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Religion And World Civilizations
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Author : Andrew P. Holt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Religion And World Civilizations written by Andrew P. Holt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Religion and civilization categories.
"This work provides a three volume overview of the ways in which religious faith has shaped societies from the ancient world until the present. Each volume focuses on a different era of world history, ranging through the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, and includes essays that focus on religious themes from different geographical regions"--
Religion And World Civilizations
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Author : Andrew Holt
language : en
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Religion And World Civilizations written by Andrew Holt and has been published by ABC-CLIO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with Political Science categories.
An indispensable resource for readers investigating how religion has influenced societies and cultures, this three-volume encyclopedia assesses and synthesizes the many ways in which religious faith has shaped societies from the ancient world to today. Each volume of the set focuses on a different era of world history, ranging through the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds. Every volume is filled with essays that focus on religious themes from different geographical regions. For example, volume one includes essays considering religion in ancient Rome, while volume three features essays focused on religion in modern Africa. This accessible layout makes it easy for readers to learn more about the ways that religion and society have intersected over the centuries, as well as specific religious trends, events, and milestones in a particular era and place in world history. Taken as a a whole, this ambitious and wide-ranging work gathers more than 500 essays from more than 150 scholars who share their expertise and knowledge about religious faiths, tenets, people, places, and events that have influenced the development of civilization over the course of recorded human history.
Religion In The Emergence Of Civilization
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Author : Ian Hodder
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-30
Religion In The Emergence Of Civilization written by Ian Hodder and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-30 with Social Science categories.
This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume examines Çatalhöyük as a case study. A nine-thousand-year old town in central Turkey, Çatalhöyük was first excavated in the 1960s and has since become integral to understanding the symbolic and ritual worlds of the early farmers and village-dwellers in the Middle East. It is thus an ideal location for exploring theories about the role of religion in early settled life. This book provides a unique overview of current debates concerning religion and its historical variations. Through exploration of themes including the integration of the spiritual and the material, the role of belief in religion, the cognitive bases for religion, and religion's social roles, this book situates the results from Çatalhöyük within a broader understanding of the Neolithic in the Middle East.
The Role Of Religion In Ancient Civilizations
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Author : Kim Woodring
language : en
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2020-07-22
The Role Of Religion In Ancient Civilizations written by Kim Woodring and has been published by Cognella Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-22 with categories.
The Role of Religion in Ancient Civilizations: Select Readings addresses the importance of religion in ancient civilizations and encourages readers to evaluate these civilizations both historically and critically. The selected readings help readers understand civilizations as whole systems with not only social and political characteristics, but also religious ones. Topics include the establishment of patriarchal civilizations, Mesopotamian and Egyptian religion, and the early civilizations of Northwest India. Students also learn about the religions of ancient China and Japan, traditional African religions and belief systems, religion and burial in Roman Britain, and the great temples of Meso-American religions. The final selections are devoted to early Christianity, the Byzantine Empire, and Islam. The second edition features updated material and new articles that address Egyptian religion, early northwest civilizations, goddesses and demonesses in South Asian religion, Christianity during the Roman Empire, and the rise and expansion of Islam. Taken as a whole, these carefully curated articles demonstrate both the uniqueness of each religion and the traditions and practices that, over time, became interconnected and fused to form new religions. The Role of Religion in Ancient Civilizations is well suited to survey courses in world and ancient religions, as well as classes on religious history and the history of the ancient world.
The Crucible Of Religion
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Author : Wojciech Maria Zalewski
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2012-02-13
The Crucible Of Religion written by Wojciech Maria Zalewski and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-13 with Religion categories.
Religion is commonly viewed through the lens of the world's religious traditions, stressing the differences, and often the conflicts, among them. The author of this book instead presents religion as a common and universal human phenomenon, based deeply in a human nature shared by all. In this view, the underlining and unifying principle of religion is a particular affirmative attitude toward life, which he presents as the Ultimate Value, and as such the key cultural constituent and defining factor of all religion. This Ultimate Value finds its expressions in various civilizations, and results in a variety of forms; these are what we know as the world's religious traditions. By analyzing the roles of both culture and civilization in their attitudes toward life, the author places religion beyond religious traditions, and shows how the latter, regardless of whether they are theistic or atheistic, draw their principles from the former, mainly by promoting the Golden Rule in its applications.
The Idea Of God
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Author : Kenneth A. Dobbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-15
The Idea Of God written by Kenneth A. Dobbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Religion categories.
What holds society together? How does civilization survive from collapsing in on itself? In this work, Kenneth A. Dobbs describes how religion is the cause of civilization's rise and prosperity. Beginning with psychological theories on human nature, Dobbs establishes that humanity needs the religious values of truth, beauty, and goodness to flourish. He then proves this psychological theory by analyzing religion's role in the historical developments of civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Jerusalem, Greece, Rome, and Christendom. He also responds to rebuttals and objections against the thesis that religion is still necessary for modern civilization. The Idea of God explores the historical, political, and philosophical implications of both the implementation and rejection of religion within human civilization. Dobbs articulates religion's necessary role in civilization, while also provocatively predicting Western civilization's fate for rejecting religion: societal collapse. The book follows a long intellectual tradition of historians and philosophers who have argued a similar thesis including Polybius, St. Augustine, Arnold Toynbee, Russel Kirk, Richard M. Weaver, and Christopher Dawson. Dobbs reintroduces these classical ideas to the modern world.
Progress And Religion
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Author : Christopher Dawson
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2012-08-09
Progress And Religion written by Christopher Dawson and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-09 with History categories.
Progress and Religion was perhaps the most influential of all Christopher Dawson's books, establishing him as an interpreter of history and a historian of ideas.
Religion Its Functions In Human Life
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Author : Knight Dunlap
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Religion Its Functions In Human Life written by Knight Dunlap and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Psychology, Religious categories.
It is the purpose of this book to present religion as a normal product of man's conscious processes: his desires, his fears, and especially his planning for future contingencies. In order to understand the role a religion may or may not play in the civilization of the future, it is necessary to understand the roles that the religions of the past, from which religions of the present day have developed, have played in the cultures of which they were integral parts. Only through the study of these roles is it possible to discover what religion really is. This historical or genetic method is only one part of the full comparative method that is essential for a complete study of religion. The other part of the comparative method is the comparison of religions that exist contemporaneously and which have little, if any, genetic relation to one another. The religions of civilized peoples can be understood by tracing them back to their foundations in religions of ancient cultures from which our civilization developed. This genetic method at least gives a primary understanding of the nature and functions of religion, which suffices for the purpose of this volume; the religions of civilized peoples having borrowed little from either the religions of present-day savages or those of semicivilized peoples, the full comparative method is not essential for our purposes. That the psychological problems of religion are primarily problems for group psychology and that the problems of personal religion are secondary in importance should be evident from the principle that is now generally accepted by scholars in the field of the history of religion. This principle, which is explained and illustrated in the text, is that faith develops from ritual, rather than ritual from faith.
Axial Civilizations And World History
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Author : Johann P. Arnason
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004-09-01
Axial Civilizations And World History written by Johann P. Arnason and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-01 with Religion categories.
A collection of essays by social theorists, historical sociologists and area specialists in classical, biblical and Asian studies. The contributions deal with cultural transformations in major civilizational centres during the “Axial Age”, the middle centuries of the last millennium BCE, and their long-term consequences.
Philosophy Religion And The Coming World Civilization
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Author : L. S. Rouner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966-07-31
Philosophy Religion And The Coming World Civilization written by L. S. Rouner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-07-31 with categories.