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Author | : Elaine Pagels |
Publisher | : HarperLuxe |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780062860989 |
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Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions. These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels when dealing with unimaginable loss—the death of her young son, followed a year later by the shocking loss of her husband. Here she interweaves a personal story with the work that she loves, illuminating how, for better and worse, religious traditions have shaped how we understand ourselves; how we relate to one another; and, most importantly, how to get through the most difficult challenges we face. Drawing upon the perspectives of neurologists, anthropologists, and historians, as well as her own research, Pagels opens unexpected ways of understanding persistent religious aspects of our culture. A provocative and deeply moving account from one of the most compelling religious thinkers at work today, Why Religion? explores the spiritual dimension of human experience.
Author | : Thomas Moore |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-01-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0698148592 |
Download A Religion of One's Own Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The New York Times bestselling author and trusted spiritual adviser offers a follow-up to his classic Care of the Soul. Something essential is missing from modern life. Many who’ve turned away from religious institutions—and others who have lived wholly without religion—hunger for more than what contemporary secular life has to offer but are reluctant to follow organized religion’s strict and often inflexible path to spirituality. In A Religion of One’s Own, bestselling author and former monk Thomas Moore explores the myriad possibilities of creating a personal spiritual style, either inside or outside formal religion. Two decades ago, Moore’s Care of the Soul touched a chord with millions of readers yearning to integrate spirituality into their everyday lives. In A Religion of One’s Own, Moore expands on the topics he first explored shortly after leaving the monastery. He recounts the benefits of contemplative living that he learned during his twelve years as a monk but also the more original and imaginative spirituality that he later developed and embraced in his secular life. Here, he shares stories of others who are creating their own path: a former football player now on a spiritual quest with the Pueblo Indians, a friend who makes a meditative practice of floral arrangements, and a well-known classical pianist whose audiences sometimes describe having a mystical experience while listening to her performances. Moore weaves their experiences with the wisdom of philosophers, writers, and artists who have rejected materialism and infused their secular lives with transcendence. At a time when so many feel disillusioned with or detached from organized religion yet long for a way to move beyond an exclusively materialistic, rational lifestyle, A Religion of One’s Own points the way to creating an amplified inner life and a world of greater purpose, meaning, and reflection.
Author | : Andre-Jean Festugiere |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2023-07-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520317076 |
Download Personal Religion Among the Greeks Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.
Author | : David N Elkins |
Publisher | : Quest Books |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0835630587 |
Download Beyond Religion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Let David Elkins, psychologist and former minister, show you how to find authentic, soul-nurturing spirituality outside church or temple walls. Discover your personal path to the sacred and explore new ways to bring nonreligious spirituality into your life.
Author | : John Baines |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801497865 |
Download Religion in Ancient Egypt Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Lectures given at a symposium held in 1987, sponsored by Fordham University.
Author | : Abby Day |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317067800 |
Download Religion and the Individual Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
What does religion mean to the individual? How are people religious and what do their beliefs, practices and identities mean to them? The individual's place within studies of religion has tended to be overlooked recently in favour of macro analyses. Religion and the Individual draws together authors from around the world to explore belief, practice and identity. Using original case studies and other work firmly placed in the empirical, contributors discuss what religious belief means to the individual. They examine how people embody what religion means to them through practice, considering the different meanings that people attach to religion and the social expressions of their personal understandings and the ways in which religion shapes how people see themselves in relation to others. This work is cross-cultural, with contributions from Asia, Europe and North America.
Author | : Mu-chou Poo |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791436295 |
Download In Search of Personal Welfare Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years, this book presents the religious mentality of the period through personal and daily experiences.
Author | : Octavius Winslow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : |
Download Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Kenaz Filan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2013-02-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1620551500 |
Download Talking to the Spirits Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A guide to direct communication with the spirits and the Gods • Offers practices for seekers and groups to learn to hear and respond to the spirits and the Gods as well as what to do (and not do) if you receive a message • Explains how to authenticate spiritual messages with divination • Discusses how to avoid theological conflicts when someone’s personal gnosis differs from that of their Pagan group For our ancestors the whole world was alive with spirits. The Gods bubbled forth from rivers and springs and whispered in the breezes that rustled through cities and farms. The ground underfoot, the stones, the fire that cooked the food and drove off the darkness, these all had spirits--not just spirits in some other dimension, but spirits in them who could be spoken to and allied with. In today’s world we are led to believe that the spirits long ago went silent and that spiritual wisdom can only be gained through established religious doctrine. Providing a guide for opening two-way conversation with the spirits of daily life as well as direct communication with the Gods, Kenaz Filan and Raven Kaldera explore how to enrich your spiritual path with personal gnosis--asking your Guides for assistance or teachings and receiving a response. They explain how to develop your sensitivity to the voices of the Divine, discern genuine spiritual messages from the projection of internal psychodrama, and what to do (and not do) with the messages you receive. Confirming their own personal gnosis with Northern Tradition Pagan beliefs and Greco-Roman, Celtic, Egyptian, and indigenous hunter-gatherer lore, the authors discuss how to avoid theological conflicts when someone’s personal gnosis differs from that of their Pagan group as well as how to authenticate messages with individual and group divination. Offering practices and principles for seekers and groups, they reveal that the spirits never went silent, we simply forgot how to hear them.
Author | : C.W. Buijs |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2016-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 900432657X |
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In Personal Religion and Magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi, Kees Buijs describes the traditional culture of the Toraja’s, which is rapidly vanishing. The focus is on personal religion as it has its centre in the kitchen of each house. In the kitchen and also by the use of magical words and stones the gods are sought for their powers of blessing. This book adds important information to Buijs’ earlier Powers of Blessing from the Wilderness and from Heaven (Brill, 2006).