age, Groeschel's book is an urgently needed resource that gives practical norms to everyone on how to evaluate these claims. Drawing on spiritual classics and Church documents not readily available, he summarizes the Church's perennial wisdom on this topic. He also offers an alternative to unusual and extraordinary ways of knowing the things of God, which is a normal everyday opportunity open to all called "religious experience"--the action of grace operating in the context of a human life that can become a powerful source of virtue and holiness. Father Groeschel skillfully directs the reader to the humbler and safer path which discerns God's presence in prayer, Scripture, the sacraments and love of neighbor. The great example of this path to holiness is St. Thérèse of Lisieux who, though having very few extraordinary experiences, was filled with a profound awareness of God's presence and said, "To ecstasy, I prefer the monotony of sacrifice."
| Author | : Carl F. H. Henry |
| Publisher | : Crossway |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 1999-01-25 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1433571080 |
Part 1 in a monumental six-volume set that presents an undeniable case for the revealed authority of God to a generation that has forgotten who he is and what he has done.
