Sentences with phrase «book about religion»

So I don't think of Traveling Mercies as a book about religion at all, but rather as a handbook, or maybe a sort of owner's manual, for people who are trying to live faithfully: which is to say, learning to cooperate with grace — even (or especially) when real life rears its very confusing head.

The title, as far as I could tell, is a biblical reference that connects to a scene where we briefly see a book about religion called «A is for Abraham.»

Here is a review in a national publication of a book about religion in American public life.

I'm also an atheist, and I read many books about religion.

For one thing, that most theologians and most publishers had severely underestimated the number of people who were willing to spend good money on serious books about religion.

From books about food (Julie & Julia, of course, which according to Amazon is now subtitled My Year of Cooking Dangerously) to books about religion (A.J. Jacobs» The Year of Living Biblically) to books with a social or political agenda (Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, by Judith Levine), my - year - of memoirs are everywhere these days.

Sacred Texts contains the Web's largest collection of free books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric in general.

Not exact matches

It will no longer allow apps to see personal information about users, like religion, political views, relationship status, education, work history, fitness activity and what books, movies and music people have consumed.

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

but don't believe NOTHING nobody else says about God because I know God and I know what he said in HIS book, but I have to tell you... 99.99 % of the stuff «religion» claims God said... Is not what he actually said... If you look at what he said.

All those religion books that were written thousand years ago by people who had no idea about other cultures or how could they make sense one thousand years later are no better than cartoons.

This isn't about that though, this is more a lesson in how both religion and atheism together can be equally guilty of scamming people out of donations and book sales over trivial and distorted teachings.

I would say read the Holy Books start with the «Quran» being the latest Holy book that came combined to correct the older version ones read just for knowledge and not for finding a religion but to learn what they say about God..

At least religions have books about their Gods and morality that have been claimed for thousands of years to have come from their Gods.

He says that he would «convert on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't have been contrived; scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same religion.

The «Book» only gives you guidance, tells you what you can do to get your own answers about religion, but you still have to do your own work.

I am neither a christian or muslim but what right do christians have in making fun of muslims and their books when so much trash exists in their houses only difference being that other religions are open about their practices and even accept their mistakes..

that is exactly the truth and read about the islam actually from their books if you can and you will find the terrible and disturbing facts about this religion.

do I need any approval before I practice my religion, do I have to prove my religion before I practice, my holy book further describe that you must carry a gun in 21st century because there is too much crime in this world, but it doesn't say much about if I migrate to another country these rules will still apply, Or I should modified them according to my comfort, like talking in English which is not my religious language wearing pants or not, having education or not, standing in line or not, I am so confused what should I do can someone help me, should I go back to country where my religion originated or back in time ask my guru questions about western world confusion, or just decide by myself what suites me, or preach other develop country that you guys are wrong be peaceful.

Before you judge Romney concerning his Mormon religion do yourself a favor and get a book or two and read about who founded the religion and what they believe then you can make an intelligent decision.

It's not a religious book, and the author uses quite a bit of profanity, but he makes some astute observations about religion and politics in the United States.

In my book «Religious Literacy,» I argued that the United States is one of the most religious countries on Earth, and yet Americans know very little about their own religions and even less about the religions of others.

We reached out to scholars, religion experts and Warren's wife, Kay, to ask about the book's impact after a decade.

The book includes a series of reflections on the importance of thinking critically about faith and the value of asking difficult questions regarding everything from God to religion to language to government.

All books about other religions, for example, are written by Christians as attacks on other religions.

The Dutch theologian A. A. van Ruler said in one of his books that sex, politics, and religion are the only subjects worth talking about.

«full of BS organized religion is» the book of 1st Timothy Chapter one tells us about how Satan was trying to inflitrate the church through devil following people, and possible believers led astray by the devil.

The book is about, inter alia, the perduring force of religion....

Comments here are not about disparaging «faith» — that's the fundamental of any religion — it's about each religion being «the religion», about the belief that person (or persons) who wrote the books are infallible and that scholars who interpret them do so accurately.

Berger has subsequently and substantively changed his thinking about religion and secularization, but the theory set forth in that book continues to have enormous influence on the discussion of these questions.

From a Christian perspective, one of the striking things about the film and the book series is the absence of explicit religion or references to God.

Although the book reminds us of a time when deep social divisiveness was not at the core of the culture wars, was he right to suggest that religion was an under - acknowledged party in American discussions about pluralism?

It's about time people start leaving religion in the history books where it belongs.

That Dawkins, whose newest book is Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist, spouts off about religion and religions isn't news to anyone.

He's written several books about the two religions.

It's amazing that a «religion scholar» who writes books about God exhibits such poor exegesis of basic biblical texts.

I work with people from many different religions, and have read books about all of these religions from the Christian perspective.

I have also read books about Christianity from the perspective of these other religions.

Here some other key words from the book's title and subtitle must be underscored: the relationship between politics and religion must be thought about with reference to the common good; our conversations must be about how religion figures into our shared life.

Beginning with a Nietzschean analysis of Greek thinking and literature which sees the distancing of the numinous as the center of the Greek experience, this book attempts to demonstrate that the higher expressions of religion in both East and West revolve about an absolute antithesis between religion and reality, wherein religion can only truly and finally realize itself by an absolute negation, dissolution or annihilation of reality itself.

My usual impression of these books — whether written by Christians about another religion, or written about Christians from the perspective of another religions — is that they are harsh, overly critical, and tend to unfairly treat and quote the religion that is being critiqued.

Richard Dawkins very eloquently argues these facts in his book «The God Delusion» If we want to talk about psychology and god, how about we discuss how absolutely irrational religion is.

In this book he argued that religion created a conscience which is quick to understand social need, that religious philanthropy gives charitably but without raising ultimate questions about the causes of social maladjustment, that religion «unifies individuals, stabilizes societies, creates social imagination and sanctifies social life; but it also perpetuates ancient evils, increases social inertia, creates illusions and preserves superstitions.

Second, for someone who is so uptight as this author about knowing religions and even writing a book about it, the mere fact that not ONCE in this article did you use the official and correct name of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints (aka Mormon) in my mind completely discredits your temper tantrum.

William Charlton appears to have a modest aim in writing this book, which is simply to be «reasonable» about religion.

Even those for whom this tradition is only a remembered ethos, not a matter of practice, reason about religion and public life in ways that answer questions unasked in Bloom's book.

Indeed, it was his latest book, The Vast Majority: A Journey to the World's Poor (Simon & Schuster, 1977), that occasioned our conversation about religion.

Currently I am about to complete a book on this question of the encounter between the biblical faith and African religion.

erience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

If someone was born in Saudi Arabia, they would be Muslim and if they were born in the US, they would be Christian... It's up to them to figure out that religion is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of fairy tales... My favorite fairy tale is about the guy who was told not to look behind and was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I am still at peace...