This text brings together scholars to critique aspects of modernism. It addresses such issues as: Cartesianism; defence of realism; American political tradition; individual rights versus the common good; pluralism, liberalism and secularism; problems of scepticism; and social construct theory.
Challenging practitioners, Fukuyama and Sevig propose that integrating spiritual values in multicultural counselling and exploring spirituality from multicultural perspectives are mutually beneficial processes.'
It is widely recognized by New Testament scholars that many of the sayings and actions attributed to Jesus in the gospels cannot be factually traced to him. To a considerable degree, these stories have been influenced, or even created, by the early church. Despite this gap between the "Jesus of history" and the "Christ of faith," the contemporary ......
Taking a radical departure from the usual comparative study of religion, Pietro Archiati shows that the various religions represent stages in each individuals path of development. In this sense the Great Religions create an absolute unity--not in what they say or teach, but in their contribution to each of us becoming ever more human.
Johann Lorenz Schmidt and Censorship in Eighteenth-century Germany
Under the patronage of two south German nobles, Johann Lorenz Schmidt published an annotated translation of the Bible's opening books in 1735. The story of the controversy the work aroused and of its eventual suppression sheds light on many aspects of the eighteenth century, as well as the nature of censorship in our time.
Religion and the News offers a cultural-hist orical analysis of the rise of religious stories in the medi a, such as the Islamic Revolution in Iran, televangelism, an d the political agenda of the Evangelical New Right. '
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago was for twenty years the most influential US Catholic bishop. This posthumous collection of a number of his major addresses on central moral issues in contemporary American life voices the causes that were closest to his heart: the sanctity and protection of all human life.
Nineteen essays, many from a conference held in Jerusalem in June 1992, look at sacred spaces of the ancient religions Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Indian and East-Asian religions and discuss how these spaces have been conceptualized and experienced. Essay topics include an investigation of th
Bridging the subject fields of psychology and religion, this volume interweaves theories with first-hand accounts, clinical insight, and empirical research to look at such questions as whether religion is a help or a hindrance in times of stress.
