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Author : John Waters
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lapsed Agnostic written by John Waters and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2008-10-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Times columnist tells of his initial faith, his loss of it, and finally how he regained it.
Author : Gary Younge
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578064885
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (648 download)
Download or read book No Place Like Home written by Gary Younge and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, 13 black and white people - the Freedom Riders - tested the ban on segregation in interstate travel by going together from Washington to New Orleans. This is the account of a young black Briton following their route in the late 1990s.
Author : John Waters
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441114211
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Beyond Consolation written by John Waters and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waters explores the process by which the hope of a society was sabotaged and plundered in the name of a mis-defined freedom.
Author : Lois Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0198736843
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Recognizing the Non-religious written by Lois Lee and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2015 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an investigation of what it's like to be 'not religious' in secular Britain today. It draws attention to the ways in which the 'not religious' engage with 'religious' matters i.e. what it means to live and die, weddings and funerals, and identifying with or against people according to their religious or non-religious views and cultures.
Author : James L. Heft S.M.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197529348
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Empty Churches written by James L. Heft S.M. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition. Co-editors Jan Stets, a social psychologist, and James Heft, a historian of theology, bring together leading scholars in the fields of sociology, developmental psychology, gerontology, political science, history, philosophy, and pastoral theology. The scholars in this volume explore the phenomenon by drawing from each other's work to understand better the multi-faceted nature of non-affiliation today. They explore the complex impact that non-affiliation has on individuals and the wider society, and what the future looks like for religion in America. The book also features insightful perspectives from parents of young adults and interviews with pastors struggling with this issue who address how we might address this trend. Empty Churches provides a rich and thoughtful analysis on non- affiliation in American society from multiple scholarly perspectives. The increasing growth of non-affiliation threatens the vitality and long-term stability of religious institutions, and this book offers guidance on maintaining the commitment and community at the heart of these institutions.
Author : Donald E. Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468544594
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book The Hopeful Agnostic written by Donald E. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I reached age 80, I decided that it was time to organize my thoughts about my life and my impending death. Jokingly, I had often described myself as a "Hopeful Agnostic." Now, I'm not certain that that is an accurate description. This book is my attempt to answer the age-old questions about life, death and the hereafter. I know full well that the answers may never be found, but the quest might lead to my peace of mind and more self-awareness. One can only hope.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Agnostic Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gemma Simmonds
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814638279
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book A Future Full of Hope? written by Gemma Simmonds and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we looking at the imminent death of religious life in the church, a future full of hope, or something in between? This book, based on papers given at a colloquium run by the Religious Life Institute at Heythrop College, University of London, addresses urgent questions around the renewal and survival of religious life.Despite recent scandals and a steady diminishment of numbers since Vatican II, religious remain a powerful source of inspiration and positive energy within church and society. Fifty years after the Council, today's context and questions are different. Did the Council bring about a renewal or an implosion of religious life? Who is looking at religious vocation today? What are they seeking, and what are they finding?With a foreword by former Dominican Master General Timothy Radcliffe, leading authors on religious life, including Gregory Collins, OSB, and Christopher Jamison, OSB, explore these questions and propose answers that offer material for individual and communal reflection.
Author : William Desmond
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268201595
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Godsends written by William Desmond and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godsends is William Desmond’s newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology. For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project—replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformation—in an attempt to reopen certain boundaries: between metaphysics and phenomenology, between philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, between the apocalyptic and the speculative, and between religious passion and systematic reasoning. In Godsends, Desmond’s newest addition to his ambitious masterwork, he presents an original reflection on what he calls the “companioning” of philosophy and religion. Throughout the book, he follows an itinerary that has something of an Augustinian likeness: from the exterior to the interior, from the inferior to the superior. The stations along the way include a grappling with the default atheism prevalent in contemporary intellectual culture; an exploration of the middle space, the metaxu between the finite and the infinite; a dwelling with solitudes as thresholds between selving and the sacred; a meditation on idiot wisdom and transcendence in an East-West perspective; an exploration of the different stresses in the mysticisms of Aurobindo and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons; a dream monologue of autonomy, a suite of Kantian and post-Kantian variations on the story of the prodigal son; a meditation on the beatitudes as exceeding virtue, in light of Aquinas’s understanding; and culminating in an exploration of Godsends as telling us something significant about the surprise of revelation in word, idea, and story. Godsends is written for thoughtful persons and scholars perplexed about the place of religion in our time and hopeful for some illuminating companionship from relevant philosophers. It will also interest students of philosophy and religion, especially philosophical theology and philosophical metaphysics.
Author : Pablo Martínez de Anguita
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136303685
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Environmental Solidarity written by Pablo Martínez de Anguita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past few decades have seen the beginnings of a convergence between religions and ecological movements. The environmental crisis has called the religions of the world to respond by finding their voice within the larger Earth community. At the same time, a certain religiosity has started to emerge in some areas of secular ecological thinking. Beyond mere religious utilitarianism, rooted in an understanding of the deepest connections between human beings, their worldviews, and nature itself, this book tries to show how religious believers can look at the world through the eyes of faith and find a broader paradigm to sustain sustainability, proposing a model for transposing this paradigm into practice, so as to develop long-term sustainable solutions that can be tested against reality.
Author : Paul Backholer
Publisher : ByFaith Media
ISBN 13 : 1907066462
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Britain, A Christian Country: A Nation Defined by Christianity and the Bible written by Paul Backholer and published by ByFaith Media. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a thousand years Britain was defined by Christianity, with monarchs dedicating the country to God and national days of prayer that saved the nation in its darkest hours. Discover the continuing legacy of the Bible in Britain, how faith defined its nationhood and the challenges from the 1960s to the present day. 2020 edition.
Author : David Smith
Publisher : Augsburg Books
ISBN 13 : 150646730X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Liberating the Gospel written by David Smith and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberating the Gospel is prefaced by Tom Wright's claim that Christians have for too long "read scripture with nineteenth-century eyes and sixteenth-century questions," and that it is urgently necessary they learn to read "with first-century eyes and twenty-first-century questions." The central section of the book concentrates on reading the narratives of the Galilean ministry of Jesus within their first century context, then exploring Paul's mission in the setting of the urban and imperial world of Rome, before offering reflection on the Apocalypse in the changed world following the destruction of Jerusalem. Smith then concludes his treatise facing the "twenty-first-century questions," seeking to build a hermeneutical bridge to our globalized world. As a whole, this major book on Christian mission aims to contribute toward an understanding of how the dynamic message of Christ might be liberated to be heard as genuinely good news today, in the process potentially transforming Christianity, provided there is willingness to face opposition from a world resistant to the exposure of its injustices.
Author : Pam Warren
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849547157
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book From Behind the Mask written by Pam Warren and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was not expected to survive. She became the lady in the mask. In October 1999, Pam Warren's life was turned on its head when she sustained horrific injuries in the Paddington rail crash. The casualties numbered thirty-one dead and over five hundred injured. Pam underwent scores of operations to rebuild her burnt body, and had to wear a plastic mask over her face for twenty-three hours a day over an eighteen-month period. Unwittingly, she became the public face of the disaster. Over a decade on from that terrible event, From Behind the Mask charts the true inside story of Pam's journey from victim to survivor and campaigner. Following the crash she became the UK's leading spokesperson for improving rail safety, battling with rail management executives and the government - and winning. She was branded a troublemaker, but Pam and fellow members of the Paddington Survivors' Group helped bring about great improvements on our railways. For years Pam remained focused on that campaign. Now, for the first time, she can tell us all what really happened. It is an inspirational story of determination and courage.
Author : Eric L. Rozenman
Publisher : RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781928928096
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Total Jihad written by Eric L. Rozenman and published by RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This page-turning thriller about a defeated Israel raises chilling possibilities about outcomes of a war fueled by hate and religion. Current as tomorrow's headlines, revealing as a classified briefing, "Total Jihad" captures the turmoil of today's Middle East and is a provocative fable for modern times.
Author : Carol Light
Publisher : Able Muse Press
ISBN 13 : 1927409195
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Heaven from Steam: Poems written by Carol Light and published by Able Muse Press. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Light’s Heaven from Steam, a finalist for the 2012 Able Muse Book Award, moves effortlessly from the humorous to the serious, from mundane concerns to sublime. She writes as convincingly of carnal pleasures as of spiritual mysteries. Light’s playful energy is imbued with pleasing rhythms and sonic patterns. With surprising wordplay and associations, she renders complex vistas as understandable simplicities, finds fresh, inventive turns of phrase that will remain with the reader. Her multifarious themes include questions of faith, divorce, childbearing, cathedrals, the Pacific Northwest, the Prairies, Italy—especially Rome—and beyond. This visionary debut collection will delight the discerning lover of poetry. PRAISE FOR HEAVEN FROM STEAM: Carol Light’s Heaven from Steam is an extraordinary book, formally adept and wonderfully inventive. Light is a poet of arresting images and stunning sound effects; she needs just a few short lines to make even the old symbol of a sunrise worth our attention (“Pink lamé sundogs/ bodyguard/ the bigwig’s dazzled rise”). However perfect her details, though, and however sublime her phrases, it’s Light’s restless intelligence that keeps me returning to her work. Here’s a poet who inhabits, rather than frames the world; a poet of gestures, whose mind and heart are in motion, whether it’s a shrugged shoulder, or rolled eyes, or an open-armed embrace. Heaven from Steam is a thrilling debut. —Jason Whitmarsh The book is marked by a lightness of touch. The overall effect is playful. . . . But she strikes another tone entirely in the crowning sonnet sequence, “Vicolo del Divino Amore” . . . the nimbleness with which she weaves and unweaves her lines and imagery around the birth of a yearned-for child. —Brad Leithauser (from the foreword) In one of his “Dream Song” poems, John Berryman writes, “The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once.” Carol Light, in Heaven from Steam, performs arias again and again; her songs are equal parts rapturous (“the sun ignites the lantern world”) and disquieting (“billboards blaze/ the end of days”). She takes up the Etruscan dead and the soon-to-be-living (“my one wish kicked/ and stitched herself into the world”), and she does so in lines that are musical and moving and often quite funny. She makes a magnificent debut. Upon finishing the book, readers will demand (like Goethe on his deathbed), “More Light!” — Cody Walker Although these poems span landscapes from the Pacific Northwest to Italy, their true settings are interior, the complex terrain of an acutely observant and questioning mind. At times playful, at times philosophical, at times filled with longing, they take us past gulls and bell buoys, cathedrals and cobblestone piazzas, to the mysteries that surround us—and they do it all with stunning formal dexterity. Heaven from Steam marks the debut of a vivid poet already at ease with her art. —Linda Bierds
Author : C. Lynn Anderson
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598585541
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Where All Our Journeys End written by C. Lynn Anderson and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where All Our Journeys End: Searching for the Beloved in Everyday Life explores our need to connect and reconnect with the Divine and all that has been graced by her. In these writings, we remember who and what we are in our blessings of being human beings entrusted to co-create; human beings who are divine sparks of the divine essence; human beings who love, passionately love, all of creation. For the Beloved is our ultimate destiny, where all our journeys truly do end. This book captures the audience with the grace of God/Goddess as the reader is taken chapter by chapter on a journey into healing. Written in a passionate, holistic voice, with personal and professional stories, Where All Our Journeys End projects a natural rhythm, expressed in the ebb and flow of its prose and poetry, which transforms thinking into being and doing for the Beloved in discovery and recovery. ADVANCED REVIEWS AND ENDORSEMENTS "C. Lynn Anderson makes a highly significant contribution to the understanding and practice of a spirituality which can support our journey through the major paradigm shift needed for humanity and Earth to thrive in the 21st Century. She brings extraordinary depth and breadth of intellect, clarity and beauty of expression to the discovery of a creation-centered spirituality that can nurture and encourage the reader in compassionate and sustainable living." J. Melvin Bricker, D.Min., Former Vice President of Academic Affairs, The University of Creation Spirituality, Oakland, CA. "Beautifully written C. Lynn Anderson gives voice to the creation story and colors it with her hue of compassion." Ana Perez-Chisti, Ph.D, National Representative of the Sufi Movement International and Chair of the Ph.D. Global Studies Department - Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. "C. Lynn Anderson has written an eloquent and inspirational book on how to live a deeply spiritual life that honors diversity while affirming fundamental unity. She powerfully integrates the insights of psychology with the wisdom of the world's religious traditions. Many of her personal insights are expressed in beautiful poems." Charles M. Burack, Ph.D., Chair of Liberal Arts and Director of the B.A. Psychology Program, John F. Kennedy University, former faculty at Naropa University, and author of D. H. Lawrence's Language of Sacred Experience. "C. Lynn Anderson's writing is insightful, compassionate, profound and inspirational. She speaks with the voice of someone who has been there and continues to go there." Mary Raymer, L.M.S.W., A.C.S.W., International Consultant and Trainer, Social Work Leader - Project on Death in America, and co-author of What Social Workers Do: A Guide to Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care. "Dr. Anderson has committed herself to re-connecting social work practice with the compassion of heart and the spirit of soul. She walks a healing journey and invites others to walk with her to sustain life and nurture creativity." Jane Hayes, L.M.S.W., A.C.S.W., Assistant Professor - Grand Valley State University, Social Work Educator and Community Activist. www.sarahscircle.com
Author : Raymond A. Hult
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426987358
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book American Agnostic written by Raymond A. Hult and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Agnostic argues that the true worth of an American should not be based on an individual's faith or uncertainty in the reality of a biblical God. American Agnostic is an atempt by author Raymond A. Hult to bridge the unfortunate gap of mistrust and disrespect that too often currently exists in America between members of the Christian majority and the agnostic minority. Hult places the responsibility for achieving a mutually respectful understanding equally on the shoulders of both those who fervently believe in the Christian God and those who are as yet still unsure. He tries to show that moral behavior is more often than not unrelated to a person's religious persuasion. American Agnostic engages Christians and agnostics in a frank discussion of the main differences of opinion that separate both groups in regard to the authenticity of the Bible and the reality of the God as presented therein. Drawing on his transformation from a devout Christina leader to a questioning agnostic, the author recounts in detail the thought process that led to his gradual change of belief. He respectively defends this change as reasonable and deserving of serious consideration. He seeks to portray the agnostic in a more favorable light and that there is nothing inherently evil with admitting that a sure knowledge of God may not be so sure after all.
