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Author: Rodney Stark
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2004-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780801878442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTogether, 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: Clare Matthiass
Publisher:
Published: 2017-04-20
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780989621250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to help Catholic women discover a vocation to 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.
Author: Juliet Mousseau
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0814645208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten 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: Stephen Bevans
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2018-09-27
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0814684785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: David A. Palmer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09-13
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0199731381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering 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: Frederick J. Streng
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text uses two basic themes to enhance student understanding: 1) the search for an understanding of religious life as an ongoing process; and 2) the need for recognizing a variety of ultimate realities when studying religious pluralism.
Author: Swami Yatiswarananda
Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math(vedantaebooks.org)
Published: 2020-03-07
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of lectures delivered in Bangalore and Philadelphia by Swami Yatiswarananda, a disciple of Swami Brahmananda and the Vice-president of the Ramakrishna Order. The lectures were published in the magazines The Vedanta Kesari, Prabuddha Bharata, Vedanta and the West, and Vedanta for East and West. The lectures extensively deal with pursuing religious life, overcoming obstacles in religious life, achieving inner peace and harmony, and attaining religious experience. Spiritual seekers can derive the much-needed inspiration and succour from these invaluable lectures.
Author: Charles B. Sanford
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780813911311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople 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:
Published: 1830
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
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