An inside look at how religious diversity came to PrincetonIn 1981, Frederick Houk Borsch returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to serve as dean of the chapel at the Ivy League school.
Why the meaning of sin changed radically during the first centuries of ChristianityAncient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him.
How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class?
How Machiavelli's Christianity shaped his political thoughtTo many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check.
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is widely recognized as one of the greatest philosopher-theologians America has ever produced, and recent years have seen a remarkable increase in research on his writings.
The life and times of a uniquely American testamentIn his retirement, Thomas Jefferson edited the New Testament with a penknife and glue, removing all mention of miracles and other supernatural events.
An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of JavaThis compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing how religious leaders unite diverse aspects of life and contest differing Muslim perspectives to create distinctly Muslim communities.
A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
La sexualidad no solo se ha convertido en un campo esencial de la historia, también se ha apoderado del léxico político: igualdad, dominación, discriminación, libertad, liberación, revolución, etc.
Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius' 'The Consolation of Philosophy' is a philosophical and theological work that delves into themes of fate, free will, and the nature of good and evil.
In 'The Pictures of Slavery in Church and State (Complete Edition)' by John Dixon Long, readers are taken on a thought-provoking journey delving into the complex relationship between slavery, religion, and government.
Fruto de años de investigaciones y decenas de entrevistas con sacerdotes y exsacerdotes, el sociólogo italiano Marco Marzano nos ofrece una perspectiva lúcida sobre la vida sexual del clero.
This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.
The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South AsiaThe first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947.
Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights.
An anthology that examines the historical and contemporary relationship between religion and violenceThis groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence-historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world.
A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God.
Medical technology meets rural, Amish values of simplicity, home health remedies, and unwavering faith in divine providence when a country-boy-turned-country doctor returns to his roots in Ohio.
"For the sake of science is destined, and the highest is proud, and he informed it of a virtue, and the most successful means, the knowledge of the honorable Sharia and the knowledge of its rulings, and the knowledge of the secret of its permissible and forbidden, so it was appointed to support his intention and facilitate his resources to his pioneer, and his help to remember his word and meanings, and to understand his phrases and buildings.
Este libro tiene su origen en el pedido de dejar de difundir los Mensajes de la Virgen del Rosario de San Nicolás (Argentina), porque el catecismo ofrecido por María ya estaba completo; pedido que fue aceptado a nivel central y, como consecuencia, cesó la difusión de nuevos masajes.
Mientras trabajos precedentes se habían focalizado exclusivamente en la trayectoria del Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (MSTM), en este libro Claudia Touris demuestra que la corriente tercermundista en la Argentina fue una red sociorreligiosa más amplia y diversa que se desplegó como una verdadera constelación de actores sociales integrada no solo por los sacerdotes, sino también por religiosas, laicos que pasaron por los ámbitos de sociabilidad católica renovada por el Concilio Vaticano II y otros, como el grupo de Cristianismo y Revolución, que lo conectaron con la vía insurreccional minoritaria en la corriente tercermundista.
La avanzada evangélica en las arenas partidarias latinoamericanas es uno de los acontecimientos más estudiados en el campo de la sociología de la religión y un evento que suscita hondas polémicas en el espacio amplio de la sociedad civil.
La intolerancia, asiento de fundamentalismos, recorre nuestro mundo, donde la marginación y el racismo potencian una cultura del miedo a la diferencia, de pavor por aquello que se percibe como distinto.
En Los fundamentos de una "ilusión", el autor se propone exponer de manera estructurada y para un público ilustrado, mas no necesariamente especialista en filosofía o teología, las reflexiones que conformaron el núcleo de la cátedra de Filosofía de la Religión que mantuvo durante más de tres décadas en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
En Al pan, pan, y al vino vino 2¸ el ingeniero Toribio Tulestilio Avendaño Salas nos revela su experiencia como ateo y sus dificultades para salirse de la llamada haraganería espiritual o ideología marxista, leninista, maoísta, en la que estuvo inserto como consecuencia de la falta de enseñanza oportuna de las virtudes de Dios.
¿Sabía usted que, según la biología moderna, el sexo femenino apareció primero y que el masculino surgió después como una modificación, y no al contrario como lo pretende la Biblia?
A partir del dialogo con las parejas que se acercaban a solicitar informacion sobre la celebracion del matrimonio, y tambien del encuentro con personas que habian vivido el fracaso de su vinculo matrimonial, surgio la inquietud de profundizar acerca de la preparacion al sacramento del matrimonio en el contexto latinoamericano.
Análisis genealógico de la heteronormatividad para comprender el surgimiento, desarrollo e implantación de la heterosexualidad obligatoria como un sistema mundo que ha colonizado y violentado otras posibilidades de amar y vivir juntos.
