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Religion Society Spirituality Taoism - HOME Religion Society Spirituality Taoism Wisdom from World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven on Earth by John Marks Templeton, Every religion has an assemblage of acknowledged spiritual ideas or truths. Wisdom from World Religions brings these spiritual laws to life, offering a selection of readings from the teaching of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, Zen, and Zoroastrianism. Included are modern-day and ancient parables, disciplines, and quotations that may advocate beneficial growth opportunities for inquiring and open minds. Wisdom's content and format can provide useful guidance for individuals, families, ...

Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality - HOME Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of religion in primitive Japanese society, they chart the growth of each of Japan's major religious organizations and doctrinal systems. They follow Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, and popular religious belief through major periods of change to show how history and religion affected each other -- and discuss the interactions between the different religious traditions. A History of Japanese Religion closes with discussions of ...

Religion Society Spirituality - HOME Religion Society Spirituality The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism by Hans A. Baer, Spiritual churches in the United States represent one of several religious movements that African Americans have adopted in their efforts to cope with mainstream society. In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1984, Hans A. Baer explores the richness and creativity of Black Spiritualism. It sets forth an illuminating ethnography of the movement that corrects numerous stereotypes of African American religion. Baer shows that the Spiritual churches blend diverse elements, borrowing aspects of African American Protestantism, ...

Modern Movement Religion Society Spirituality - HOME Modern Movement Religion Society Spirituality Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain by Peter Van Der Veer, X Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity ...

Meditation Practice Religion Society Spirituality Yoga - HOME Meditation Practice Religion Society Spirituality Yoga Wisdom Roads: Conversations with Remarkable Meditation Masters by Lawrence G. Muller, Laurence Freeman, Swami Satchidananda, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Edward McCorkell, Swami Shankarananda, Shree Chitrabhanu, Wayne Teasdale, and Bhante Gunaratana agree -- meditation is for everyone. It is the practical, experience-based wisdom at the core of all religions and at the very heart of the spiritual life. This book of plain-speaking conversations brings together outstanding contemporary teachers of meditation from quite diverse yet very accessible wisdom traditions, including Christian Meditation, Contemplative Prayer, and Christian Sannyasa; Buddhist ...

Divination Ogham Religion Society Spirituality - HOME Divination Ogham Religion Society Spirituality The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria by Marta Moreno Vega, Long cloaked in protective secrecy, demonized by Western society, and distorted by Hollywood, Santeria is at last emerging from the shadows with an estimated 75 million "orisha followers worldwide. In "The Altar of My Soul, Marta Moreno Vega recounts the compelling true story of her journey from ignorance and skepticism to initiation as a Yoruba priestess in the Santeria religion. This unforgettable spiritual memoir reveals the long-hidden roots and traditions of a ...

Gnosticism Religion Society Spirituality - HOME Gnosticism Religion Society Spirituality Jung's Thoughts on God: The Religious Depths of Our Psyches by Donald Dyer, C. G. JUNG has been called an atheist, a modern Gnostic/heretical theologian, and a critical philosopher. He viewed himself as an empirical psychologist, but he was born to a Christian minister's family and raised in close proximity to the church. His childhood memories were of his early perceptions of God. One of the more appealing aspects of C. G. Jung's work is his exploration of the religious instinct -- the images that ...

Religion and Spirituality Ethical Culture Society - HOME Religion and Spirituality Ethical Culture Society Faith in the Future by Johnathan Sacks, In this book the chief rabbi addresses some of the major themes of our time: the fragmentation of our common culture, the breakdown of family and community life, the lack of moral direction, and the waning of religious belief. How, he asks, can we construct a humane social order that honors human dignity and difference, one in which we can be both true to ourselves and a blessing to others? In the confusing state of post-industrial societies in ...

Romanticism Religion - HOME Romanticism Religion Romanticism and Transcendence by J. Robert Barth, Grounded in the thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romanticism and Tranascendence explores the religious dimensions of imagination in the Romantic tradition, both theoretically and in the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge. J. Robert Barth suggests that we may look to Coleridge for the theoretical grounding of the view of religious imagination proposed in this book, but that it is in Wordsworth above all that we see this imagination at work. Barth first discusses the relationship between Romanticism and religion, arguing that the Romantic ...

Hindu Religion - HOME Hindu Religion The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hinduism by Linda Johnsen, A comprehensive guide to Hindu religion and culture. -- Although there are many books that touch on some aspects of Hinduism, there is nothing out there that seems to be true competition to this book-no comprehensive introduction to Hinduism. Most books that come up under the subject of Hinduism don't even have Hindu or Hinduism included in the title. -- Compared to what little competition does exist, this book will be much more approachable and fun-to-read., especially for ...

Hinduism Religion - HOME Hinduism Religion The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hinduism by Linda Johnsen, A comprehensive guide to Hindu religion and culture. -- Although there are many books that touch on some aspects of Hinduism, there is nothing out there that seems to be true competition to this book-no comprehensive introduction to Hinduism. Most books that come up under the subject of Hinduism don't even have Hindu or Hinduism included in the title. -- Compared to what little competition does exist, this book will be much more approachable and fun-to-read., especially for ...

American Beyond Origin Pluralism Religious Toleration - HOME American Beyond Origin Pluralism Religious Toleration Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics by Akel Ismail Kahera, "This text will be the classic work in the field. . . . It will be extremely useful for general Islamic studies, for studies of religion in America, and for the study of Islam in America."--Aminah Beverly McCloud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, DePaul University, ChicagoFrom the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes ...

True Religion Brand Jeans - HOME True Religion Brand Jeans The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti by Leslie G. Desmangles, Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants' beliefs and practices. Desmangles sees Vodou not simply as a grafting of European religious traditions onto African stock, but as a true creole phenomenon, born out ...

Oglala Religion Religion Spirituality - HOME Oglala Religion Religion Spirituality Women and World Religions by Lucinda Joy Peach, The title of this anthology, Women and World Religions, was chosen deliberately to emphasize that its primary focus is on "actual" women and their experiences as active agents of their spiritual lives--as opposed to women in religion as goddesses or other images and symbols of females that are found in religious myths, art, and scriptures. This book explores how women from many parts of the world have thought about, acted, and been treated as members of a religious tradition. ...

Man True Religion Jeans - HOME Man True Religion Jeans Ten Secrets for the Man in the Mirror by Patrick Morley, If You Do What You've Always Done, You Will Be What You've Always Been.Gut-level and frank--short enough to read on a single plane trip!Best-selling author Patrick Morley shakes up the existing messages about how men find happiness. In this paradigm-busting book, Morley challenges your comfort zone with neglected biblical insights about happiness that many have been afraid to utter in this me-first generation. You already know that money and ... a guiding purpose the rat race can't begin to offer.True happiness has everything to do with the kind of man you are and whose man you are. The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti by Leslie G. Desmangles, Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants' beliefs and ...