A massive religious transformation has unfolded over the past forty years in Latin America and the Caribbean. In a region where the Catholic Church could once claim a near monopoly of adherents, religious pluralism has fundamentally altered the social and religious landscape.onversion of a Continent"" brings together twelve original essays that document and explore competing explanations for how and why conversion has occurred. Contributors draw on various insights from social movement theory to...
What Is It Like To Be Dead? (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism)
by Jens Schlieter
Studies of "near-death experiences" show that such experiences not only provide a new certainty of post-mortem survival, but often function as a call for fundamental change in the present. Reported aftereffects encompass changes in attitudes, beliefs, and life orientation. It is said that "experiencers" have lost their fear of death, found their purpose in life, or become "more spiritual." The experience often declared to be indescribable, inexplicable, or ineffable is held by many to be the m...
Christmas Time Lined Notebook Writing Pad Sketchbook
by Hohoho by Tw Notebooks
The Conception of God. a Philosophical Discussion Concerning the Nature of the Divine Idea as a Demonstrable Reality
by Josiah Royce, Joseph LeConte, and George Holmes Howison
Through a Glass Darkly
An updated edition showcasing the social health of the least religious nations in the world Religious conservatives around the world often claim that a society without a strong foundation of faith would necessarily be an immoral one, bereft of ethics, values, and meaning. Indeed, the Christian Right in the United States has argued that a society without God would be hell on earth. In Society without God, Second Edition sociologist Phil Zuckerman challenges these claims. Drawing on fieldwork and...
Religion has jumped into the sphere of global and domestic politics in ways that few would have imagined a century ago. Some expected that religion would die as modernity flourished. Instead, it now stares at us almost daily from the front pages of newspapers and television broadcasts. Although it is usually stories about the Christian Right or conservative Islam that grab headlines, there are many religious activists of other political persuasions that are working quietly for social justice. Th...
Presents the response of nearly two hundred prominent figures to a question concerning their belief in God, and features the replies of Lee Iacocca, Roy Campanella, Joseph Papp, Gloria Steinem, Edward Koch, and Arthur C. Clarke
Experience of God, The: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
by David Bentley Hart
