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Author : GIFFORD.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190099602
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (996 download)
Download or read book PLIGHT OF WESTERN RELIGION written by GIFFORD. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denise Lardner Carmody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780534139803
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Western Ways to the Center written by Denise Lardner Carmody and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Gifford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190095871
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The Plight of Western Religion written by Paul Gifford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Religion' can be used to mean all kinds of things, but a substantive definition---based on the premise of superhuman powers--can clarify much. It allows us to attempt to differentiate religion from culture, ethnicity, morality and politics. This definition of religion necessarily implies a perception of reality. Until recent centuries in the West, and in most cultures still, the ordinary, natural and immediate way of understanding and experiencing reality was in terms of otherworldly or spiritual forces. However, a cognitive shift has taken place through the rise of science and its subsequent technological application. This new consciousness has not disproved the existence of spiritual forces, but has led to the marginalization of the other-worldly, which even Western churches seem to accept. They persist, but increasingly as pressure groups promoting humanist values. Claims of 'American exceptionalism' in this regard are misleading. Obama's religion, Evangelical support for Trump, and the mega-church message of success in the capitalist system can all be cultural and political phenomena. This eclipsing of the other-worldly constitutes a watershed in human history, with profound consequences not just for religious institutions but for our entire world order.
Author : Thomas Robinson
Publisher : ROBINEST
ISBN 13 : 1777243092
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Western Religions: Understanding Our Religious World written by Thomas Robinson and published by ROBINEST. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Western Religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), covering their History, Beliefs, Structure, and Practices. Richly illustrated with colourful photos, illustrations, maps and charts, as well as audio files and a selection of relevant ancient texts. This eBOOK provides a solid, jargon-free introduction to western religious traditions for college-level classes or for any reader seeking a neutral presentation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by an author who has taught extensively in the field of religion for over three decades.
Author : John Herman Randall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The role of knowledge in Western religion written by John Herman Randall and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan W. Janssen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781477647929
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (479 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Western Religion written by Allan W. Janssen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I believe that any open-minded person with an interest in human culture and religion will find it useful and enlightening, as well as entertaining to read. This is not a dry textbook but a vital exploration of human beings and our search for a bigger meaning, and what the results of that search have and can lead to. A Brief History of Western Religion is a very good overview of the subject of humanity and religion, and I highly recommend it to all open-minded readers.
Author : Daniel Dubuisson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801873201
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (732 download)
Download or read book The Western Construction of Religion written by Daniel Dubuisson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-06-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western Construction of Religion not only provides a critical assessment of the whole history of religionas it is understood in the West but offers better ways of constructing the study of this central part of human experience.
Author : Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher : Black Classic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780933121294
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (212 download)
Download or read book African Origins of the Major "Western Religions" written by Yosef Ben-Jochannan and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Ben critically examines the history, beliefs, and myths that are the foundation of Judaism. Christianity, and Islam.
Author : Allan Wilhelm Janssen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539019138
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The Plain Truth about God! written by Allan Wilhelm Janssen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than generating sterile debates, the information presented here should help clarify your own views toward religion and develop a critical ability to analyze today's spiritual market. The thoughts presented here focus on Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the major Eastern Religions because they play the biggest role in defining today's world spirituality from a Western viewpoint. Some believe that a comparative analysis like this may fuel religious hatred and intolerance, but this is wrong. Religious tolerance and freedom cannot be built on ignorance, but should rather be built on an understanding of commonalities.
Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816522456
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Religion in the Modern American West written by Ferenc Morton Szasz and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Americans migrated west, they carried with them not only their hopes for better lives but their religious traditions as well. Yet the importance of religion in the forging of a western identity has seldom been examined. In this first historical overview of religion in the modern American West, Ferenc Szasz shows the important role that organized religion played in the shaping of the region from the late-nineteenth to late-twentieth century. He traces the major faiths over that time span, analyzes the distinctive response of western religious institutions to national events, and shows how western cities became homes to a variety of organized faiths that cast only faint shadows back east. While many historians have minimized the importance of religion for the region, Szasz maintains that it lies at the very heart of the western experience. From the 1890s to the 1920s, churches and synagogues created institutions such as schools and hospitals that shaped their local communities; during the Great Depression, the Latter-day Saints introduced their innovative social welfare system; and in later years, Pentecostal groups carried their traditions to the Pacific coast and Southern Baptists (among others) set out in earnest to evangelize the Far West. Beginning in the 1960s, the arrival of Asian faiths, the revitalization of evangelical Protestantism, the ferment of post-Vatican II Catholicism, the rediscovery of Native American spirituality, and the emergence of New Age sects combined to make western cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco among the most religiously pluralistic in the world. Examining the careers of key figures in western religion, from Rabbi William Friedman to Reverend Robert H. Schuller, Szasz balances specific and general trends to weave the story of religion into a wider social and cultural context. Religion in the Modern American West calls attention to an often overlooked facet of regional history and broadens our understanding of the American experience.
Author : David Hillel Gelernter
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Americanism written by David Hillel Gelernter and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gelernter argues that America is not a secular nation, but a powerful religious idea--indeed, a religion in its own right. He presents a startlingly original argument about the religious meaning of America, and explores why the U.S. is loved--and hated--with so much passion at home and abroad.
Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199999637
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Religions of the West Today written by John L. Esposito and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume reveals the significance of religion in contemporary life and accomplishes two goals: it connects today's Western religions to their classical beliefs and practices and focuses on how these religions have responded to and been transformed by the modern world. Combiningthorough coverage of the historical background of each religion with up-to-the-minute discussions of its current practices, this is a well-rounded introduction to Western religions.
Author : Harvie Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136821384
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Religious Transformation in Western Society (Routledge Revivals) written by Harvie Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992, this remarkable book challenges many of the assumptions governing the Sociology of Religion and the Sociology of Culture by arguing that Western religion is neither science nor morality - it is the promise of happiness. Learned and incisive, it will be essential reading for students of religion, culture and anyone interested in the character of Modernity.
Author : Lyman Beecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book A Plea for the West written by Lyman Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plea for Protestant education in the Middle West.
Author : Stephen Chan
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1787381307
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Spear to the West written by Stephen Chan and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the seeming defeat of ISIS, has jihadism disappeared from world politics? In this startling new book, Stephen Chan uncovers the ideological foundations that allow ISIS and other jihadi groups to survive, as they propagate terror by sophisticated means online and continue thrusting their spear at the West. Far from presenting simple-minded, black-clad fighters, Chan describes an elaborate process of online recruitment, which is, in its own terrible way, meaningful and thoughtful. He examines the foundations of this thought and the step-by-step methods of jihadi indoctrination, exposing the lack of IT knowledge among Western world leaders and urging the 'moderate' Islamic community in the West to challenge jihadi ideology with a courageous, non-violent ideology of its own. Without a counter-ideology, Chan argues, alienated Muslim youth are drawn not only to glamorized dreams of violence, but also to the pull of a totalizing system of politics and theology. Spear to the West picks apart the fallacy of 'thoughtless' jihadi carnage, arguing that--dangerous and gruesome as it might be--there is more thought behind this phenomenon of destruction than meets the eye.
Author : Andrew Willard Jones
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645851249
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics written by Andrew Willard Jones and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevailing narrative of human history, given to us as children and reinforced constantly through our culture, is the plot of progress. As the narrative goes, we progressed from tyranny to freedom, from superstition to science, from poverty to wealth, from darkness to enlightenment. This is modernity’s origin myth. Out of it, a consensus has emerged: part of human progress is the overcoming of religion, in particular Christianity, and that the world itself is fundamentally secular. In The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics, Andrew Willard Jones rewrites the political history of the West with a new plot, a plot in which Christianity is true, in which human history is Church history. The Two Cities moves through the rise and fall of empires; cycles of corruption and reform; the rise and fall of Christendom; the emergence of new political forms, such as the modern state, and new political ideologies, such as liberalism and socialism; through the horrible destruction of modern warfare; and on to the plight of contemporary Christians. These movements of history are all considered in light of their orientation toward or away from God. The Two Cities advances a theory of Christian politics that is both an explanation of secular politics and a proposal for Christians seeking to navigate today’s most urgent political questions.
Author : Raymond Ibrahim
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1621570258
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Crucified Again written by Raymond Ibrahim and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that there is a new wave of persecution of Christians in Muslim countries, and by radical Muslims worldwide.
