Religious Studies
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-17 | Author:Wayne Grudem

In other cases the Holy Spirit gave guidance to establish people in various ministries or church offices. So the Holy Spirit said to some in the church at Antioch, “Set ...
( Category: Theology August 19,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-26 | Author:Kenneth Poppe [Poppe, Kenneth]

To close this chapter, the short lists of vestigial structures and behaviors in no way proves that natural processes did all the work to separate us from a chimp or ...
( Category: Science & Religion August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Mona Eltahawy [Eltahawy, Mona]

Not only does the medicalization of FGM give legitimacy to a harmful practice but it has also added racism to the mix. The Orchid Project quotes a 2011 BBC report ...
( Category: Gender & Sexuality August 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Baggini, Julian [Baggini, Julian]

One reason why the persistence of religion seems baffling to many is that they see it primarily as the belief that there is a god; there is a heaven; we ...
( Category: Modern August 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley [Shelley, Percy Bysshe]

What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered, and our infancy ...
( Category: Comparative Religion July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-22 | Author:Brian Pavlac [Pavlac, Brian]

The Dccrcc of 1682 These efforts culminated in a royal decree in July 1682 that reformed the laws of France concerning witch hunting. It declared that "those who call themselves ...
( Category: Witchcraft July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Nicholas F. Gier [Gier, Nicholas F.]

The Rise of Tibetan Tantric Rituals in the Ninth Century CE The 212 years between the death of Lang Darma and the coming of Atiśa in 1042 have been traditionally ...
( Category: Religious Intolerance & Persecution July 31,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-03 | Author:Mark S. Smith [Smith, Mark S.]

PLACE: VERTICAL SPACE Heaven PLACE: HORIZONTAL SPACE SUPERNATURAL Just as the center bears a subdivision, the periphery likewise shows a distinction between what humans experience in the periphery and what ...
( Category: Judaism July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-07 | Author:D. Cameron Webb [Webb, D. Cameron]

Conclusion If you've made it this far, I have to assume you’re either my wife or you've seen at least some merit in what I've been saying. You're certainly not ...
( Category: Science & Religion July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Mark Juergensmeyer [Juergensmeyer, Mark]

A process like the removal of the primal father by the band of brothers must have left ineradicable traces in the history of mankind and must have expressed itself the ...
( Category: Psychology July 31,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Rupa Viswanath [Viswanath, Rupa]

Government and Landholders as “Co-owners of Property” The debate over house sites would eventually be taken up in the lofty chambers of Madras’s Legislative Council. The structure of the government, ...
( Category: Church & State July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-29 | Author:James A. Haugt [Haugt, James A.]

Writers "My parents never bound us to any church."-Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), American novelist (Noyes) "We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. ...
( Category: General July 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Phil Zuckerman [Zuckerman, Phil]

Secure Societies This theory comes from the work of Pippa Norris and Ronald Ingle-hart.24 Their explanation for why some societies are much less religious than others essentially goes like this ...
( Category: Church & State July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Yuval Elizur [Elizur, Yuval]

8 The Soldiers of Israel or of God? SIX THOUSAND MEN AND WOMEN, MOST OF THEM BELOW the age of thirty, 1 percent of the total Jewish population of Israel ...
( Category: Judaism July 31,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:Robin Le Poidevin [Le Poidevin, Robin]

Something can be descriptively good, i.e. in our best interests, whether or not God wills it, and so in this sense is good independently of God's will. Of course, if ...
( Category: General July 31,2015 )