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subject:"Social Science / Sociology of Religion" from books.google.com
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A nuanced exploration of the role of religion in our lives, drawing on insights of the past to build a faith for our dangerously polarized age—from the New York Times bestselling author of The History of God Moving ...
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In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most ...
subject:"Social Science / Sociology of Religion" from books.google.com
'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
subject:"Social Science / Sociology of Religion" from books.google.com
The book provides a general introduction to the varieties of New Age and Neopagan religions in the United States today as well as an account of their nineteenth-century roots and emergence from the 1960s counterculture.
subject:"Social Science / Sociology of Religion" from books.google.com
"Focusing on representations of the ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to the present, Justin Thomas McDaniel builds a case for interpreting modern Thai Buddhist practice through the movements of these transformative figures .
subject:"Social Science / Sociology of Religion" from books.google.com
Grounded in solid research and written in apopular style, this book is both a helpful apologetic toolin talking with unbelievers and a source of evidence forwhy Christianity deserves credit for many of thehumane, social, scientific, and ...
subject:"Social Science / Sociology of Religion" from books.google.com
Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the ...
subject:"Social Science / Sociology of Religion" from books.google.com
The noted mythologist discusses the relationship of ancient myths to modern life, including discussions of recent heros, tales of love and marriage, the power of myth, and mythic themes
subject:"Social Science / Sociology of Religion" from books.google.com
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited ...
subject:"Social Science / Sociology of Religion" from books.google.com
The Western Construction of Religion not only provides a critical assessment of the whole history of "religionas it is understood in the West but offers better ways of constructing the study of this central part of human experience.