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Traces the history of Buddhism Jainism Hinduism Confucianism Taoism Shinto Zorastrianism Judaism Christianity and the Moslem religion
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This book takes a fresh look at the earliest Buddhist texts and offers various suggestions how the teachings in them had developed Two themes predominate Firstly it argues that we cannot understand the Buddha unless we understand that he was debating with other religious teachers notably brahminsThe other main theme concerns metaphor allegory and literalism By taking the words of the texts literally despite the Buddhas warning not to successive generations of his disciples created distinctions and developed doctrines far beyond his original intention Perhaps most important of all a combination of literalism with ignorance of the Buddhas allusions to brahminism led Buddhists to forget that the Buddha had preached that love like Christian charity could itself be directly salvific
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If you wonder how other religions compare with Christianity you should read this book Lester Sumrall explores the history of the leading nonChristian religions and submits their teachings to the Bibles standards of truth You may be surprised to learn how the ideas of the worlds major religions are penetrating American life shaping the way our society thinks and acts
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A major work setting out the inextricable link between politics and religion over the past two centuries from the French Revolution to the present days War on TerrorIn this dazzling and hugely relevant book Michael Burleigh explores the way in which religion broadly construed functions within European societiesEarthly Powers is an examination of the politics of religion and the religion of politics in Europe from the French Revolution until the Great War Its astonishing scope encompasses the philosophers of the Enlightenment and the influence of thinkers like de Maistre and de Bonald and Lamennais as well as the pseudoreligious aspects of Marxism It looks at painters like Zoffany and David and analyses their representations of their times It considers the exploits of OConnell hero of Catholic Emancipation Mazzini Mickiewicz and Garibaldi and goes via nineteenth century English and Russian literature to the epic struggles between Church and State industry and the rise of Christian socialism It concludes with the advent of the old stone gods that heralded the totalitarian political religions of the 20thcenturyThroughout Burleighs writing is never less than brilliant and absorbing handling a welter of ideas and historical detail with confidence verve and sophistication He is always revealing and original showing us the deeper workings of history in a way we have never seen before It confirms him as one of Europes greatest modern historians
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National Jewish Book Awards 2012 FinalistDorot Foundation Award for Modern Jewish Thought and ExperienceAn impassioned erudite thoroughly researched and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues not only that science and religion are compatible but that they complement each otherand that the world needs both nbspAtheism deserves better than the new atheists states Rabbi Jonathan Sacks whose methodology consists of criticizing religion without understanding it quoting texts without contexts taking exceptions as the rule confusing folk belief with reflective theology abusing mocking ridiculing caricaturing and demonizing religious faith and holding it responsible for the great crimes against humanity Religion has done harm I acknowledge that But the cure for bad religion is good religion not no religion just as the cure for bad science is good science not the abandonment of science nbspRabbi Sackss counterargument is that religion and science are the two essential perspectives that allow us to see the universe in its threedimensional depth Science teaches us where we come from Religion explains to us why we are here Science is the search for explanation Religion is the search for meaning We need scientific explanation to understand nature We need meaning to understand human behavior There have been times when religion tried to dominate science And there have been times including our own when it is believed that we can learn all we need to know about meaning and relationships through biochemistry neuroscience and evolutionary psychology In this fascinating look at the interdependence of religion and science Rabbi Sacks explains why both views are tragically wrong
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Charles M Schulzs Peanuts comic strip franchise the most successful of all time forever changed the industry For more than half a century the endearing witty insights brought to life by Charlie Brown Snoopy Linus and Lucy have caused newspaper readers and television viewers across the globe to laugh sigh gasp and ponder A Charlie Brown Religion explores one of the most provocative topics Schulz broached in his heartwarming workreligionBased on new archival research and original interviews with Schulzs family friends and colleagues author Stephen J Lind offers a new spiritual biography of the life and work of the great comic strip artist In his lifetime aficionados and detractors both labeled Schulz as a fundamentalist Christian or as an atheist Yet his deeply personal views on faith have eluded journalists and biographers for decades Previously unpublished writings from Schulz will move fans as they begin to see the nuances of the humorists own complex intense journey toward understanding God and faithThere are three things that Ive learned never to discuss with people Linus says Religion politics and the Great Pumpkin Yet with the support of religious communities Schulz bravely defied convention and dared to express spiritual thought in the funny pages a secular mainstream entertainment medium This insightful thorough study of the 17897 Peanuts newspaper strips seventyfive animated titles and global merchandising empire will delight and intrigue as Schulz considers what it means to believe what it means to doubt and what it means to share faith with the world
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Beginning with the chaotic postWorld War I landscape in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics All the bloody regimes and movements of the 20th century are masterfully captured here from Stalins Soviet Union Hitlers Germany Mussolinis Italy and Francos Spain to the war on terror With style and sophistication Michael Burleigh shows how the churches in their various guises have been swayed byand contributed toconflicting secular currents Sacred Causes brilliantly exposes the way in which fears of socialist movements tempered the churches response to the threat of totalitarian regimes Burleigh combines an authoritative survey of history with a timely reminder of the dangers of radical secularism He asks why no one foresaw the religious implications of massive Third World immigration And he deftly investigates what is now driving calls for a civic religion to counter the terrorist threats that have so shocked the West
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Discovering God is a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age Sociologist Rodney Stark surveys the birth and growth of religions around the worldfrom the prehistoric era of primal beliefs the history of the pyramids found in Iraq Egypt Mexico and Cambodia and the great Axial Age of Plato Zoroaster Confucius and the Buddha to the modern Christian missions and the global spread of Islam He argues for a freemarket theory of religion and for the controversial thesis that under the best unimpeded conditions the true most authentic religions will survive and thrive Among his many conclusionsDespite decades of faulty reports that early religions were crude muddles of superstition it turns out that primitive humans had surprisingly sophisticated notions about God and CreationThe idea of sin appeared suddenly in the sixth century BCE and quickly reshaped religious ideas from Europe to ChinaSome major world religions seem to lack any plausible traces of divine inspirationIronically some famous figures who attempted to found Godless religions ended up being worshiped as GodsMost people believe in the existence of God or Gods and this has apparently been so throughout human history Many modern biologists and psychologists reject these spiritual ideas especially those about the existence of God as delusional They claim that religion is a primitive survival mechanism that should have been discarded as humans evolved beyond the stage where belief in God served any useful purposethat in modern societies faith is a misleading crutch and an impediment to reason In Discovering God awardwinning sociologist Rodney Stark responds to this position arguing that it is our capacity to understand God that has evolvedthat humans now know much more about God than they did in ancient times
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Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern timesWhat is wisdom and how is it cultivated These are among the most important questions we can ask but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times In the twentieth century the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to lifes ills However along with scientific achievements came disasters particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology In an era drenched in data a desire for wisdom has been reborn Where can we go to learn about wisdom The answer is clear to the worlds great religions and their accompanying philosophies and psychologies The Worlds Great Wisdom makes these treasuries available Practitioners from each of the great religionsas well as from Western philosophy and contemporary researchprovide summaries of their traditions understandings of wisdom the means for cultivating it and its implications for the modern world This book offers distillations of the worlds accumulated wisdomancient and modern religious and scientific philosophical and psychological It is a unique resource that for the first time in history brings together our collective understanding of wisdom and the ways to develop it
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This littleknown work by Jeremy Bentham the great English philosopher and originator of utilitarianism was considered so controversial when it was first published in 1822 that Bentham used the pseudonym of Philip Beauchamp The focus of this critical treatise is natural religion a school of thought that maintained one could use human reason alone unaided by faith to deduce the will of God from the natural order As the creator of a system that defined human happiness in terms of a moral calculus based on pleasure and pain Bentham was quite skeptical of all claims of religion Thus it is not surprising that the results of Benthams analysis of the influence of natural religion on human happiness are decidedly negativeDivided into two parts Bentham first criticizes the major tenets of belief in a supreme being and its alleged benefits to humanity Among these criticisms he notes the unreliability and incoherence of religions promises of rewards or punishments after death especially as an inducement to good conduct in this life its generally fuzzy concepts concerning the character and will of God and its inefficiency in preventing commonplace human evils In the second part Bentham catalogues the many ways in which natural religion harms both individuals and society as a whole it taxes the individuals emotional wellbeing with the psychological burdens of fear scruples and guilt prejudices the objectivity of the intellect splinters society into contentious factions and has other negative consequences which he details at lengthAt a time when the Anglican Church was still a highly influential institution in English society it is easy to understand how this work would have been considered controversial Some may still find it so today and it remains an interesting challenge to traditional theism by a firstrate thinker
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