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Author : Rodney Stark
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801878446
Together, the essays that constitute Exploring the Religious Life offer an engaging introduction to Rodney Stark's provocative insights and a fearless challenge to academic perceptions about religion's place in history, society, and private life.
Author : Roy Wallis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429678400
This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of new religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions which explains many of their major characteristics. Some of the movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the Process, Meher Baba, and 3-HO are much less known. While some became international, others remained local; in other ways, too, such as style, belief, organisation, they exhibit enormous diversity. The movements studied here are classified under three ideal types, world-rejecting, world-affirming and world-accommodating, and from here the author develops a theory of the origins, recruitment base, characteristics, and development patterns which they display. The book offers a critical exploration of the theories of the new religions and analyses the highly contentious issue of whether they reflect the process of secularisation, or whether they are a countervailing trend marking the resurgence of religion in the West.
Author : Clare Matthiass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Discernment (Christian theology)
ISBN : 0989621251
A guide to help Catholic women discover a vocation to religious life.
Author : Juliet Mousseau,Sarah Kohles
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814645208
Written by a diverse group of younger women religious from North America, In Our Own Words offers a collection of essays on issues central to apostolic religious life today. The thirteen authors represent different congregations, charisms, ministries, and histories. The topics and concerns that shape these chapters emerged naturally through a collaborative process of prayer and conversation. Essays focus on the vows and community life, individual identity and congregational charisms, and leadership among younger members leading into the future. The authors hope these chapters may form a springboard for further conversation on religious life, inviting others to share their experiences of religious life in today's world.
Author : David A. Palmer,Glenn Shive,Philip L. Wickeri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199731381
Offering an introduction to religion in contemporary China, the essays in this volume consider many diverse themes including religion in urban, rural and ethnic minority settings and the historical, sociological, economic and political aspects of religion on the country as a whole.
Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253004499
“Scrupulously prepared and eminently readable,” this volume presents Heidegger’s most important lectures on religion from 1920–21 (Choice). In the early 1920s, Martin Heidegger delivered his famous lecture course, Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, at the University of Freiburg. He also prepared notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was never delivered. Though he never prepared this material for publication, it represents a significant evolution in his philosophical perspective. Heidegger’s engagements with Aristotle, Neoplatonism, St. Paul, Augustine, and Martin Luther give readers a sense of what phenomenology would come to mean in the mature expression of his thought. Heidegger reveals an impressive display of theological knowledge, protecting Christian life experience from Greek philosophy and defending Paul against Nietzsche.
Author : Stephen Bevans,Robin Ryan
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814684788
This is the first book in English on priesthood in religious life to be published in twenty years. Its fourteen contributors search for new ways forward in the understanding of the distinct identity and ministry of religious men—committed to community, the prophetic lifestyle of vows or promises, and the particular charisms of their congregations—who have also answered the call to priesthood. Essays in this collection include reflections from a bishop, from the perspective of a lay theologian, from an expert in the social sciences, and on Pope Francis’s teachings on priesthood. Included as well are essays that are rooted in particular cultural traditions, in spirituality, and in canon law.
Author : Charles B. Sanford
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813911311
People familiar with Jefferson's deism, Unitarianism and enthusiasm for Bible study do not seem to appreciate the importance of his religious beliefs to his political beliefs.
Author : Matthew Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Christian life
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4YRW
Author : Maria Cimperman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1626983801
This book brings together God's call, the cries of the world and of the earth today, and charisms in consecrated life in a way that dynamically engages the vows, prayer, community, and ministry for the particular time and contexts in which we live. Here is a valuable theological and pastoral resource for the conversion, transformation, and revitalization needed in consecrated life today.
Author : Andrew Krivak
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466893818
This gorgeously written memoir tells the story of one man's search for his religious calling-a search that led him to the Dominican Republic and Central Europe, to Moscow and the South Bronx, and finally into married life with a woman whose search for God coincided with his own. In 1990 Andrew Krivak-poet, yacht rigger, ocean lifeguard, student of the classics-entered the Society of Jesus. The heart of Jesuit training is the Long Retreat, thirty days of silence and prayer in which the Jesuit novice reflects on the Gospels and tests his desire for the priesthood. For Krivak, eight years of Jesuit formation turned out to be a long retreat in its own right, as he tested all his desires-for poetry, for travel, for independence, for love-against the pledge to do all "for the greater glory of God." And in this deeply affecting book the long retreat becomes a pattern for our own spiritual lives, enabling us to embrace our desire for solitude and perspective in our own circumstances, the way Krivak has in his new life as a husband, father, and writer. The search for God is finally the search for oneself, St. Augustine wrote. Krivak's story pushes past the awful stories of scandal in the Catholic Church to reveal why a modern, forward-looking man would yearn to be a priest. Unlike those stories, it has an happy ending-one in which we can recognize ourselves.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0816422079
Author : N.J. Allen,W.S.F. Pickering,W. Watts Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134715015
This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. It represents the work of the most important international Durkheim scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy and sociology. The essays focus on key topics including: * the method Durkheim adopted in his study * the role of ritual and belief in society * the nature of contemporary religion The contributors also explore cutting-edge debates about the notion of the soul and collective rituals.
Author : Casey Cole
Publisher : Franciscan Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781632532428
Whether you’re considering a religious vocation or simply trying to lead a Christ-centered life, Franciscan friar Casey Cole has news: Christian life doesn't end with a profession of faith or hearing of God's call. That's when it begins. While the trappings of a professed Franciscan’s life may be different from that of a layperson, the inspiration and foundation are exactly the same: We are disciples of Christ called to live the Gospel in our world. Casey may wear brown while you wear red; he may work at a Church while you work in a school; and he may profess vows of poverty, chastity and obedience while you have yet to make any formal commitments in your life. The expressions may be different, but the life is the same. Based on a series of contagiously enthusiastic blog posts Casey wrote while he was in formation, Called: What Happens After Saying Yes to God reflects on realities that are common to anyone who is serious about living a sincere Christian life and trying to follow the message of Jesus in the Gospels. All Christians must discern God’s call for them. All Christians struggle at times knowing how to pray. All Christians work to be in intimate relationships with others. All Christians are challenged to give of themselves so to rely more on God. All Christians have a mission of building up the kingdom. And all Christians, like it or not, fail along the way. In his own path of discernment and discipleship, Casey has found a life that brings him amazement and wonder, sorrow and joy, encouragement and challenges, and he’s eager to share it all with everyone he can. Called offers inspiration and guidance to all those pursuing a life in Christ, in whatever form that may take. What you wonder, what you struggle with, what you experience in your daily life—you’re not alone. The audio edition of this book can be downloaded via Audible.
Author : Emile Durkheim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981603662
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
