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Author | : Roger Housden |
Publisher | : Sounds True |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1622031652 |
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A Compelling Exploration of the Emerging Secular Spirituality What is faith? It is not something we must receive from a religion, nor is it a quality we must abandon in order to be rational. "Faith is not the same as belief," writes bestselling author Roger Housden. "A nonreligious faith allows us to live with uncertainty, change, and mortality—to embrace life in all its sublime beauty." For the many who self-identify as "spiritual but not religious," Housden’s book Keeping the Faith Without a Religion offers us a way to embrace the extraordinary mystery of our lives without resorting to blind dogmatism or nihilistic scientism. He invites us to investigate: Faith and belief—how our hunger for certainty and easy answers impedes the growth of a mature spiritualityGuidance for building a personal faith based on your own inner experienceHow faith in life’s uncertainty can lift us through hard times—even when we know there are no guaranteesLove, joy, and beauty—what these experiences can teach us about the intelligence of the universe Today, many of us seek a new approach to spirituality that honors both the rational and the mystical in equal measure. With Keeping the Faith Without a Religion, Roger Housden offers a guidebook for free-thinking seekers—an inspiring call to step beyond the need for one absolute truth and trust ourselves to the unfolding of our singular, extraordinary life.
Author | : Phil Zuckerman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 019024884X |
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Faith No More seeks to understand how and why people lose their faith, sever their ties with religious organizations, and experience a secularizing transformation in their own personal lives. Based on in-depth interviews with 75 individuals from a variety of backgrounds and religious traditions, this book offers a rich and colorful exploration of the human journey from religiosity to secularity.
Author | : Christopher Hitchens |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-11-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1551991764 |
Download God Is Not Great Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.
Author | : Ronald Dworkin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674728041 |
Download Religion without God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and what is God’s place in it? What is death and what is immortality? Based on the 2011 Einstein Lectures, Religion without God is inspired by remarks Einstein made that if religion consists of awe toward mysteries which “manifest themselves in the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, and which our dull faculties can comprehend only in the most primitive forms,” then, he, Einstein, was a religious person. Dworkin joins Einstein’s sense of cosmic mystery and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of mind, and immanent in the world. He rejects the metaphysics of naturalism—that nothing is real except what can be studied by the natural sciences. Belief in God is one manifestation of this deeper worldview, but not the only one. The conviction that God underwrites value presupposes a prior commitment to the independent reality of that value—a commitment that is available to nonbelievers as well. So theists share a commitment with some atheists that is more fundamental than what divides them. Freedom of religion should flow not from a respect for belief in God but from the right to ethical independence. Dworkin hoped that this short book would contribute to rational conversation and the softening of religious fear and hatred. Religion without God is the work of a humanist who recognized both the possibilities and limitations of humanity.
Author | : Michael P. Jensen |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2013-06-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1621897117 |
Download My God, My God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Once upon a time, it was not so difficult to believe. Believing in God was like breathing. It was a second sense of which people were hardly aware. But in an age when our faith is mainly in science and technology, is it possible to believe anymore? Michael P. Jensen takes a searching look at what makes us believe--or not believe--in God in this contemporary world. He converses with troubled souls, cranks, crackpots, and conspiracy theorists, and even with the devil himself. This entertaining and stimulating journey through the underworld of our beliefs will have you wondering whether things are always what they seem.
Author | : Alister McGrath |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2011-05-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830868739 |
Download The Dawkins Delusion? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath present a reliable assessment of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, famed atheist and scientist, and the many questions this book raises--including, above all, the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning.
Author | : Ray Comfort |
Publisher | : Bridge Logos Foundation |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780882709222 |
Download God Doesn't Believe in Atheists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book proves to atheists that they don't exist, reveals to agnostics their true motives, and strengthens the faith of the believers. This book answers questions such as Who made God? and Where did Cain get his wife? The book uses humor, reason, and logic to send a powerful message. Here are some reactions from atheists who read the book . . .
Author | : Alain De Botton |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0307907104 |
Download Religion for Atheists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world. Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it—because the world’s religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world. For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.
Author | : Nicholas Wade |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-11-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1101155671 |
Download The Faith Instinct Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Noted science writer Nicholas Wade offers for the first time a convincing case based on a broad range of scientific evidence for the evolutionary basis of religion.
Author | : Ghulam Akbar Chatha |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2004-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780595780402 |
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Wisdom is ignorance in an unwise society. Contentment is a state of soul which material possessions or achievements can not provide how great they may be. A loving heart is essential and only eligibility to have faith in the God. Those who do not qualify need not seek it in books or prayers. Wisdom is ability and ignorance inability to acknowledge and accept the truth. Religions consist of allowed or not allowed and not necessarily good or truth while faith in the God naturally recognizes universal good and truth. Who so ever seeks finds the God but religions deny this inborn equal right of humans and each one of them claims to be an exclusive permit holder. Unlike religions faith in the God is neither a heritage nor an inheritance. Free your thoughts and you are, "Out of religion". Meditate on universe and nature and you are, "In spirituality". Mostly people are inclined to believe what they like to believe and are not inclined to believe what they do not like to believe. This is also bigotry.