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Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of green religions in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of group...
MPN: a54d6b452e65c99c6d151eac1cf57470
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The Second: A Novel About Spirituality, Religion, and Politics
Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American Christian fundamentalism: "The Second" is a work of nonreligious religious fiction that engages all the markers of religion, with "belief" as the core of a modern-day American Gothic in which a trinity of characters clash over the complex ideologies that shape politics, religion, and spirituality. The vibrant, French Canadian Chantelle-a woman who promotes a spirituality based on principles and not traditional dogma-must balance he...
MPN: 5fe21486098d4fd1485ad2a1e20b198b
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Collective Brightness: Lgbtiq Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality
Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first anthology of its kind, with poets representing several countries (the United States, Singapore, Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, Japan and elsewhere) , COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS gathers over 100 established and emerging contemporary LGBTIQ poets writing from and about various faiths, religions and spiritual traditions. Says Rigoberto Gonzalez of National Book Critics Circle, "COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS sheds a shining light on a journey that no longer takes place...
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The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom Up
The New Sciences of Religion" is a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena. William Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the "outside in" and the "bottom up" without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions. Using insights from economics, evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, and medicine, Grassie develops a complex and multifaceted understanding of religion as potentially functional and dysfu...
MPN: af5fbbcdc0af6387a00c9a3a8236a638
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In the Beginning Was the Spirit: Science, Religion, and Indigenous Spirituality
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE SPIRIT
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The Highest Dharma: Understanding Religion and Spirituality
Dharma is a Sanskrit word that usually translates to religion, virtue, righteousness, or duty. It is a difficult word to translate because it actually means the essence of something, that which is eternally existing with an object, or that which sustains...
MPN: 2f18c1e192465e338d6e2049f5166401
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Spiritual DNA: The Most Powerful Knowledge about the Potential of the Human Soul and Spirituality Ever Described by Science, Religion
Since ancient times and for thousands of years, from Mesopotamia, Babylon, Egypt and China to Europe, much was the knowledge found and developed to promote a better lifestyle and health. But, for some reason, we have abandoned this path and entered anothe...
MPN: c490a9a1f9cba0874a0336a406a888ef
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Conscience - A Conversation on Spirituality, Religion and Modern Social-Complexity
From our earliest childhood memories of inquisitiveness, we have always been on a constant quest to know, to experience and understand the things around us. This was yours and mine most entertaining feature; asking questions and so on. Before the superimp...
MPN: 369288979ecda4ceb1c4369db15c69e3
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Science, Religion & Spirituality
SCIENCE, RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY" arrives at a time when youth is returning to a kind of religion where spirituality is on the rise. There is no longer value in articles with titles such as "Is God Dead?" Today we are using science to complement our spir...
MPN: 75d56971366fe66831a3ac3dd58c8c70
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What Does Islam Mean in Today's World?: Religion, Politics, Spirituality
Paperback, Natl Book Network, 2012, ISBN13 9781936597147, ISBN10 1936597144
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Sacred Matters: Religion and Spirituality in Families
This book reviews and evaluates the multi-disciplinary literature about the relationship between religion and family and proposes a new theory about the aspects of the sacred that are helpful and harmful in families. Related studies and issues from psycho...
MPN: 7bd4b199984c09ae82369a820c97204c
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Shi'i Islam in Iranian Cinema: Religion and Spirituality in Film
In recent years there has been a remarkable surge in Iranian films expressing contentious issues which would otherwise be very difficult to discuss publicly inside the Islamic Republic of Iran - such as the role of clergy in Iranian society. Nacim Pak-Sh...
MPN: 7454d61bbaf75b1c39e4c270e116cde1