248円 Part I: Of Man In Part I, Hobbes attempts an analysis of society from first principles, beginning with Man and the Senses. He develops this in a sequence of definitions (for example: Imagination is "nothing but decaying sense" and is the same as Memory). He points out the Necessity of Definitions...

308円 Organised religions and rituals are mushrooming and so are adherents and devotees. The message in most religions is “love” and yet there is great violence created in by the supremacy between religions themselves. Each attempting to compete for its proliferation at the expense of the virtues of lo...

1,600円 Jesus' Wedding assembles an easily understood model that unifies the mystical experience, which gives birth to all mythologies and spiritual rituals. Elements from every belief system come together to prove the existence of a universal divine nature. Following this model, it is possible to draw t...

12,767円 Sacred Matters explores the multi-disciplinary literature about the role of religion in family life and provides new research and a new theory about ways various aspects of the sacred are helpful and harmful. The authors hope that their new conceptual framework will stimulate new research and enc...

10,612円 What can be gained from a dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion? Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of "science." Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to religion. Yet, from the beg...

4,791円 Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "the country's best social scientists" by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "tremendously valuable." The New York Times calls him "temperate, balanced, compassionate," adding, "one can't but admire Mr. Wuthnow's views." A leading authority ...

850円 This book provides a summary of the philosophy and practice of Belief Science, the religion of the future. The Church of Belief Science is established on postmodern philosophy--where faith is housed in relationship systems. Readers will learn postmodern tenets as applied to religion. Church Canon...

2,585円 The American comedienne Lily Tomlin once observed with surprise that we call it 'praying' when we talk to God and 'schizophrenia' when God talks back to us. In this book people speak about inner experiences in which they perceived themselves and the world so differently that they thought they wer...

0円 This is a book about religion from a secular angle, but it isn't uncompromisingly hostile to it. Many critics of religion put the emphasis on belief and seek to show that these beliefs are incompatible with science. Richard Dawkins speaks of the "God hypothesis", and says that it is highly improb...

2,334円 The subject of Professor Meyer's superb study concerns the dissolution of the Protestant ethic, its relationship to a general failure of nerve within the American community, and the consequent rise of a pseudo-theology in the guise of a pseudo-psychology, as reflected through the work of certain ...

1,709円 In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that the danger is in religion itself. God, Hitchens writes, is no...

6,060円 This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selectio...