Form and Substance in the Religions
Author: Frithjof Schuon
Publisher:
Published: 2005-12-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9788182749962
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Unearthly Powers
Author: Alan Strathern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1108477143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.
God, the Substance of All Form
Author: Joel S. Goldsmith
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: 2010-12
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781891396366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2010 Reprint of 1962 edition. In this work Goldsmith develops the theme that God is the substance and essence of all forms, whether that form appears as man, animal, vegetable or mineral. Spirit underlies all effects, and the recognition of this truth shifts the emphasis from dependence on persons or things to a complete dependence on spirit. Because God is individual consciousness, your consciousness is infinite, and as you become more aware of the infinite nature of your consciousness, that consciousness begins to appear in infinite forms of good. Then you understand the great truth that nothing can be added to you, and nothing can be taken from you: you are eternally complete and whole because embodied within you is the substance of all life.
The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life
Author: Roy Wallis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0429678401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy
Author: Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1935493094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to the writings of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998), the pre-eminent spokesman of the Perennialist or Traditionalist school of comparative religious thought, is the first book to present a comprehensive study of his intellectual and spiritual message. In addition to a clear explanation of Schuon's message of metaphysics and the great religions, Oldmeadow includes an overview of Schuon's paintings and poetry, and insights on prayer and virtue in the spiritual life.
Plato and Paul
Author: James William Mendenhall
Publisher:
Published: 1886
Total Pages: 792
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRitual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Author: Roy A. Rappaport
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-03-25
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780521296908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, seeing it as co-extensive with the invention of language and hence of culture as we know it. At the same time he assembles the fullest study yet of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions which we take to be religious and has been central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative religion, and elsewhere.
Between Naturalism and Religion
Author: Jürgen Habermas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-11-06
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0745694608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age – the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the same time, we are witnessing an unexpected revitalization of religious traditions and the politicization of religious communities across the world. From a philosophical perspective, this revival of religious energies poses the challenge of a fundamentalist critique of the principles underlying the modern Wests postmetaphysical understanding of itself. The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this major new book by Jürgen Habermas. On the one hand he argues for an appropriate naturalistic understanding of cultural evolution that does justice to the normative character of the human mind. On the other hand, he calls for an appropriate interpretation of the secularizing effects of a process of social and cultural rationalization increasingly denounced by the champions of religious orthodoxies as a historical development peculiar to the West. These reflections on the enduring importance of religion and the limits of secularism under conditions of postmetaphysical reason set the scene for an extended treatment the political significance of religious tolerance and for a fresh contribution to current debates on cosmopolitanism and a constitution for international society.
Religion as Art Form
Author: Carl L. Jech
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2013-05-09
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1620329107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you find books such as Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion compelling but your faith heritage is also important to you, this book shows how you can affirm both. Taking a cue from Marcus Borg's contention that "scriptural literalism" is for many people a major impediment to authentic spirituality, Carl Jech describes how all religion can and should be much more explicit about its symbolic, metaphorical, and artistic nature. With a particular focus on mortality and the relationship of humans to eternity, the book affirms a postmodern understanding of "God" as ultimate eternal Mystery and of spirituality as an artistic, (w)holistic, visionary, and creative process of becoming at home in the universe as it really is with all its joys and sorrows. Religion as Art Form is a must-read for those who think of themselves as spiritual but not religious.
Roadside Religion
Author: Timothy Beal
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2006-05-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780807010631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the summer of 2002, Timothy K. Beal loaded his family into a twenty-nine-foot-long motor home and hit the rural highways of America in search of roadside religious attractions-sites like the World's Largest Ten Commandments and Precious Moments Chapel. Roadside Religion tells of his attempts to understand the meaning of these places as expressions of religious imagination and experience, and to encounter faith in all its awesome absurdity.
