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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian worship
Decision making begins with a willingness to submit your intentions
to God's perfect will and humbly follow His direction and
understanding the impact of consequences in your decision making!
The daily decisions that you make today will determine what kind of
impact you will make tomorrow. The key to making better decisions
is to educate yourself, make adjustments necessary, let your
decisions be based on a solid foundation and take proper
precaution. This book can help you understand decision making
process and help you develop in moving forward in your journey of
life and also makes the principles in the Bible relevant to
everyday living.
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Holy Ground
(Hardcover)
Julie K. Aageson
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It is a truism that religion has to do with social cohesion, but
the precise nature of this link has eluded scholars and scientists.
Drawing on new research in religiously motivated prosociality,
evolution of cooperation, and system theory, this book describes
how fluctuations in individuals' strategic environment give impetus
to a self-organizatory process where ritual behavior works to
alleviate uncertainties in social commitment. It also traces the
dynamic roles played by emotions, social norms, and socioeconomic
context. While exploring the social functions of ritual and
revivalist behavior, the book seeks to avoid the fallacies that
result from disregarding their explicit religious character. To
illustrate these processes, a case study of Christian revivals in
early 19th-century Finland is included. The thesis of the book is
relevant to theories of the evolution of religion and the role of
religion in organizing human societies.
Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a
concept, the idea of ritual integrates the study of behavior both
within and beyond the domain of religion. Ritual can be both
secular and religious in character. There is renewed interest in
questions such as: Why do rituals exist at all? What has been, and
continues to be, their place in society? How do they change over
time? Such questions exist against a backdrop of assumptions about
development, modernization, and disenchantment of the world.Written
with the specific needs of students of religious studies in mind, "
Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion" surveys the field of ritual
studies looking at it both historically within anthropology and in
terms of its contemporary relevance to mass phenomena.
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