Killed by Religion
Title | Killed by Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Kelley Zellner |
Publisher | Tate Publishing |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2011-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1617775908 |
Things are changing! Are you prepared? How deep, how far, or how spiritual will these changes reach in to your life? 'First of all we must all get our mind wrapped around the fact that we are not human beings. We are immortal spiritual being having a human experience. One might think of it as we spiritual organisms in a physical wrapper somewhat like that gum that comes in the twist wrapper.' It is time to prepare for the inevitable. Killed by Religion will prepare you for your final journey as Dr. Kelley Zellner walks you through the necessary connections. When others want to keep you in the dark, Killed by Religion will be your connection to the light.
The Future of Islam
Title | The Future of Islam PDF eBook |
Author | John L. Esposito |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2010-02-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 019974596X |
John L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. Now, in this brilliant portrait of Islam today--and tomorrow--he draws on a lifetime of thought and research to sweep away the negative stereotypes and provide an accurate, richly nuanced, and revelatory account of the fastest growing religion in the world. Here Esposito explores the major questions and issues that face Islam in the 21st century and that will deeply affect global politics. Are Islam and the West locked in a deadly clash of civilizations? Is Islam compatible with democracy and human rights? Will religious fundamentalism block the development of modern societies in the Islamic world? Will Islam overwhelm the Western societies in which so many Muslim immigrants now reside? Will Europe become Eurabia or will the Muslims assimilate? Which Muslim thinkers will be most influential in the years to come? To answer this last question he introduces the reader to a new generation of Muslim thinkers--Tariq Ramadan, Timothy Winter, Mustafa Ceric, Amina Wadud, and others--a diverse collection of Muslim men and women, both the "Martin Luthers" and the "Billy Grahams" of Islam. We meet religious leaders who condemn suicide bombing and who see the killing of unarmed men, women, and children as "worse than murder," who preach toleration and pluralism, who advocate for women's rights. The book often underscores the unexpected similarities between the Islamic world and the West and at times turns the mirror on the US, revealing how we appear to Muslims, all to highlight the crucial point that there is nothing exceptional about the Muslim faith. Recent decades have brought extraordinary changes in the Muslim world, and in addressing all of these issues, Esposito paints a complex picture of Islam in all its diversity--a picture of urgent importance as we face the challenges of the coming century.
Death and Religion in a Changing World
Title | Death and Religion in a Changing World PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Garces-Foley |
Publisher | M.E. Sharpe |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780765612212 |
Looking at how religious people approach death in the twenty-first century, this is a comprehensive study of the intersection of death and religion. It describes how people from a variety of faiths draw on and adapt traditional beliefs and practices as they deal with death in modern societies.
Has Science Killed God?
Title | Has Science Killed God? PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Alexander |
Publisher | SPCK |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2019-11-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0281081352 |
World-leading experts tackle challenging issues of science and faith. Here are 20 papers from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, which is a UK educational charity, and a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation which is an affiliate of Cambridge University. In addition to academic research, the Institute engages in the public understanding of science and religion by means of courses, conferences, lectures, seminars and the media. The Faraday Papers provide the general reader with accessible and readable introductions to the relationship between science and religion, written by a broad range of authors who are expert in the field. They are intended to be read by those without a scientific background. Here they are collected for the first time into a single volume. Contributors include: Has Science Killed God? - Prof. Alister McGrath FRSA The Science and Religion Debate, an Introduction - Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS Why Care for the Environment? - Prof. Sir John Houghton FRS Ethical Issues in Genetic Modification - Prof. John Bryant The Age of the Earth - Prof. Bob White FRS Creation and Evolution not Creation or Evolution - Prof. R.J. Berry FRSE
For God's Sake
Title | For God's Sake PDF eBook |
Author | Antony Loewenstein |
Publisher | Macmillan Publishers Aus. |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2013-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1743289138 |
Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world? and Where do we find hope? We are introduced to the detail of different belief systems - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - and to the argument that atheism, like organised religion, has its own compelling logic. And we gain insight into the life events that led each author to their current position. Jane Caro flirted briefly with spiritual belief, inspired by 19th century literary heroines such as Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontë sisters. Antony Lowenstein is proudly culturally, yet unconventionally, Jewish. Simon Smart is firmly and resolutely a Christian, but one who has had some of his most profound spiritual moments while surfing. Rachel Woodlock grew up in the alternative embrace of Baha'i belief but became entranced by its older parent religion, Islam. Provocative, informative and passionately argued, For God's Sake encourages us to accept religious differences but to also challenge more vigorously the beliefs that create discord.
On Death
Title | On Death PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Keller |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0143135376 |
From New York Times bestselling author and pastor Timothy Keller, a book about facing the death of loved ones, as well as our own inevitable death Significant events such as birth, marriage, and death are milestones in our lives in which we experience our greatest happiness and our deepest grief. And so it is profoundly important to understand how to approach and experience these occasions with grace, endurance, and joy. In a culture that does its best to deny death, Timothy Keller--theologian and bestselling author--teaches us about facing death with the resources of faith from the Bible. With wisdom and compassion, Keller finds in the Bible an alternative to both despair or denial. A short, powerful book, On Death gives us the tools to understand the meaning of death within God's vision of life.
The Puritan Way of Death
Title | The Puritan Way of Death PDF eBook |
Author | David E. Stannard |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 1977-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190281189 |
The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Ariès, William Clebsch, and Robert Nisbet-hailed it as a "pathbreaking, provocative, and exciting" work, a "terse, urbane, learned, clear, humane" volume.