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.
Tragically, religion has often been associated with violence, repression, war, and vengeance. In this searing work Marc Ellis asks, is there God beyond violence?Ellis's personal quest for religious integrity in the face of evil leads him to probe religious dimensions of both historical violence (in the colonizing of the Americas and the Holocaust) ......
Exploring the moral foundations of the healing relationship, this title looks at the ways a religious perspective shapes the healing relationship and the ethics of that relationship. It argues that religion provides insights into medical practice and morality that cannot be ignored, even in our morally heterogeneous society.
The Theology of Yesterday for Spiritual Help Today
The author turns to the great teachers of the past-Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert-to recover a spirituality that is rich with the doctrines and disciplines of theology.
Ellis and Murphy show how contemporary sciences actually support a religiously based ethic of nonviolence, not by appealing to the Enlightment's mechanismic Creator God or revelation's Father God but by discerning the transcendent ground in the laws of nature, the emergence of intelligent freedom, and the echoes of "knoetic" self-giving in ......
Looking at why the Republican party seems most receptive to evangelicals, this book assesses the religious base of support for both major parties. It includes a survey of census data, religious membership surveys, public opinion polling data, and more.
Divided into three parts, Through the Eyes of Women underscores how gender and public policy issues need to be emphasized, explores several specific issues of women--especially issues of the body--in a way that is counter to the prevailing and the unhelpful dichotomy between mind and body, and concentrates on women as the care providers--the ......
An introduction to the field of ethics that offers a systematic study of the foundations of moral responsibility. It guides the reader on an examination of a range of ethical positions, including relativism, emotivism, egoism, utilitarianism, Kantian formalism, and natural law.
