Religious

This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest...

This unique Handbook provides a sophisticated, scholarly overview of the most advanced thought regarding the idea of life after death. Its comprehensive coverage encompasses historical, religious, philosophical and scientific thinking. Starting with an...

Deals with today's disputed religious questions - whether religious language refers to a transcendent divine reality or only reflects our own ideals, whether religious experience is a proper ground of religious belief, and whether Jesus was God incarnate...

This book is an attempt to make sense of the tension in Nietzsche's work between the unashamedly egocentric and the apparently mystical. While scholars have tended to downplay one or other of these aspects, it is the author's contention that the two are...

Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a...

If you thought nothing new could come of the stalled, stale debates in analytic philosophy over the problem of evil, think again. With characteristic elegance and precision, Marilyn McCord Adams decisively advances the discussion by including overlooked...

This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion. Jibu Mathew George offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the source and dynamics of religious...

This volume argues that theistic philosophy should be seen not as an "armchair" enterprise but rather as a critical endeavor to bring philosophy of religion into close contact with emerging sciences of religion. This text engages with the...

In God and Human Freedom: A Kierkegaardian Perspective Tony Kim discusses Soren Kierkegaard's concept of historical unity between the divine and human without disparaging their absolute distinction. Kim's central analysis between the relation of God and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887754611Author J L LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 95g

A fascinating collection of essays by leading scholars in the field engage with the idea of religious pluralism mooted by John Hick to offer incisive insights on religious pluralism and related themes and to address practical aspects such as...

What could Wittgenstein's work contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life's meaning? This book not only examines Wittgenstein's scattered remarks about value and 'sense of life' but also argues that his philosophy and 'way of seeing' has far...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349224920Author Melville Y. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

This volume contains fresh scholarly contributions to mark the birth centenary of John Hick, the internationally well-known philosopher of religion, whose works continue to have significant global relevance in today’s religiously diverse and...

God is said to be Spirit, but the language of spirit is ignored in contemporary philosophy of religion. As well as exploring the notion of spirit in Hegel, Romanticism and Kierkegaard, participants explore the view that God is a spirit without a body,...

This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion and operates on the assumption that dialogue between the two disciplines can be fruitful. In particular it focuses on how debates in the philosophy of mind regarding the...

Sight is both celebrated and denigrated in religion. In some contexts it is extolled as a source of knowledge and revelation. In others it is demonized as the road to illusion and idolatry. There is no single way that sight functions in religion, nor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349000951Author Huw Parri OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 247g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383225668Author O P JhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Diamond BooksPublisher Diamond BooksWeight(grams) 122g

Few reference works in philosophy have articles on hope. Few also are systematic or large-scale philosophical studies of hope. Hope is admitted to be important in people's lives, but as a topic for study, hope has largely been left to psychologists and...

Mainstream philosophy of religion has persistently failed to engage seriously or critically with animist beliefs and practices. The field that is now called "philosophy of religion" could quite easily be renamed "philosophy of theism" with few lecturers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349225255Author Jaroslav KrejciFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 271g

Long framed in terms of Christian and secularist concerns, the field of philosophy of religion has recently been attempting to expand to include a wider, more diverse variety of religious phenomena. At the same time, a growing body of literature within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618952912Author John BunyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847600967Author Steven DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Humanities - Ebooks.co.ukPublisher Humanities - Ebooks.co.uk

This book treats the presence of God and the presence of persons. The experience of the presence of God is a well-recognized religious experience in theistic traditions. The experience of the presence of persons, this book argues, is an analogous moral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789351655480Author Priyadarshi PrakashFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Diamond Pocket BooksPublisher Diamond BooksWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606933671Author Nwaocha OgechukwuFormat HardbackImprint Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLCPublisher Strategic Book Publishing &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615890378Author Dr William JamesFormat PaperbackImprint Megalodon Entertainment LLC.Publisher Megalodon Entertainment LLC.Weight(grams) 599g

This book addresses the place of religious knowledge in religion, particularly within Christianity. The book begins by examining the difference between the general concepts of knowledge and belief, the relation between faith and knowledge, and reasons...

This book addresses several dimensions of religious revelation. These include its occurrence in various religious traditions, its different forms, its elaborations, how it has been understood by Western theologians, and differing views of revelation’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739456207Author Yaya SillahFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Suba Kunda PublishingPublisher Suba Kunda PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

This book is based on the study of the traditional Chinese philosophy, and explores the relationship between philosophy and people's fate. The book points out that heaven is an eternal topic in Chinese philosophy. The concept of heaven contains religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786772404Author Brooke Noel MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint White Crow ProductionsPublisher White Crow ProductionsWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362091543Author Charles Paschal Telesphore ChiniqPage Count 128Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This book offers a penetrating analysis of issues raised by the perennial question, 'Are We Special?' It brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, from astronomy and palaeontology to philosophy and theology, to explore this question...

This study provides one indication that as aesthetics begins to be reconcieved, which is starting to happen on many fronts, it can play a more significant role both in philosophy and in religious reflection.Book InformationISBN 9781349100231Author David...

This book presents an original discussion and analysis of epistemic peer disagreement. It reviews a wide range of cases from the literature, and extends the definition of epistemic peerhood with respect to the current one, to account for the actual...

The New Atheists' claim that religion always leads to fanaticism is baseless. State-backed religion results in tyranny. Sacred humanists work to implement their highest values that will improve this world; separation of church and state, eliminating...

The phrase Without Authority is Soren Kierkegaard's way of designating his lack of clerical ordination and to raise the complex and central human issue of authority in human culture. Authors of the essays in IKC-18 demonstrate how Kierkegaard's literary...