Religion

Aristotle's Children

Medieval Philosophy. It's not a topic that excites many hearts and minds. As a teacher of this subject at university level, the reasons for this are not…

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Body Piercing Saved My Life

Andrew Beaujon's book is not about unusual body piercings but rather about the growth of the Christian Rock movement; the body piercing referred to i…

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Contemplative Science

   Wallace argues that modern science misses what is not materialist and can't be studied objectively.  It misses the entirety of what…

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Deeper Than Darwin

John Haught's Deeper than Darwin is concerned with the issue of whether, if Darwin's theory of evolution is correct, there is anything significant…

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Encountering the Dharma

In this penetrating study of the Soka Gakkai, Seager takes us on a journey, both personal and scholarly, in search of the true meaning of the Soka Gakkai…

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God Is Not Great

In the late 1980s I was in a small city in Europe.  There was a central square with a large church at one end and the municipal building at the othe…

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Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell is intriguing for those interested in the topic even if it gets a little repetitive and has more detail than some will want, at around 350 pages, but it is an extremely useful resource. Presumably some of Ehrman's claims will be controvers

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Hidden Dimensions

This book goes where angels fear to tread and as such will be dismissed out- of-hand by many traditionally orientated scientists but embraced whole heart…

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Hours with the Mystics

With the exception of Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness which is more evolutionary, Vaughan's 1856 work is the most sophisticatedly literary,…

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Pathways to Spirituality

The inside flap tells us that Bill O'Hanlon is a bestselling author and that this is "a groundbreaking book about how a secular spirituality --…

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Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth

As a hospice patient advocate, I am surrounded by death on a daily basis.  The transition from this world into the next has been something I have always…

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Ten Lectures on Psychotherapy and Spirituality

Ten Lectures on Psychotherapy and Spirituality takes us on a journey in the world of contemporary psychoanalysis, in the area of its coping with…

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The Cambridge Companion to Atheism

The Cambridge Companion to Atheism ­-- an anthology edited by Michael Martin -- aims to acquaint its reader with atheism's "history…

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The Dark Night of the Soul

Facing death by cancer and a serious heart condition May experienced a seeming epiphany making him forget much of his former psychological training and o…

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The Improbability of God

A companion volume to an earlier book by the same editors (The Impossibility of God), this book presents a collection of papers from an atheist…

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The Language of God

Francis S Collins, MD, PhD, headed up the Human Genome Project from 1993 until its completion in 2003. This international project officially began in 199…

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The Power of Faith

At a time in the history of the world when a great many--perhaps most--educated people trust that they have overcome their religious impulses, that they…

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The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism

This is a timely book as since 9/11 the phrase 'religious fundamentalism' has entered popular culture by being used, whether rightly or wrongly, to denot…

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The Puppet and the Dwarf

According to Slavoj Zizek, what constitutes, as per the sub-title of this book, the "perverse core" of the Christian religion?  In a properly L…

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