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Author : Ian Victor Hansen
Publisher : Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nor Free Nor Secular written by Ian Victor Hansen and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rob Bell
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN 13 : 1250620570
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Everything Is Spiritual written by Rob Bell and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exciting vision of the future" --Michael Eric Dyson Everything Is Spiritual is an unexpected and compelling invitation to see your life in a whole new way. We have the great moments of our lives, the highs, those times when we soar, when it all makes sense, when it feels like it all has purpose and meaning. And then there are all those other moments—the lows and aches and failures and struggles and experiences that leave us wondering what the point of it all is. Are our lives ultimately bits and pieces and fragments—you try to find a little peace and hope and then it’s over? Or is there more going on here? In our increasingly polarized and disoriented world, Everything Is Spiritual gives us a radical new take on how it all fits together, how it works, how it’s all connected. Part memoir, part extended riff on the quantum nature of reality, part history of the universe, Rob Bell takes us back through the twists and turns and struggles of his story in order to help us see the larger story so that we can reconnect with our story.
Author : David Biale
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168040
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Not in the Heavens written by David Biale and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response to modernity but arose from forces long at play within Judaism itself. Biale explores how ancient Hebrew books like Job, Song of Songs, and Esther downplay or even exclude God altogether, and how Spinoza, inspired by medieval Jewish philosophy, recast the biblical God in the role of nature and stripped the Torah of its revelatory status to instead read scripture as a historical and cultural text. Biale examines the influential Jewish thinkers who followed in Spinoza's secularizing footsteps, such as Salomon Maimon, Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein. He tells the stories of those who also took their cues from medieval Jewish mysticism in their revolts against tradition, including Hayim Nahman Bialik, Gershom Scholem, and Franz Kafka. And he looks at Zionists like David Ben-Gurion and other secular political thinkers who recast Israel and the Bible in modern terms of race, nationalism, and the state. Not in the Heavens demonstrates how these many Jewish paths to secularism were dependent, in complex and paradoxical ways, on the very religious traditions they were rejecting, and examines the legacy and meaning of Jewish secularism today.
Author : Willem H. Vanderburg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487523033
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Secular Nations under New Gods written by Willem H. Vanderburg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing political muscle-flexing of diverse Christian communities in North America raises some deeply troubling questions regarding their roles among us. Earlier analyses including Herberg's Protestant, Catholic, Jew showed that these three branches of the Judaeo-Christian tradition correspond to three forms of the American way of life; while Kruse's One Nation Under God showed how Christian America was shaped by corporate America. Willem H. Vanderburg's Secular Nations under New Gods proceeds based on a dialogue between Jacques Ellul's interpretation of the task of Christians in the world and Ellul's interpretation of the roles of technique and the nation-state in individual and collective human life. He then adds new insight into our being a symbolic species dealing with our finitude by living through the myths of our society and building new secular forms of moralities and religions. If everything is political and if everything is amenable to discipline-based scientific and technical approaches, we are perhaps treating these human creations the way earlier societies did their gods, as being omnipotent, without limits. Vanderburg argues that until organized Christianity becomes critically aware of sharing these commitments with their societies, it will remain entrapped in the service of false gods and thereby will continue to turn a message of freedom and love into one of morality and religion.
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : A. Alland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230603173
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Catalunya, One Nation, Two States written by A. Alland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the culture of Catalan resistance to assimilation, through the maintenance of the Catalan language as an expression of identity. This book argues that the Catalans also developed a series of cultural mechanisms to foster identity through intellectual and recreational pursuits, as well as through an emphasis on language.
Author : Andrew Blauner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476789967
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Good Book written by Andrew Blauner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of previously unpublished pieces by 32 of today's most prominent writers shares their thoughts about biblical passages they find personally meaningful, in a volume that includes contributions by such figures as Edwidge Danticat, Tobias Wolff and Ian Frazier, "--NoveList.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Chambers's Encyclopædia written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Jacob Holyoake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Secular World and Social Economist written by George Jacob Holyoake and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The History of the Fleet Street House": 20 p. at the end of v. 18.
Author : Craig Calhoun
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 019979667X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Secularism written by Craig Calhoun and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines how "the secular" is constituted and understood, and how new understandings of secularism and religion shape analytic perspectives in the social sciences, politics, and international affairs.
Author : James D. G. Dunn
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802839339
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Neither Jew nor Greek written by James D. G. Dunn and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christianity in the making, James D.G. Dunn examines in depth the major factors that shaped first-generation Christianity and beyond, exploring the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism, the Hellenization of Christianity, and responses to Gnosticism. He mines all the first- and second-century sources, including the New Testament Gospels, New Testament apocrypha, and such church fathers as Ignatius, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus, showing how the Jesus tradition and the figures of James, Paul, Peter, and John were still esteemed influences but were also the subject of intense controversy as the early church wrestled with its evolving identity.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Chambers's Encyclopaedia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Secular Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald A. Lindsay
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 1939578167
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Necessity of Secularism written by Ronald A. Lindsay and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of the world's population no longer believes in God. This is especially true in developed nations, where in some societies nonbelievers now outnumber believers. Unless religion collapses completely, or undergoes a remarkable resurgence, countries across the globe must learn to carefully and effectively manage this societal mix of religious and irreligious. For in a world already deeply riven by sectarian conflict, this unprecedented demographic shift presents yet another challenge to humanity. Writing in an engaging, accessible style, philosopher and lawyer Ronald A. Lindsay develops a tightly crafted argument for secularism—specifically, that in a religiously pluralistic society, a robust, thoroughgoing secularism is the only reliable means of preserving meaningful democracy and rights of conscience. Contrary to certain political pundits and religious leaders who commonly employ the term secularism as a scare word, Lindsay uses clear, concrete examples and jargon-free language to demonstrate that secularism is the only way to ensure equal respect and protection under the law—for believers and nonbelievers alike. Although critical of some aspects of religion, Lindsay neither presents an antireligious tirade nor seeks to convert anyone to nonbelief, reminding us that secularism and atheism are not synonymous. Rather, he shows how secularism works to everyone's benefit and makes the definitive case that the secular model should be feared by none—and embraced by all.!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--
Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802778380
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Good Book written by A. C. Grayling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible, drawn from the wealth of secular literature and philosophy in both Western and Eastern traditions, using the same techniques of editing, redaction, and adaptation that produced the holy books of the Judaeo-Christian and Islamic religions. The Good Book consciously takes its design and presentation from the Bible, in its beauty of language and arrangement into short chapters and verses for ease of reading and quotability, offering to the non-religious seeker all the wisdom, insight, solace, inspiration, and perspective of secular humanist traditions that are older, far richer and more various than Christianity. Organized in 12 main sections----Genesis, Histories, Widsom, The Sages, Parables, Consolations, Lamentations, Proverbs, Songs, Epistles, Acts, and the Good----The Good Book opens with meditations on the origin and progress of the world and human life in it, then devotes attention to the question of how life should be lived, how we relate to one another, and how vicissitudes are to be faced and joys appreciated. Incorporating the writing of Herodotus and Lucretius, Confucius and Mencius, Seneca and Cicero, Montaigne, Bacon, and so many others, The Good Book will fulfill its audacious purpose in every way.
Author : Michael Rectenwald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614516758
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age written by Michael Rectenwald and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Secularisms addresses the state of and prospects for secularism globally. Drawing from multiple fields, it brings together theoretical discussion and empirical case studies that illustrate "on-the-ground," extant secularisms as they interact with various religious, political, social, and economic contexts. Its point of departure is the fact that secularism is plural and that various secularisms have developed in various contexts and from various traditions around the world. Secularism takes on different social meanings and political valences wherever it is expressed. The essays collected here provide numerous points of contact between empirical case studies and theoretical reflection. This multiplicity informs and challenges the conceptual theorization of secularism as a universal doctrine. Analyses of different regions enrich our understanding of the meanings of secularism, providing comparative range to our notions of secularity. Theoretical treatments help to inform our understanding of secularism in context, enabling readers to discern what is at stake in the various regional expressions of secularity globally. While the bulk of the essays are case-based research, the current thinking of leading theorists and scholars is also included.
Author : K. Fry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113740826X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Beyond Religious Right and Secular Left Rhetoric written by K. Fry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers arguments made by various sides of the political-religious divide from the past 30 years, showing what the actual differences are between these groups. By stressing the typically ignored similarities, the book better informs partisans and the public to move debate forward.
