Surviving Death

In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates ...

Atheism

a guide for the Perplexed

Atheism: A Guide for the Perplexed moves beyond the polemics to present an overview of atheism that is rigorous but still accessible to the educated layperson as well as to the undergraduate student in philosophy and theology. After a preliminary investigation of what atheists mean ...

In the Name of God

the Evolution Origins of Religious Ethics and Violence

Religion is one of the most powerful forces running through human history, and although often presented as a force for good, its impact is frequently violent and divisive. This provocative work brings together cutting-edge research from both evolutionary and cognitive psychology to help readers understand ...

The Routledge encyclopedia of religion, communication, and media

Ed. Daniel A. Stout. "The Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media" explores all forms of religious communication worldwide and historically, with a special emphasis on oral and written forms of communication. This A-Z organized reference work analyzes how and why the world's religions have ...

The Routledge encyclopedia of religious rites, rituals, and festivals

Ed. Frank A. Salamone. This complex topic is explored through articles covering general concepts and ideas, major forms of ritual and festival, life cycle rites and specific rites and festivals such as Easter, Christmas, Passover, Ramadan and many more.

A new science

the discovery of religion in the Age of Reason

We see the word 'religion' everywhere, yet do we understand what it means, and is there a consistent worldwide understanding? Who discovered religion and in what context? In "A New Science", Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion ...

La santa ignorancia

el tiempo de la religión sin cultura

Oliver Roy propone que el mito de la «santa ignorancia» animaría a los diferentes fundamentalismos modernos y es una expresión de la mundialización y la crisis de las culturas. ¿Por qué miles de musulmanes se están convirtiendo al cristianismo o se hacen testigos de Jehová ...

The errors of atheism

This work fills the gap for a much needed analytical philosophical work articulating and defending agnosticism as a critique of both theism and atheism. "The Errors of Atheism" is a response to the glaring gap that exists in the analytical philosophical literature on the problem ...

Asuntos religiosos

una propuesta de política pública

Asuntos Religiosos, pretende proporcionar las claves para comprender cómo ha evolucionado la cuestión laica en la sociedad contemporánea y cómo encaja el actual debate en torno a la laicidad en la filosofía política del momento.

Huesos sagrados

un recorrido por las reliquias de las religiones del mundo

En Huesos sagrados Peter Manseau emprende un singular viaje que lo llevará de Padua a Goa, de Los Ángeles a Jerusalén, de París a Cachemira, de Sri Lanka a Siria, para comprender en todo su alcance el culto a las reliquias de las principales religiones ...

¿Dios?

El título de este libro invita a preguntar, preguntarse. Con las minúsculas se quiere expresar que #dios# es un término común a todos los cientos o miles de dioses que han ido sucediéndose a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, pero eso no ...

Religion and tourism

crossroads, destinations and encounters

This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern world. It considers questions such as: Do travellers leave their religion at home when they are touring -- and what happens if not? What are the relationships between tourism and pilgrimage? What happens ...

A short history of atheism

The last few years have seen a remarkable surge of popular interest in the topic of atheism. Books about atheism by writers like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have figured prominently in bestseller lists and have attracted widespread discussion in the media. The ubiquity of ...

A dictionary of philosophy of religion

This is an indispensable and comprehensive resource for students and scholars of philosophy of religion. "A Dictionary in Philosophy of Religion" is an indispensable source for students and scholars. Covering historical and contemporary figures, arguments, and terms, it offers an overview of the vital themes ...

Barbarism and religion

Volume 5: Religion, the first triumph

This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy in unprecedented depth, Pocock challenges the assumption that Gibbon wrote with the intention of ...

Las cruzadas

peregrinaje armado y guerra santa

¿Se trataba de una motivación meramente religiosa o respondía también al deseo de obtener recompensas materiales? ¿En qué medida tales incursiones convulsionaron la historia europea y enturbiaron la relación entre musulmanes y cristianos, despertando el resquemor de los primeros y espoleando la mala conciencia de ...

Los cátaros

Radicales en sus ideas y dotados de una profunda espiritualidad, los cátaros rechazaban el materialismo, trataban como iguales a las mujeres, aceptaban la diferencia de credo, defendían el amor libre y afirmaban que el infierno no existía. Pero sobre todo, estos rebeldes pusieron en entredicho ...

The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque

Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a 'Christian-Muslim divide'-- and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world ...

El rostre de la Medusa

manual de mitologia griega en els seus textos literaris

Manual de mitología clásica en la literatura.

The spiritual heritage of the human race

an introduction to the world's religions

Drawing on religious and spiritual traditions of the past and the present, Professor Suheil Bushrui, in collaboration with Mehrdad Massoudi, Michael Dravis, James Madaio, and Michael Russo, explores the commonalities of religions while respecting the differences that make each spiritual path distinct. In doing so ...