epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sam Harris

DZOGCHEN: TAKING THE GOAL AS THE PATH Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche lived in a hermitage on the southern slope of Shivapuri Mountain, overlooking the Kathmandu Valley. He spent more than twenty ...

mobi |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Lawrence Wright

THE TIME STORY WAS a turning point in the church’s history. The embarrassment for Scientology celebrities undercut the church’s strategy of making the religion appear to be a spiritual refuge ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-12 | Author:Smith, Mark S. [Smith, Mark S.]

CHAPTER 7 Postscript: Portraits of Yahweh 1. Processes Leading to Divine Portraiture in Israel The development toward monotheism in Israel involved complex processes of convergence and differentiation of deities. The ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Hector Avalos [Avalos, Hector]

Yoder's violence to the plain meaning of the text is as arbitrary as any encountered from fundamentalists. Indeed, how does one come to understand "the point" of a passage except ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Russell, Gerard [Russell, Gerard]

The Samaritans have preserved carefully over the generations their ancient scrolls, which record a Torah that differs somewhat from the Jewish one. Here in 1905 a Samaritan priest displays one ...

epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Sam Harris [Harris, Sam]

Consciousness Like Descartes, most of us begin these inquiries as thinkers, condemned by the terms of our subjectivity to maneuver in a world that appears to be other than what ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Sloan Wilson [Wilson, David Sloan]

Without attempting to prejudge the results, I think that the basic functionality of religion will be amply confirmed. Durkheim was right. Something as elaborate—as time-, energy-, and thought-consuming—as religion would ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joyce, Kathryn [Joyce, Kathryn]

IN THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS connecting with a searcher like the one Kelly used has become increasingly difficult. Although the information searchers bring back is often innocuous, a window into ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Graziano, Michael S. A. [Graziano, Michael S. A.]

Consciousness is a process, not a thing Where does this discussion leave us? We have gained a great deal of ground on consciousness. We have hemmed it into certain brain ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-29 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

Chapter Eleven "The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin": Religion's Corrupt Beginnings Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. —SIGMUND ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Victor J. Stenger

The point Dawkins was making is that if Dembski,33 Behe,34 and their supporters in the intelligent design movement are correct that complexity can only arise from higher complexity, then God ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Jack David Eller

As Menon describes it, Hindutva essentially represents a massive "reconversion" (or, in some instances, a first conversion) to Hindu identity, especially overcoming or rejecting Christian conversion and reclaiming people who ...

mobi |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

So a star was born. . . For these and for my other criticisms I was invited by the Vatican into a closed room containing a Bible, a tape recorder, ...