Sociology
epub |por | 2011-06-10 | Author:James C. Hunter [Hunter, James C.]

Eu sempre acreditei, ao menos esse tem sido meu paradigma, que, quando Jesus disse para "amar seu próximo", ele estava pedindo para que tivéssemos afeto por ele. — Este é ...
( Category: Sociology September 29,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Sam Harris

Chapter 5 THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS No one has ever mistaken me for an optimist. And yet when I consider one of the more pristine sources of pessimism—the moral development ...
( Category: Ethics September 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Sam Harris [Harris, Sam]

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 ...
( Category: Sociology September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Prothero, Stephen

Chapter Six Yoruba Religion The Way of Connection In my introduction to religion courses I ask my students to invent their own religions. They form groups and dream up new ...
( Category: Sociology September 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Aslan, Reza [Aslan, Reza]

Part Three THE END OF THE WAR AS WE KNOW IT CHAPTER SIX Generation E There is no more deliriously frenetic airport in all of Europe than Heathrow. Its five ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State August 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-24 | Author:Murray J. Leaf

Bhakti The most important general scheme of ideas that explains the relationship between a guru and a disciple is bhakti. Bhakti means personal devotion, finding one’s personal relation to god ...
( Category: Cultural June 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Matthew Vines [Vines, Matthew]

Customary and Uncustomary Gender Roles In the ancient world, if a man took the active role in sex, his behavior generally was deemed to be “natural.” But if he took ...
( Category: Social Issues June 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

A spiritual vacuum had also opened up in India, and new sages worked energetically, even desperately, to find a fresh solution. By the late fifth century, the doctrine of karma, ...
( Category: Sociology May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-12 | Author:Kristina Jones & Celeste Jones & Juliana Buhring [Jones, Kristina & Jones, Celeste & Buhring, Juliana]

I nodded. I knew the Bible backwards and knew that quote. "And that is Mo, a lying prophet, a false prophet," I said. The veil that had been slipping for ...
( Category: Cults May 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-04-15 | Author:Kristina Jones & Celeste Jones & Juliana Buhring [Jones, Kristina & Jones, Celeste & Buhring, Juliana]

I nodded. I knew the Bible backwards and knew that quote. "And that is Mo, a lying prophet, a false prophet," I said. The veil that had been slipping for ...
( Category: Cults March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Lawrence Wright [Wright, Lawrence]

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 ...
( Category: Christianity March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER]

T HE “ARGUMENT FROM AUTHORITY” is the weakest of all arguments. It is weak when it is asserted at second or third hand (“the Good Book says”), and it is ...
( Category: Sociology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2006-04-15 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

You will survive your own death. If you die a martyr, you will go to an especially wonderful part of paradise where you will enjoy seventy-two virgins (spare a thought ...
( Category: Sociology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-07 | Author:Mark LeVine

Building a Temple of Rock Moe Hamzeh has always loved two things, rock music and rocks. Before he became a professional musician, he received his BA and then his master’s ...
( Category: Heavy Metal March 26,2014 )