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The Natural History of Religion by David Hume
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:David Hume

SECTION VI. Origin of Theism from Polytheism. The doctrine of one supreme deity, the author of nature, is very ancient, has spread itself over great and populous nations, and among ...
( Category: History October 27,2014 )
Science and Religion - A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon
mobi |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Thomas Dixon

13. Cartoons from Vanity Fair depicting Professor Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, whose encounter in Oxford in 1860 became legendary that they had won the day. But by the ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State October 27,2014 )
The Faith Instinct by Wade Nicholas
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Wade, Nicholas

The Rise of Christianity Judaism, both before and for some time after the Babylonian exile, was not just a religion but a system of belief constructed around a specific political ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Terry Eagleton

CHAPTER 5 THE DEATH OF GOD FOR SOME ENLIGHTENMENT savants, religion is an error, if an occasionally fruitful one; for Romanticism, there is some profound truth to be extracted from ...
( Category: General October 14,2014 )
The Wife of Jesus by Anthony Le Donne
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Anthony Le Donne

JESUS, SON OF JESUS In the centuries after Judaism and Christianity parted ways, the Jewish rabbis evolved in a few different directions. Amid this diversity of Jewish thought, we have ...
( Category: General October 13,2014 )
Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-07 | Author:Susan Jacoby

If many agnostics attempted to conceal the extent of their participation in the women’s movement, they were entirely open about their role in the battle against late-nineteenth-century censorship. There was ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State September 29,2014 )
Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World by Stephens Mitchell
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Stephens, Mitchell [Stephens, Mitchell]

11 TO WİPE AWAY THE ENTİRE HORİZON CREATİNG THE TWENTİETH CENTURY Speaking the wisdom once they could not think, Looking emotions once they feared to feel, And changed to all ...
( Category: General September 7,2014 )
The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Marshall Peter
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-21 | Author:Marshall, Peter [Marshall, Peter]

Paths to resistance If grudging official acceptance of religious minorities was a messy, pragmatic, and unexpected consequence of religious conflict, the Reformation also challenged the established status of political authority ...
( Category: Christianity August 21,2014 )
No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Aslan Reza
mobi |eng | 2008-12-02 | Author:Aslan, Reza [Aslan, Reza]

7. In the Footsteps of Martyrs FROM SHI‘ISM TO KHOMEINISM EARLY IN THE morning on the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram, in the sixty-first year of the ...
( Category: General August 19,2014 )
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
mobi |eng | 2009-09-23 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch

STRASSBURG, ENGLAND AND GENEVA (1540–60) One of the most apparently promising solutions to the relationship of Church and temporal power in the first three decades of the Reformation was developed ...
( Category: Christianity August 19,2014 )
Jews And Their Lies by Martin Luther
epub |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Martin Luther [Martin Luther]

I must break off here and leave the last part of Haggai to others, the section in which he prophesies that the Lord, as he says, "will give peace in ...
( Category: General August 19,2014 )
Big Gods by Norenzayan Ara
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Norenzayan, Ara [Norenzayan, Ara]

We’re among Friends and Family (and Sometimes a Few Strangers) Why are interventionist and moralizing Big Gods rare in the supernatural worlds of the Hadza, the San, and most other ...
( Category: General July 31,2014 )
Jerusalem by Karen Armstrong
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

The Dome of the Rock, built by Caliph Abd al-Malik and completed in 691. By restoring the Temple Mount and erecting the first major Islamic building there, Muslims expressed their ...
( Category: General July 28,2014 )
Battle for God by Armstrong Karen
epub |eng | 2000-06-16 | Author:Armstrong, Karen [Armstrong, Karen]

PROTESTANT FUNDAMENTALISTS in the United States would eventually launch a counteroffensive against the modernity that had defeated them, but during the period currently under discussion, they concentrated, like Haredi Jews, ...
( Category: General July 28,2014 )
Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) by Darrell L. Bock
epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Darrell L. Bock [Bock, Darrell L.]

The Coming of the Eschatological Kingdom How will the eschatological kingdom come? Some texts simply state that the Lord will establish, create, or raise it up in the last days ...
( Category: New Testament July 26,2014 )

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