Religious issues and debates

This book explores the rhetoric and public communication of the Catholic Church in the United States in the wake of the sexual abuse scandals and offers a demonstration of how large organizations negotiate a loss of public trust while retaining political power.

For serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Stephen Phillips, a professional philosopher and sanskritist with a long-standing personal practice, lays out the philosophies of action, knowledge, and devotion as well as the processes of meditation, reasoning, and self-analysis that formed the basis of yoga in ancient and classical India and continue to shape it today.

In the wake of the furious demonstrations and debates evoked by terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere, Dr.

Scholars who study the Christian Right often claim that the movement's distinction lies in its moral absolutism and religious fervor.

Media reporting on Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories about terrorism, violence, or the lack of integration with western values and society.

This accessible and comprehensive introduction examines the evidence and offers a coherent picture of Jesus of Nazareth in his context.

Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews.

This book examines the religious attitudes of African American Catholics and their relationships to the church.

Providing an intensive and up-to-date analysis of far-right, ethno-purist and nationalistic currents as well as the inclusive visions for social and ecological change, this book explores the complexities of contemporary Slavic and Germanic Paganisms.

This volume explores contemporary Christian political theology, discussing its traditional sources, its emergence as a discipline, and its key issues.

History in the Soviet Union was a political project.

A stimulating inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries - and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to go one day.

In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of rights?

Through intimate conversations with some of the world's most distinguished scientists (including two Nobel Laureates), Faith in Science invites us to explore the connections between scientific and religious approaches to truth.

Christians are increasingly interested in justice issues.

This is the first volume of a new series of research publications in geography which is published for the Department of Geography, University of Toronto.

Traveling major highways and secondary roads, walking unpaved paths, the author recites contradictions of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, the Holy Land.

Now in its second edition, Grounding Religion explores relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and practices.

Science and religious faith are two of the most important and influential forces in human life, yet there is widespread confusion about how, or indeed whether, they link together.

Examining contestation and conflict management within holy cities, this book provides both an overview and a range of options available to those concerned with this increasingly urgent phenomenon.

Winner, 2017 Ragsdale Award A timely study that puts current issues-religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics-in historical context.

The comparative method is an integral part of religious studies.

Our ecological dilemmas provoke powerful emotions and deeply contested views.

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In einer Zeit des globalen Wandels und gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche gewinnen längst vergessene weibliche Gottheiten neue Bedeutung.

This book addresses key contemporary legal debates from the perspective of the central Christian ethical category of love, agape.

The Quaker World is an outstanding, comprehensive and lively introduction to this complex Christian denomination.

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics is a groundbreaking attempt to present constructive missional theology in an integrative and interdisciplinary framework as it provocatively utilizes and contextualizes Reformation theology and hermeneutics concerning ethical theology embedded within the wider horizon of World Christianity.

This book discusses the evolution of three philosophical foundations from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries that converged to form the basis of liberal democracy's approach to the place and role of religion in society and politics.

Conley calls into question the outdated historical methodologies in use in Christian social ethics and outlines the consequences stemming from them.

One of the most influential social activists of the twentieth century, A.

The Caribbean does not immediately come to mind when we think about ISIS – and yet, in 2017, Trinidad and Tobago ranked first place in the list of western countries with the highest rates of foreign-fighter radicalization, with over 240 nationals travelling to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS' caliphate.

This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family.

Officials and religious scholars in the Gulf states have repeatedly banned the teaching of the theory of evolution because of its association with atheism.

Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey.

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What can atheists tell us about religious life?

This book explains why moral systems necessarily develop and why they take the various forms that they do.

Covering the nonviolence traditions in all the major religions as well as the contributions of religious traditions to major nonviolent practices, this book addresses theories of nonviolence, considers each religion individually, and highlights what discrete religious perspectives have in common.

As modernity gives way to postmodernity, we are witnessing the emergence of a post-political age.

In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs.

The scientific study of Buddhist forms of meditation has surged in recent years, capturing the popular imagination and reshaping conceptions of what meditation is and what it can do.

The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of 'World Christianity,' which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion.

Over the past decade a strident public debate has arisen about the nature and origin of religions.

Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia.

In his book Faithonomics, K.

Originally published in 1995 this is the fifth volume in the series Creationism in 20th Century America.

Drawing from philosophy, religion, biology, behavioral and social sciences, and the arts, The Routledge International Handbooks of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, Volumes I and II, present cutting-edge scholarship about the concept of character across the life span, the developmental and contextual bases of character, and the key organizations of societal sectors, within and across nations, that promote character development in individuals, families, and communities.