Re Treating Religion

Author : Alena Alexandrova,Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823234646

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Re-treating Religion by Alena Alexandrova,Jean-Luc Nancy Pdf

One of the most complicated and ambiguous tendencies in contemporary western societies is the phenomenon referred to as the "turn to religion." In philosophy, one of the most original thinkers critically questioning this "turn" is Jean-Luc Nancy. Re-treating Religion is the first volume to analyze his long-term project "The Deconstruction of Christianity," especially his major statement of it in Dis-Enclosure. Nancy conceives monotheistic religion and secularization not as opposite worldviews that succeed each other in time but rather as springing from the same history. This history consists in a paradoxical tendency to contest one's own foundations--whether God, truth, origin, humanity, or rationality--as well as to found itself on the void of this contestation. Nancy calls this unique combination of self-contestation and self-foundation the "self-deconstruction" of the Western world. The book includes discussion with Nancy himself, who contributes a substantial "Preamble" and a concluding dialogue with the volume editors. The contributions follow Nancy in tracing the complexities of Western culture back to the persistent legacy of monotheism, in order to illuminate the tensions and uncertainties we face in the twenty-first century.

Author : Ignaas Devisch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Deconstruction
ISBN : 0823268993

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Re-Treating Religion by Ignaas Devisch Pdf

Author : Alena Alexandrova,Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823234657

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Re-treating Religion by Alena Alexandrova,Jean-Luc Nancy Pdf

One of the most complicated and ambiguous tendencies in contemporary western societies is the phenomenon referred to as the turn to religion. In philosophy, one of the most original thinkers critically questioning this turn is Jean-Luc Nancy. Re-treating Religion is the first volume to analyze his long-term project The Deconstruction of Christianity, especially his major statement of it in Dis-Enclosure.Nancy conceives monotheistic religion and secularization not as opposite worldviews that succeed each other in time but rather as springing from the same history. This history consists in a paradoxical tendency to contest one's own foundations-whether God, truth, origin, humanity, or rationality-as well as to found itself on the void of this contestation. Nancy calls this unique combination of self-contestation and self-foundation the self-deconstructionof the Western world.The book includes discussion with Nancy himself, who contributes a substantial Preambleand a concluding dialogue with the volume editors. The contributions follow Nancy in tracing the complexities of Western culture back to the persistent legacy of monotheism, in order to illuminate the tensions and uncertainties we face in the twenty-first century.

Author : John J. Fitzgerald,Ashley John Moyse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351050852

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Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion by John J. Fitzgerald,Ashley John Moyse Pdf

Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological machine to be examined, understood, and controlled. This book begins by asking whether the modern medical milieu has overly objectified the body, unwittingly or not, and whether current studies in bioethics are up to the task of restoring a fuller understanding of the human person. In response, various authors here suggest that a more theological/religious approach would be helpful, or perhaps even necessary. Presenting specific perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the book is divided into three parts: "Understanding the Body," "Respecting the Body," and "The Body at the End of Life." A panel of expert contributors—including philosophers, physicians, and theologians and scholars of religion— answer key questions such as: What is the relationship between body and soul? What are our obligations toward human bodies? How should medicine respond to suffering and death? The resulting text is an interdisciplinary treatise on how medicine can best function in our societies. Offering a new way to approach the medical humanities, this book will be of keen interest to any scholars with an interest in contemporary religious perspectives on medicine and the body.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000044852269

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The Treatment of Religious Minorities in Western Europe by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations Pdf

Author : Hansjörg Dilger,Thera Rasing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317068198

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Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa by Hansjörg Dilger,Thera Rasing Pdf

This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the Aids epidemic. Spanning different regions of Africa, the authors offer unique access to issues at the interface of religion and medical humanitarianism and the manifold therapeutic traditions, religious practices and moralities as they co-evolve in situations of AIDS treatment. This book also sheds new light on how religious spaces are formed in response to the dilemmas people face with the introduction of life-prolonging treatment programmes.

Author : Kenneth Winston Caine,Brian Paul Kaufman
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609612634

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Prayer, Faith & Healing by Kenneth Winston Caine,Brian Paul Kaufman Pdf

Tap the power of prayer and faith to heal whatever ails you. Prayer and faith can be potent cures for a whole host of emotional and physical problems. Hundreds of scientific studies prove it! But how do you access this hidden strength? Prayer, Faith, and Healing will show you how with: * Advice from more than 160 of America's top religious leaders, counselors, doctors, and scientists * More than 500 tips for handling anger, addiction, depression, divorce, grief, stress, infidelity, financial problems, and over 40 other conditions * Plus, nearly 30 ways to build a more meaningful prayer life The most complete, most compelling advice ever gathered on how to heal yourself with prayer.

Author : James Andrew Corcoran,Patrick John Ryan,Edmond Francis Prendergast
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074635395

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The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran,Patrick John Ryan,Edmond Francis Prendergast Pdf

Author : Mal Leicester,Sohan Modgil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135698621

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Spiritual and Religious Education by Mal Leicester,Sohan Modgil Pdf

Volume V distinguishes religious and spiritual education and takes a multi-faith approach to pedagogic, curricular and resource issues. The important area of collective worship is also addressed.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PURD:32754073192282

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Effective Faith-based Treatment Programs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources Pdf

Author : Graeme T. Laurie,Shawn Harmon,Gerard Porter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 9780198747512

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Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics by Graeme T. Laurie,Shawn Harmon,Gerard Porter Pdf

This is an analysis of medical ethical concepts based on legal principles and court decisions, describing what actually happens in practice rather than what should happen and, where there are no precedents available, what is most likely to happen.

Author : Andrew Hudleston (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Christian life
ISBN : NLS:V000300732

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Plain and Popular Subjects of Religion and Morality, Treated in a Plain and Popular Manner by Andrew Hudleston (D.D.) Pdf

Author : Patricia M. Lines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Private schools
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003579153

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Treatment of Religion in Public Schools and the Impact on Private Education by Patricia M. Lines Pdf

Author : Jerry A. Coyne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780698195516

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Faith Versus Fact by Jerry A. Coyne Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail. What we read in the news today is full of subjectivity, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods; and thus it is more necessary now than ever to safeguard the truth with facts. In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne aims to do exactly that in the arena of religion. In clear, dispassionate detail he explains why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion—including faith, dogma, and revelation—leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions. Coyne is responding to a national climate in which over half of Americans don’t believe in evolution (and congressmen deny global warming), and warns that religious prejudices and strictures in politics, education, medicine, and social policy are on the rise. Extending the bestselling works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, he demolishes the claims of religion to provide verifiable “truth” by subjecting those claims to the same tests we use to establish truth in science. Coyne irrefutably demonstrates the grave harm—to individuals and to our planet—in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in.

Author : Minot Judson Savage
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0260310506

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The Passing and the Permanent in Religion by Minot Judson Savage Pdf

Excerpt from The Passing and the Permanent in Religion: A Plain Treatment of the Great Essentials of Religion, Being a Sifting Religions die, while religion is universal, per manent and progressive theologies Change and pass, but so long as man thinks, he will think and theorise, though imperfectly, about the greatest of all themes man has always speculated about the universe and, in later times, has studied it, and his theories about it always have been and always must be intimately associated with both his religion and his theology man at first regarded himself as made suddenly by fiat power, but he has learned that he has evolved from lower forms of life, while his religions and his theologies have kept step with his own advance bibles have been the natural expression of man's hopes, fears and aspirations at the different stages of his advance, not creating religion, but being created by it gods have been the best ideals which man has been able to imagine, at different steps of his advance, of the one Eternal, of whose life all things are only the changing and passing expression saviours have taken Shape in accord with man's thoughts of the evils from which he supposed he needed to be delivered, and all are entitled to that name who have helped to deliver the race from any of its evils, though this may not interfere with the supremacy of one worship has taken shape accord ing to man's changing theories of the powers he has thought of as being able to help or hurt him, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.