Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating
Food Faiths explores how individuals use scientific concepts about food and diet as the basis for a spiritual practice. The book examines how science filters through popular culture to affect the spiritual inclinations of individuals and investigates the influence of science, biomedicine, and nutrition on contemporary spirituality.
Flora & Fauna of the Bible is an engaging and informative study of all the most important plants and animals mentioned in the Bible, relating the references both to Bible times and to wildlife in the Holy Land now and, where appropriate, explaining the message or symbolism behind the texts.
Redefining Religion in British America, 1725 - 1775
The First Great Awakening is a major revisionist analysis of a significant turning point in early American history. It offers a new definition for what constitutes a religious awakening and incorporates facets of colonial society previously downplayed as key elements of the First Great Awakening.
Redefining Religion in British America, 1725 - 1775
The First Great Awakening is a major revisionist analysis of a significant turning point in early American history. It offers a new definition for what constitutes a religious awakening and incorporates facets of colonial society previously downplayed as key elements of the First Great Awakening.
Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and the values to confront it. ......
Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and the values to confront it. ......
Film as Religion argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and values to confront it.
Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion's continuing manifestations in a secularizing age. The contributors are students of philosophy, political theory, and theology; examine religious and philosophical ideas in commercially and ......
