Religious Studies
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Christena Cleveland ["Cleveland, Christena"]

What Texas Football Can Tell Us About Conflict I recently watched a television show called Friday Night Lights on Netflix. It’s a show about the Dillon Panthers, a larger-than-life high ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions May 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:Ellen Bradshaw Aitken,Arvind Sharma

The Public Intellectual: Whither and Why Smith’s Qur’an essay, like the historical episodes examined here, addresses relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, but it is obvious that this is merely a ...
( Category: Comparative Religion May 17,2019 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Pratt, Parley P. [Pratt, Parley P.]

Chapter 10 Keys of Initiation in Practical Theology. Is't possible! A sinful man like me, A candidate for heaven's mystery! May I approach the gate and enter in, Be wash'd ...
( Category: Mormonism May 12,2019 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Orson Pratt

Footnotes 1. Printed in Liverpool, England, October 15, 1850. CHAPTER VI. More Revelation Is Indispensably Necessary 1.-In the former chapter it has been shown, that to expect more revelation is ...
( Category: Theology May 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Handbook of Religion & Mental Health (1998)

Psychosocial Outcomes. While recognizing how the religious connotations of the 12-step program have remained an obstacle for many potential participants and clinicians, Peteet (1993) examined the positive effects of the ...
( Category: Psychiatry May 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-12 | Author:Gael McCool

“Denied the comforting blanket of illusory permanence and absolute truth, we have the opportunity and obligation to do something extraordinary: to see the world as it is, and to understand ...
( Category: Psychology May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Taylor, Mark;

Figure 4.4 James Turrell, Roden Crater, Keyhole with Stairs Figure 4.5 James Turrell, Roden Crater, East Portal High The Sun and Moon Room is connected to the crater’s second opening ...
( Category: Philosophy May 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-27 | Author:Elicka Peterson Sparks

While Christian nationalists very much want to see the Ten Commandments play a larger role in the United States, they—and the majority of Americans (60 percent)—cannot name even five of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 4,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin DeYoung

These two episodes—one in Thessalonica and one in Berea—have a lot in common. In both cities, Paul began his evangelistic work in the synagogue (vv. 1, 10). On both occasions ...
( Category: Bible Study May 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-12 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake

Ritual Sacrifice Until recently, some traditional societies practiced human sacrifice, which is now banned by law everywhere. But it still happens, and is now called ritual murder. In 2006, in ...
( Category: Science & Religion April 30,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Spickard, James V.;

was systematic, methodical, and precise. Catholic homes, businesses, and shrines remained untouched, but the non-Catholic heritage and property were thoroughly destroyed. Foremost among the mosques destroyed . . . was ...
( Category: Sociology April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Morris

. . . DURING ONE PARTICULARLY RAUCOUS Holy Communion on November 15, 1931, the police arrived to rearrest Divine and his followers en masse. According to John Lamb’s recollection of ...
( Category: Sociology April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-14 | Author:Kakde, Ravikumar [Kakde, Ravikumar]

Image 12: Galactic anticenter; Credits - NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt Image 13: Taurus constellation; Credits--(left) AstroBob, Stellarium; (right) IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine This dark black line is nothing but an ...
( Category: Science & Religion April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:McInerney, Joseph J. [McInerney, Joseph J.]

306. See Augustine, S. 123.1 (WSA III/4:244) for a typical formulation concerning Christ’s humility. 307. O’Donovan, Self-Love in St. Augustine, 16. 308. Ibid., 17. 309. Cf. Augustine, Mor. 15.25 for ...
( Category: Ethics April 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Coogan

IN THE CHAPTERS THAT FOLLOW, I will focus on specific examples of modern Christian and Jewish groups who appropriated the status of chosen people for themselves, interpreting the words of ...
( Category: Comparative Religion April 14,2019 )