Author: Mary Pat Fisher
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415211666
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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This survey considers the global religious situation at the approach of the new millennium. It provides an introduction to a variety of new religious movements, and examines the role of the Interfaith Movement as well as the use of modern technology.
Author: Jonathan S. Cullick
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780205567799
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This brief, affordable reader examines how faith and religion are written about in many kinds of texts - personal, sacred, and academic - as well as in the public square and in popular culture.
Author: Peter W. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Book Description
In a review in the Journal of Religion, the famed Martin Marty characterized Peter Williams as "a productive wonder" and Americas Religions: Traditions and Cultures as "a rich resource for readers who would like a state of the art comment on the abundant religious phenomena which surround them". Writing in Religion and American Culture, Stephen J. Stein said the book is "not a story of religion in isolation from the rest of American life", but a work that has as a major emphasis the theme of Americanization, of the symbiotic relationship between religions and cultures. Williamss book widely considered the best of its kind, is a comprehensive introduction to the religious history of the United States and the traditions out of which it arose, from colonial times through the late twentieth century. Now including an updated bibliography, it presents descriptions of major religious traditions and introduces distinctive American innovations. Included are not only Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, but African American, Native American, and Asian American traditions. The peace churches, "liberal" churches, and Mormonism also are discussed.
Author: George, Susan Ella
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1591407168
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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"This book examines the unique synergy between religion and technology, and explores the many ways that technology is shaping religious expression, as well as ways that religion is coming to influence technology"--Provided by publisher.
Author: David J. Hawkin
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791484610
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Maintains that the secular West has its gods—such as market capitalism—and that veneration of these contributes to the cultural and religious unrest of our time.
Author: Brad Schultz
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498514421
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Book Description
This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around the world. A wonderful addition to any academic course on religion, sports, ethics, or culture as a whole.
Author: Lisbet Christoffersen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317067517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Book Description
In spite of the debate about secularization or de-secularization, the existential-bodily need for religion is basically the same as always. What have been changed are the horizons within which religions are interpreted and the relationships within which religions are integrated. This book explores how religions continue to challenge secular democracy and science, and how religions are themselves being challenged by secular values and practices. All traditions - whether religious or secular - experience a struggle over authority, and this struggle seems to intensify with globalization, as it has brought people around the world in closer contact with each other. In this book internationally leading scholars from sociology, law, political science, religious studies, theology and the religion and science debate, take stock of the current interdisciplinary research on religion and open new perspectives at the cutting edge of the debate on religion in the 21st century.
Author: Rosen Aaron
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500293034
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Book Description
Blaspheming artists get all the press. Some exploit the shock potential of religious imagery - but many also reflect deeply on spiritual matters and are, in fact, some of the most profound and sensitive commentators on religion today. Here, Aaron Rosen shows how religious themes and images permeate the work of contemporary artists from across the globe.
Author: Phillip Charles Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135889023
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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Book Description
New Religious Movements in the 21st Century is the first volume to examine the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal and religious contexts in global perspective. With essays from prominent NRM scholars and usefully organized into four regional areas covering Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and North and South America, as well as a concluding section on the major themes of globalization and terrorist violence, this book provides invaluable insight into the challenges facing religion in the twenty-first century. An introduction by Tom Robbins provides an overview of the major issues and themes discussed in the book.
Author: Steven Paul Jones
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433107641
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Book Description
The fight over the role of religion in public schools is far from finished, and the last and final words have not been written. This collection of original essays reveals and updates the battlefield. Included are essays on school prayer, the evolution/intelligent design debate, public funding of religious groups on university campuses, religious themes in school-taught literature, and more. With diverse tones and points of view, these essays offer quality scholarship while revealing and honoring the heat these themes generate.
