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Author: Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher: Oxford : Oneworld
Published: 1998-07
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this text, Smith is interested not so much in drawing a general outline ofhe different world faiths through their "facts", as giving an insight intohe personal significance of these "facts" for the individuals who practiseheir respective faiths.
Author: Timothy P. Mahoney
Publisher:
Published: 2017-04-30
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780986431043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expanded study guide related to the documentary film, "Patterns of Evidence, The Exodus"
Author: Ellen Bradshaw Aitken
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2017-03-15
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1438464703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916–2000), whose intellectual and institutional contributions helped shape the field of religious studies in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a young scholar, Smith taught Indian and Islamic history in Lahore for several years and witnessed the partition of India. Upon his return to North America, he obtained his PhD at Princeton University before embarking upon a long and distinguished career. He founded the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University and served as director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. Smith emphasized the place of the scholarly study of Islam in the Western academy long before Islam occupied its current position at the center of global politics, challenged the notion of monolithic world religions, and argued for the importance of dialogical processes and a personalist approach to the study of religion. Contributors to this volume, many of whom were Smith's students, provide a wide-ranging exploration of his influence and legacy.
Author: Philip Jenkins
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781481312608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemography drives religious change. High-fertility societies, like most of contemporary Africa, tend to be fervent and devout. The lower a population's fertility rates, the greater the tendency for people to detach from organized or institutional religion. Thus, fertility rates supply an effective gauge of secularization trends. In Fertility and Faith, Philip Jenkins maps the demographic revolution that has taken hold of many countries around the globe in recent decades and explores the implications for the future development of the world's religions. Demographic change has driven the secularization of contemporary Western Europe, where the revolution began. Jenkins shows how the European trajectory of rapid declines in fertility is now affecting much of the globe. The implications are clear: the religious character of many non-European areas is highly likely to move in the direction of sweeping secularization. And this is now reshaping the United States itself. This demographic revolution is reshaping Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. In order to accommodate the new social trends, these religions must adapt to situations where large families are no longer the norm. Each religious tradition will develop distinctive emphases concerning morality, gender, and sexuality, as well as the roles of clergy and laity in the faith's institutional structures. Radical change follows great upheaval. The tidal shift is well underway. With Fertility and Faith, Philip Jenkins describes this ongoing phenomenon and envisions our collective religious future.
Author: Francis Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1847396151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?
Author: Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781451420142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.
Author: Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 1529
ISBN-13: 0761927298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents entries A to L of a two-volume encyclopedia discussing religion around the globe, including biographies, concepts and theories, places, social issues, movements, texts, and traditions.
Author: Derek Tidball
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2009-05-29
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0830838597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on pastoral leadership within local churches or groups of churches, Derek Tidball provides a comprehensive survey of the variety of ministry models and patterns found in the New Testament with applications for today's ministry.
Author: James L. Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1317131894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe academic study of Indigenous Religions developed historically from missiological and anthropological sources, but little analysis has been devoted to this classification within departments of religious studies. Evaluating this assumption in the light of case studies drawn from Zimbabwe, Alaska and shamanic traditions, and in view of current debates over 'primitivism', James Cox mounts a defence for the scholarly use of the category 'Indigenous Religions'.
Author: Ninian Smart
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781847240576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor a contemporary world in which religious belief exercises a more potent - some might say more dangerous - influence on global events than many would have thought possible a generation ago, the nature and interpretation of the core tenets of religious faith has become a matter of compelling and widespread interest, both within and outside practising religious communities.Each of the 14 chapters of Sacred Texts is devoted to one of the principal religious and other belief systems of humanity, both defunct and extant. The chapters follow a consistent pattern: a short and accessible introduction to the faith in question, followed by extracts that clearly illustrate its mythic narratives, its spiritual and theological doctrines, its central moral teachings, its rituals and modes of worship, and its mystical traditions. Accompanying notes make clear the meanings of all the quoted passages. Taken together, the extracts provide a rounded and coherent picture of each religious tradition.Sacred Texts covers not only Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism and Sikhism, but also small-scale traditional religions, new religions, and secular worldviews such as humanism. It is an essential reference for those who wish to understand the nature - and continuing appeal - of religious belief in a globalised, multi-faith world.
