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MODERN RELIGIONS: AN EXPERIENTIAL ANALYSIS AND EXPOSƒ

Author : Elliot Benjamin, Ph.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257082612
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book MODERN RELIGIONS: AN EXPERIENTIAL ANALYSIS AND EXPOSƒ written by Elliot Benjamin, Ph.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an experiential analysis of over twenty modern religious/spiritual groups. The book is divided into two generic segments, inclusive of a tri-perspective experiential analysis using a variety of cult danger rating scales, and a more personal experiential description of the author's involvement in these groups, written in stream of consciousness essay form. The groups explored include controversial religious organizations such as Scientology and The Unification Church, as well as lesser known religious groups such as Conversations with God and Avatar, and also new age retreat centers such as Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. The author describes both the dangers and benefits of various groups, and based upon his own experiences is able to rate these groups on a cult danger vs. spiritual benefits scale on a gradient from "high cult danger" to "favorable spiritual group."

Modern Religions

Author : Elliot Benjamin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Modern Religions written by Elliot Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel

Author : Pericles Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139485210
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel written by Pericles Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experiences that had traditionally been the domain of religious mystics and believers. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion. Through comparisons of major novelists with sociologists and psychologists from the same period, Lewis identifies the unique ways that literature addressed the changing spiritual situation of the early twentieth century. He challenges accounts that assume secularisation as the main narrative for understanding twentieth-century literature. Lewis explores the experiments that modernists undertook in order to invoke the sacred without directly naming it, resulting in a compelling study for readers of twentieth-century modernist literature.

Visions of Religion

Author : Stephen S. Bush
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199387419
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Religion written by Stephen S. Bush and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities Three understandings of the nature of religion--religion as experience, symbolic meaning, and power--have dominated scholarly discussions, in succession, for the past hundred years. Proponents of each of these three approaches have tended to downplay, ignore, or actively criticize the others. But why should the three approaches be at odds? Religion as it is practiced involves experiences, meanings, and power, so students of religion should attend to all three. Furthermore, theorists of religion should have an account that carefully conceptualizes all three aspects, without regarding any of them as more basic than the others. Visions of Religion provides just such an account. Stephen S. Bush examines influential proponents of the three visions, arguing that each approach offers substantial and lasting contributions to the study of religion, although each requires revision. Bush rehabilitates the concepts of experience and meaning, two categories that are much maligned these days. In doing so, he shows the extent to which these categories are implicated in matters of social power. As for power, the book argues that the analysis of power requires attention to meaning and experience. Visions of Religion accomplishes all this by articulating a social practical theory of religion that can account for all three aspects, even as it incorporates them into a single theoretical framework.

Religion and the Secular

Author : Timothy Fitzgerald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317491009
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Secular written by Timothy Fitzgerald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has dominated colonialism since the 16th century. 'Religion and the Secular' critically examines how religion has been used to subject indigenous concepts to the needs of colonial powers. Essays present the colonial relationship from the perspective of colonized cultures - including Mexico, Guatemala, Vietnam, India, Japan, South Africa and Canada - and colonizing powers, namely England, Germany and the United States. The volume offers a historical and ethnographical analysis of the relationship between the sacred and the secular, examining religion in relation to politics, economics and civil power.

Religion in Modern Times

Author : Linda Woodhead
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631210740
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Modern Times written by Linda Woodhead and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-04-07 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together over 300 important readings on religion in modern times, offering a new framework and language for making sense of religion today.

Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality

Author : Essien, Essien D.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799845966
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality written by Essien, Essien D. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an interesting knowledge trajectory that God remains incomprehensible, not imperceptible. This lends credence to the fact that religious study since the Enlightenment has dedicated itself almost entirely to the problem of reconciling the non-existence of God in the physical world with his necessary existence in the metaphysical world. When seriously examined, it would be discovered that these two aspects are logically contradictory, and this is a problem with no solution. But interpreting God not as a physical being but as a phenomenological thing changes the nature of the problem enough that a solution emerges almost automatically. In this phenomenological model, the crux of the matter is that God does not exist, but God is real. Therefore, it is imperative to return to experience and verifiability, hence, purging it of unexamined and often hidden assumptions. Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality brings together the different disciplines and research approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenology of God and spirituality, as well as offering an effective epistemological apparatus capable of dealing with this concept. The book employs multidisciplinary approaches from religious studies, theology, philosophy, anthropology, and other segments to dissect the subject matter for efficient evaluation and all-inclusive findings. While covering various aspects of religion such as the testaments of the Bible, the church, the religious experience, and various aspects of spirituality, this book is intended for theologians, philosophers, religious leaders, policymakers, academicians, researchers, students, public institutions, and agencies with a special interest in religious matters, values, knowledge, and truth.

Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World

Author : Kathleen Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199643938
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World written by Kathleen Lynch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new view of the historical conditions and methods by which godly communities turned personal experience into an authorizing principle. A broad range of life-writing is explored, including Augustine's Confessions, John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae.

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1877527467
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book The Varieties of Religious Experience written by William James and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."

Everyday Religion

Author : Nancy T. Ammerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198041573
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Religion written by Nancy T. Ammerman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists sometimes seem not to know what to do with religion. In the first century of sociology's history as a discipline, the reigning concern was explaining the emergence of the modern world, and that brought with it an expectation that religion would simply fade from the scene as societies became diverse, complex, and enlightened. As the century approached its end, however, a variety of global phenomena remained dramatically unexplained by these theories. Among the leading contenders for explanatory power to emerge at this time were rational choice theories of religious behavior. Researchers who have spent time in the field observing religious groups and interviewing practitioners, however, have questioned the sufficiency of these market models. Studies abound that describe thriving religious phenomena that fit neither the old secularization paradigm nor the equations predicting vitality only among organizational entrepreneurs with strict orthodoxies. In this collection of previously unpublished essays, scholars who have been immersed in field research in a wide variety of settings draw on those observations from the field to begin to develop more helpful ways to study religion in modern lives. The authors examine how religion functions on the ground in a pluralistic society, how it is experienced by individuals, and how it is expressed in social institutions. Taken as a whole, these essays point to a new approach to the study of religion, one that emphasizes individual experience and social context over strict categorization and data collection.

Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics

Author : Jeffrey Bloechl
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215925
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics written by Jeffrey Bloechl and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does religious thinking stand in opposition to postmodernity? Does the existence of God present the ultimate challenge to metaphysics? Strands of continental thought, especially those running from Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger, focus on individual consciousness as the horizon for all meaning and provide modern philosophy of religion with much of its present ferment. In Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics, 11 influential continental philosophers share the conviction that religious thinking cannot afford to disengage from the challenges of modern European philosophy. Together they provide a rich and intriguing set of answers to questions surrounding the meaning of religious experience. Topics include subjectivity, selfhood, and rationality; language, community, and ethics; the influence of Jewish and eastern religions on religious experience; God as phenomenology; and religion in the postmodern age. These lucid and arresting essays bring together many of the leading voices in the contemporary continental debate on God and religion.

Religious Experience

Author : Craig Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317545702
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Religious Experience written by Craig Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but that these are always secondary to the original experience itself. However, the concept of "experience" has come under increasing fire from a range of critics and theorists. This Reader presents writings from both those who assume the existence and possible universality of religious experience and those who question the very rhetoric of "experience". Bringing together both classic and contemporary writings, the Reader showcases differing disciplinary approaches to the study of religious experience: philosophy, literary and cultural theory, history, psychology, anthropology; feminist theory; as well as writings from within religious studies. The essays are structured into pairs, with each essay separately introduced with information on its historical and intellectual context. The ultimate aim of the Reader is to enable students to explore religious experience as rhetoric created to authorize social identities. The book will be an invaluable introduction to the key ideas and approaches for students of Religion, as well as Sociology and Anthropology. CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Desjarlais, Diana Eck, William James, Craig Martin, Russell T. McCutcheon, Wayne Proudfoot, Robert Sharf, Ann Taves, Charles Taylor, Joachim Wach, Joan Wallach Scott, Raymond Williams

The Making of Modern German Christology, 1750-1990, Second Edition

Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597523054
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern German Christology, 1750-1990, Second Edition written by Alister E. McGrath and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Making of Modern German Christology' is a reliable and readable introduction to the central themes and personalities of modern German Christology. Germany and northern Switzerland have been the source of a fertile theological tradition since the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. Moreover, the Enlightenment seems to have had its deepest theological impact in Germany and on one area of theology in particular: the person and work of Christ. Now that chapter in church history seems to be coming to a close with a shift in theological emphasis away from the Continent to North America. This book, revised and updated from an earlier British edition, is therefore a survey of that major chapter in modern theology for students and informed laypeople.

Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture

Author : Robert MacSwain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199646821
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture written by Robert MacSwain and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Brown is a widely-respected theologian who initially made his mark in analytic discussions of Christian doctrine such as the Trinity. With the publication of Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change (1999) his career entered a distinctly new phase, focused on theology and the arts. Four related volumes followed, dealing with discipleship, art and icons, place and space, the body, music, metaphor, drama, and popular culture. According to Brown, the fundamental thesis underlying all five volumes is that both natural and revealed theology are in crisis, and the only way out is to give proper attention to the cultural embeddedness of both. This current volume is the first attempt to assess the significance of this remarkable series, and its contributors include some of the most prominent philosophers, theologians, biblical and literary scholars writing today. Aside from its distinguished interdisciplinary line-up, a distinctive feature is sustained consideration of Brown's work on popular culture. It thus provides an exciting and substantial treatment of theology, aesthetics, and culture.

Fits, Trances, & Visions

Author : Ann Taves
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691010242
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fits, Trances, & Visions written by Ann Taves and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-14 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: as manifestations of God, the spirits, or the Christ within. Skeptics, on the other hand, have understood them as symptoms of physical disease, mental disorder, group dynamics, or other natural causes. In this sweeping work of religious and psychological history, Ann Taves explores the myriad ways in which believers and detractors interpreted these complex experiences in Anglo-American culture between the mid-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Taves divides the book into three sections. In the first, ranging from 1740 to 1820, she examines the debate over trances, visions, and other involuntary experiences against the politically charged backdrop of Anglo-American evangelicalism, established churches, Enlightenment thought, and a legacy of religious warfare.

Anthology of Contemporary Theoretical Classics in Analytical Psychology

Author : Stefano Carpani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000554244
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Anthology of Contemporary Theoretical Classics in Analytical Psychology written by Stefano Carpani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Gradiva Award nominee for Best Edited Book! This anthology of contemporary classics in analytical psychology bring together academic, scholarly and clinical writings by contributors who constitute the "post-Jungian" generation. Carpani brings together important contributions from the Jungian world to establish the "new ancestors" in this field, in order to serve future generations of Jungian analysts, scholars, historians and students. This generation of clinicians and scholars has shaped the contemporary Jungian landscape, and their work continues to inspire discussions on key topics including archetypes, race, gender, trauma and complexes. Each contributor has selected a piece of their work which they feel best represents their research and clinical interests, each aiding the expansion of current discussions on Jung and contemporary analytical psychology studies. Spanning two volumes, which are also accessible as standalone books, this essential collection will be of interest to Jungian analysts and therapists, as well as to academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies.

Religious Diversity and the American Experience

Author : Terrence W. Tilley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826427952
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Religious Diversity and the American Experience written by Terrence W. Tilley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a textbook intended for graduate and undergraduate students of theology on the topic of theology and religious diversityA textbook on the crucial theological question of our time—religious pluralism— rooted in the American experience