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Author : Paul Michael Hedges
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : LCCN:2014005213
Author : Paul Hedges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216066040
Religious or spiritual beliefs underpin many controversies and conflicts in the contemporary world. Written by a range of scholarly contributors, this three-volume set provides contextual background information and detailed explanations of religious controversies across the globe. Controversies in Contemporary Religion: Education, Law, Politics, Society, and Spirituality is a three-volume set that addresses a wide variety of current religious issues, analyzing religion's role in the rise of fundamentalism, censorship, human rights, environmentalism and sustainability, sexuality, bioethics, and other questions of widespread interest. Providing in-depth context and analysis far beyond what's available in the news or online, this work will enable readers to understand the nature of and reasons for controversies in current headlines. The first volume covers theoretical and academic debates, the second looks at debates in the public square and ethical issues, while the third examines specific issues and case studies. These volumes bring detailed and careful debate of a range of controversies together in one place, including topics not often coveredfor example, how religions promote or hinder social cohesion and peace, the relationship of religions to human rights, and the intersection of Buddhism and violence. Written by a range of experts that includes both established and emerging scholars, the text explains key debates in ways that are accessible and easy to understand for lay readers as well as undergraduate students researching particular issues or global religious trends.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:927384584
Author : Paul Draper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317292746
While orthodox religion by its very nature is conservative, philosophy at its best is inherently radical. It challenges authority, tradition, and the whole idea of "dogma." For this reason, philosophy of religion can be explosively controversial. It is bound to disturb those who peddle incontrovertible truth and fascinate those who seek spiritual truth and are willing to follow the argument wherever it leads. This volume is designed for such seekers. It brings together an international team of leading philosophers of religion to explore and debate radical new ideas about religion, God, and ultimate reality. Four related questions are addressed: How might religion make progress? Is life after death a real possibility? Must a perfect God be motivated by our well-being? What alternatives are there to traditional theism and materialist atheism? The book begins with a vision for the field of philosophy of religion and ends with a capstone chapter that touches on all of the topics debated in the other chapters. The addition of chapter overviews, annotated suggestions for further reading, and annotated guides to three additional controversies make it an ideal textbook in addition to being an important source for scholars and seekers of all kinds.
Author : Christopher Lamb,M. Darroll Bryant
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826437136
Conversion has been an important issue for most of the universal religions - those usually associated with a founder, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism - which have a mission to spread their message. Other religions have been less concerned with conversion except in so far as it has been a negative force for them to confront. This study explores how conversion has been understood by different religions during different eras, and includes a survey of the textual, legal, ritual, historic and experiential dimensions of the phenomenon of conversion.
Author : Afe Adogame,Elizabeth Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317166542
What is the state of Christianity today, and what might it look like in the future? In the West, the story for a long time has revolved around decline and the loss of monopoly status, but how are these shifts changing the practice of Christianity or individual belief? Similarly, the rapid growth of Christianities in the Global South has been well reported, but the continuing complex intersections of mission Christianity with indigenous religions are less well known. Large-scale flows of people across increasingly fluid borders mean that not only does immigration sometimes significantly boost Christian numbers in a given country, but that different forms of Christianity shift traditional religious landscapes. How will emerging trends such as 'reverse mission' from the Global South affect Christianities in areas more used to sending rather than receiving missions? As the majority of believers shifts from the West to the Global South, how will issues such as homosexuality be played out theologically, politically and individually? Will new virtual churches manage to create viable long-term communities? How does new festival Christianity function in the religious life of an individual? The divergent and oftentimes contradictory state of Christianity in the modern world fuels questions about its place and future in the world: in politics, education and healthcare. This book brings together cutting edge research on the most recent changes and trends in Christianity worldwide. Contributors drawn from the USA, UK and Europe, Africa and East Asia offer an invaluable breadth of coverage, expertise and disciplinary perspective at the intersections between sociology of religion, theology, politics, education and human geography.
Author : Paul Hedges
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334047667
A challenging controversial discussion of the current state of the debate about Christianity and other world faiths.
Author : Paul Hedges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781440803420
Religious or spiritual beliefs underpin many controversies and conflicts in the contemporary world. Written by a range of scholarly contributors, this three-volume set provides contextual background information and detailed explanations of religious controversies across the globe. Controversies in Contemporary Religion: Education, Law, Politics, Society, and Spirituality is a three-volume set that addresses a wide variety of current religious issues, analyzing religion's role in the rise of fundamentalism, censorship, human rights, environmentalism and sustainability, sexuality, bioethics, and other questions of widespread interest. Providing in-depth context and analysis far beyond what's available in the news or online, this work will enable readers to understand the nature of and reasons for controversies in current headlines. The first volume covers theoretical and academic debates, the second looks at debates in the public square and ethical issues, while the third examines specific issues and case studies. These volumes bring detailed and careful debate of a range of controversies together in one place, including topics not often covered—for example, how religions promote or hinder social cohesion and peace, the relationship of religions to human rights, and the intersection of Buddhism and violence. Written by a range of experts that includes both established and emerging scholars, the text explains key debates in ways that are accessible and easy to understand for lay readers as well as undergraduate students researching particular issues or global religious trends.
Author : Nancy Bradley Warren
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268105839
Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to consider one of the most canonical of literary figures, Geoffrey Chaucer. The idea that Chaucer is an international writer raises no eyebrows. Similarly, a claim that Chaucer's writings participate in English confessional controversies in his own day and afterward provokes no surprise. This book breaks new ground by considering Chaucer's Continental interests as they inform his participation in religious debates concerning such subjects as female spirituality and Lollardy. Similarly, this project explores the little-studied ways in which those who took religious vows, especially nuns, engaged with works by Chaucer and in the Chaucerian tradition. Furthermore, while the early modern "Protestant Chaucer" is a familiar figure, this book explores the creation and circulation of an early modern "Catholic Chaucer" that has not received much attention. This study seeks to fill gaps in Chaucer scholarship by situating Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international textual environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries and crossing both the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. This book presents a nuanced analysis of the high stakes religiopolitical struggle inherent in the creation of the canon of English literature, a struggle that participates in the complex processes of national identity formation in Europe and the New World alike.
Author : James R. Lewis,Jesper Aa. Petersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199315314
In terms of public opinion, new religious movements are considered controversial for a variety of reasons. Their social organization often runs counter to popular expectations by experimenting with communal living, alternative leadership roles, unusual economic dispositions, and new political and ethical values. As a result the general public views new religions with a mixture of curiosity, amusement, and anxiety, sustained by lavish media emphasis on oddness and tragedy rather than familiarity and lived experience. This updated and revised second edition of Controversial New Religions offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at those groups that have generated the most attention, including some very well-known classical groups like The Family, Unification Church, Scientology, and Jim Jones's People's Temple; some relative newcomers such as the Kabbalah Centre, the Order of the Solar Temple, Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, and the Falun Gong; and some interesting cases like contemporary Satanism, the Raelians, Black nationalism, and various Pagan groups. Each essay combines an overview of the history and beliefs of each organization or movement with original and insightful analysis. By presenting decades of scholarly work on new religious movements written in an accessible form by established scholars as well as younger experts in the field, this book will be an invaluable resource for all those who seek a view of new religions that is deeper than what can be found in sensationalistic media stories.
Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134499823
This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today. Oliver Leaman explores some of the controversies and debates that exist within Islam and between Islam and other religions. He considers how the religion can be defined by looking at the contrast between competing sets of beliefs, and arguments amongst Muslims themselves over the nature of the faith. Areas covered include: Qur’anic interpretation, gender, finance, education, and nationalism. Examples are taken from a range of contexts and illustrate the diversity of approaches to Islam that exists today.
Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134499755
This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today. Oliver Leaman explores some of the controversies and debates that exist within Islam and between Islam and other religions. He considers how the religion can be defined by looking at the contrast between competing sets of beliefs, and arguments amongst Muslims themselves over the nature of the faith. Areas covered include: Qur’anic interpretation, gender, finance, education, and nationalism. Examples are taken from a range of contexts and illustrate the diversity of approaches to Islam that exists today.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004310452
This collection of essays provides scholars in the study of religion occasion to discuss the theoretical and methodological issues raised, to debate and expand upon them, or, in the spirit of scientific inquiry, even to refute the arguments made.
Author : Michael Maasdorp,Richard Arthur DeRemee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1425750672
Liberal Christian theology has challenged traditional beliefs about the Church and the meaning of the life of Jesus Christ. Decline in Church membership, especially in Western Europe, has been attributed to an out-of-date concept of Christian reality by the Church hierarchy. This is a series of debates between a liberal Christian thinker, member of an Anglican religious community, and a physician of conservative views raised in the traditions of the ELCA. The debates were conducted on the Radical Faith web site (http: //homepages.which.net/~radical.faith/index.htm). The debates engage, in topical fashion, some fundamental issues highlighting the differences distinguishing traditional believers from those of the liberal movement. They uncover many hidden attitudes that shape belief and influence change in the modern church. Basically, the debates are odysseys of personal journeys of faith in the context of widely different circumstances. One debater (Mick) is a member of an Anglican religious community, The Society of the Sacred Mission. He was born, raised and educated in South Africa experiencing the raw realities of apartheid and the trials of poor South Africans. After careers as a businessman and parish priest he has devoted himself to writing on matters of faith and maintaining a web site concerning current problems in Christianity. The other debater is a physician (Rick), retired from the Mayo Clinic, who synthesizes his experience both as a medical counselor and life-long Lutheran (ELCA) into his current world view. The discussions are frank but civil bearing on the gaps between traditional and radical notions of Christianity. Often the debates swirl about questions ofnon-material versus strictly material realities that mirror the day to day doubts, hopes and aspirations of Christians in the 21st century.
Author : Michael L. Peterson,Raymond J. VanArragon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119028468
Lively debates on controversial and compelling questions in the philosophy of religion — an updated edition of the bestselling title Building upon the reputation of the first edition, the extensively revised second edition of Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion features fifteen essays which present arguments on some of the most central and controversial topics in philosophy of religion from the discipline’s most influential thinkers. Considering questions of both emerging and perennial interest from atheistic, theistic, and agnostic viewpoints, the book adopts the series structure which pairs essays espousing opposing perspectives on a particular question or theme in an engaging pro and con format. Following accessible introductions to each debate, the volume’s new and newly-revised contributions set the stage for thoughtful and lively discourse between philosophers in philosophy of religion and analytic theology. Debates range from vigorous disagreements between theists and their critics to arguments between theists of different philosophical and theological persuasions, highlighting points of contrast for readers while showcasing the field’s leading minds in dialogue. The head-to-head chapters offer forceful advocacy for some of the most compelling ideas, beliefs, and objections in the philosophy of religion, opening the conversation up to students to weigh the arguments and engage in comparative analysis of the concepts for themselves. Written to appeal to the non-specialist as well as the professional philosopher, Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion is ideal as both a provocative primary text for coursework in analytical theology and philosophy of religion, and as a broad survey of the field for scholars and general readers with an interest in the questions which underpin contemporary philosophy of religion and theology.
