Examines how five religious traditions - Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam - understand miracles, considering how they express popular enthusiasm for wondrous tales, how they provoke official regulation because of their potential to disrupt authority, and how they are denied by critics within each tradition.
A well-researched biography of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, this book corrects many misconceptions about his life, and answers Western criticism. The biography discusses in detail the high moral character of the prophet, his love for orphans, the poor and downtrodden, his persecution by the Meccans, his flight to Madina.
This book embarks on scholarly investigations of mystical phenomena, including shamanism, near-death experiences, and the paranormal. Contributors address queries such as why religious experiences are ineffable, what the explanatory mechanisms of altered states of consciousness are, and how literature and art express the mystical.
Examines the pervasive influence of organized religion on three vital areas of human behavior - ethics, government, and economics. This book argues that the belief systems of major religions have become a detriment to clear thinking, rational conduct, and wise public policy.
Two partial apprehensions of nature vied for dominance in the past century: religious (void of any influence from science) and scientific (unable to admit any reality, beyond the empirical). Both views have led to the exploitation of nature -- and the scientific may prove even more devastating. The fault, Gilkey argues, lies not in the scientific ......
The doggedness and tenacity of America's neo-fundamentalists have resulted in wave after wave of attacks on rational inquiry and the scientific method. This collection of papers attests to the deep concern of these humanists for the fate of reason and free inquiry within the human community.
Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate today When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial ......
This is the first attempt to integrate research on the place of religion in adolescent development today and to consider the impact of it on law and social policy making.
