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Spiritual Marketplace - Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion (Paperback, New Ed): Wade Clark Roof Spiritual Marketplace - Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion (Paperback, New Ed)
Wade Clark Roof
R1,322 Discovery Miles 13 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In large chain bookstores the "religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica. As Wade Clark Roof notes, such changes over the last two decades reflect a shift away from religion as traditionally understood to more diverse and creative approaches. But what does this splintering of the religious perspective say about Americans? Have we become more interested in spiritual concerns or have we become lost among trends? Do we value personal spirituality over traditional religion and no longer see ourselves united in a larger community of faith? Roof first credited this religious diversity to the baby boomers in his bestselling "A Generation of Seekers" (1993). He returns to interview many of these people, now in mid-life, to reveal a generation with a unique set of spiritual values--a generation that has altered our historic interpretations of religious beliefs, practices, and symbols, and perhaps even our understanding of the sacred itself.

The quest culture created by the baby boomers has generated a "marketplace" of new spiritual beliefs and practices and of revisited traditions. As Roof shows, some Americans are exploring faiths and spiritual disciplines for the first time; others are rediscovering their lost traditions; others are drawn to small groups and alternative communities; and still others create their own mix of values and metaphysical beliefs. "Spiritual Marketplace" charts the emergence of five subcultures: dogmatists, born-again Christians, mainstream believers, metaphysical believers and seekers, and secularists. Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews for over a decade, Roof reports on the religious and spiritual styles, family patterns, and moral vision and values for each of these subcultures. The result is an innovative, engaging approach to understanding how religious life is being reshaped as we move into the next century.

Homo Digitalis - Smartphones, soziale Netzwerke und das Gehirn (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2018): Christian Montag Homo Digitalis - Smartphones, soziale Netzwerke und das Gehirn (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2018)
Christian Montag
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Das vorliegende essential beschaftigt sich mit der Nutzung des Smartphones und gibt Antworten darauf, warum wir immer mehr Zeit mit diesen Geraten verbringen. Es wird beschrieben, welche Gruppen besonders von einer ubermassigen Smartphone-Nutzung betroffen sind. Zusatzlich wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob digitale Welten tatsachlich unser Gehirn verandern. Ausserdem: Wie sieht eine gesunde Smartphone-Nutzung in der Familie und am Arbeitsplatz aus? Das Buch halt Tipps fur einen moeglichst stressfreien Umgang mit digitalen Welten bereit, damit wir wieder lernen, im Hier und Jetzt zu leben.

The Cosmic Playbook - 30 Vital Mini Meditations For Love, Hope and Courage (Paperback): P K Davies The Cosmic Playbook - 30 Vital Mini Meditations For Love, Hope and Courage (Paperback)
P K Davies
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Conversations About Philosophy, Volume 2 (Paperback): Howard Burton Conversations About Philosophy, Volume 2 (Paperback)
Howard Burton
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Antropologia Filosófica (Paperback): Henrique C de Lima Vaz Antropologia Filosófica (Paperback)
Henrique C de Lima Vaz
R1,141 Discovery Miles 11 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Refuge of Trees - loose poetics (Paperback): Jonathan Seiling The Refuge of Trees - loose poetics (Paperback)
Jonathan Seiling
R265 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R18 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Woman of Reason (Paperback): Green The Woman of Reason (Paperback)
Green
R579 Discovery Miles 5 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a timely re-appraisal of feminist political thinkers and their male contemporaries, providing a re-evaluation of feminist humanism.

Theistic Humanism of African Philosophy - The Great Debate on Substance and Method of Philosophy (Paperback): Maduabuchi Dukor Theistic Humanism of African Philosophy - The Great Debate on Substance and Method of Philosophy (Paperback)
Maduabuchi Dukor
R1,380 Discovery Miles 13 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Logic in Theology and Other Essays (Paperback): Isaac Taylor Logic in Theology and Other Essays (Paperback)
Isaac Taylor
R758 R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Save R94 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Secular Assemblages - Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment (Paperback): Marek Sullivan Secular Assemblages - Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment (Paperback)
Marek Sullivan
R1,271 Discovery Miles 12 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power. While existing works of secular intellectual history, especially Charles Taylor's A Secular Age (2007), tend to rely on rationalistic conceptions of Enlightenment thought, Sullivan offers an alternative perspective on key thinkers such as Descartes, Montesquieu and Diderot, asserting that these figures sought to reinstate emotion against the rationalistic tendencies of the past. From Descartes's last work Les Passions de l'Ame (1649) to Baron d'Holbach's System of Nature (1770), the French Enlightenment demonstrated an acute understanding of the limits of reason, with crucial implications for our current 'postsecular' and 'postliberal' moment. Sullivan also emphasizes the importance of Western constructions of Oriental religions for the history of the secular, identifying a distinctively secular-yet impassioned-form of Orientalism that emerged in the 18th century. Mahomet's racial profile in Voltaire's Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet (1741), for example, functioned as a polemic device calibrated for emotional impact, in line with Enlightenment efforts to generate an affective body of anti-Catholic propaganda that simultaneously shored up people's sense of national belonging. By exposing the Enlightenment as a nationalistic and affective movement that resorted to racist, Orientalist and emotional tropes from the outset, Sullivan ultimately undermines modern nationalist appeals to the Enlightenment as a mark of European distinction.

The Power of Mammon - The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790-1922 (Hardcover): Curtis D. Johnson The Power of Mammon - The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790-1922 (Hardcover)
Curtis D. Johnson
R1,668 Discovery Miles 16 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In The Power of Mammon, Curtis D. Johnson describes how the market economy and market-related forces, such as the media, politics, individualism, and consumerism, radically changed the nature of Baptist congregational life in New York State during three centuries. Collectively, these forces emphasized the importance of material wealth over everything else, and these values penetrated the thinking of Baptist ministers and laypeople alike. Beginning in the 1820s, the pastorate turned into a profession, the laity's influence diminished, closeknit religious fellowships evolved into voluntary associations, and evangelism became far less effective. Men, being the most engaged in the market, secularized the more quickly and became less involved in church affairs. By the 1870s, male disengagement opened the door to increased female participation in church governance. While scientific advances and religious pluralism also played a role, the market and its related distractions were the primary forces behind the secularization of Baptist life. The Power of Mammon is history from the ground up. Unlike many denominational histories, this book emphasizes congregational life and the importance of the laity. This focus allows the reader to hear the voices of ordinary Baptists who argued over a host of issues. Johnson deftly connects large social trends with exhaustive attention to archival material, including numerous well-chosen records preserved by forty-two New York churches. These records include details related to membership, discipline, finance, and institutional history. Utilizing statistical analysis to achieve even greater clarity, Johnson effectively bridges the gap between the particularity of church records and the broader history of New York's Baptist churches. Johnson's narrative of Baptist history in New York will serve as a model for other regional studies and adds to our understanding of secularization and its impact on American religion.

The American Scholar - With a Biography by William Peterfield Trent (Paperback): Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar - With a Biography by William Peterfield Trent (Paperback)
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Contributions by William Peterfield Trent
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Before the Sunrise - A Haiku Poetry Collection (Paperback): Germann Before the Sunrise - A Haiku Poetry Collection (Paperback)
Germann
R240 R223 Discovery Miles 2 230 Save R17 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Alma Mater (Paperback): Ajani Abdul-Khaliq Alma Mater (Paperback)
Ajani Abdul-Khaliq
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Get A Hold Of Yourself (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Xolani Kacela Get A Hold Of Yourself (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Xolani Kacela; Illustrated by Shamim Rashid
R419 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R22 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Individualized Religion - Practitioners and their Communities (Hardcover): Claire Wanless Individualized Religion - Practitioners and their Communities (Hardcover)
Claire Wanless
R2,767 R1,689 Discovery Miles 16 890 Save R1,078 (39%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores individualized religion in and around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Claire Wanless demonstrates that counter to the claims of secularization theorists, the combination of informal structures and practices can provide a viable basis for socially significant religious activity that can sustain itself. The subjects of this research claim a variety of religious identities and practices, and are suspicious of religious institutions, hierarchies, rules and dogmas. Yet they participate actively in an overlapping and cross-linking informal network of practice communities and other associations. Their engagements propagate and sustain a core ideology that prioritizes subjectivity, locates authority at the level of the individual, and also predicates itself on ideals of sharing, mutuality and community. Providing a new theory of religious association, this book is a nuanced counterpoint to the secularization thesis in the UK and points the way to new research on individual religion.

Imperfect Garden - The Legacy of Humanism (Paperback): Tzvetan Todorov Imperfect Garden - The Legacy of Humanism (Paperback)
Tzvetan Todorov
R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but sympathetic excavation of humanism, Tzvetan Todorov seeks an answer to modernity's fundamental challenge: how to maintain our hard-won liberty without paying too dearly in social ties, common values, and a coherent and responsible sense of self. Todorov reads afresh the works of major humanists--primarily Montaigne, Rousseau, and Constant, but also Descartes, Montesquieu, and Toqueville. Each chapter considers humanism's approach to one major theme of human existence: liberty, social life, love, self, morality, and expression. Discussing humanism in dialogue with other systems, Todorov finds a response to the predicament of modernity that is far more instructive than any offered by conservatism, scientific determinism, existential individualism, or humanism's other contemporary competitors. Humanism suggests that we are members of an intelligent and sociable species who can act according to our will while connecting the well-being of other members with our own. It is through this understanding of free will, Todorov argues, that we can use humanism to rescue universality and reconcile human liberty with solidarity and personal integrity. Placing the history of ideas at the service of a quest for moral and political wisdom, Todorov's compelling and no doubt controversial rethinking of humanist ideas testifies to the enduring capacity of those ideas to meditate on--and, if we are fortunate, cultivate--the imperfect garden in which we live.

The day and the dweller (Paperback): Jonathan Thompson The day and the dweller (Paperback)
Jonathan Thompson
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rationalism and Humanism - Delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1 on October 18, 1933 - With an Excerpt from the... Rationalism and Humanism - Delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1 on October 18, 1933 - With an Excerpt from the Economic Philosophies, 1941 by Ratish Mohan Agrawala (Paperback)
J.A. Hobson, Ratish Mohan Agrawala
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Learning Who You Are - An Introduction to Experimental Spirituality (Paperback): Peter Calvert, Keith Hill Learning Who You Are - An Introduction to Experimental Spirituality (Paperback)
Peter Calvert, Keith Hill
R387 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
For Humanism - Explorations in Theory and Politics (Hardcover): David Alderson, Robert Spencer For Humanism - Explorations in Theory and Politics (Hardcover)
David Alderson, Robert Spencer
R2,117 Discovery Miles 21 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Today, anti-humanism is a dominant, even definitive, feature of contemporary theory. Setting out to challenge this tendency, editors David Alderson and Kevin Anderson argue that the political moment demands a reappraisal of the humanist tradition. Humanism, in all its diversity and complexity, may facilitate the renewal of progressive theory through the championing of human subjectivity, agency and freedom. Across four extended essays, David Alderson, Kevin Anderson, Barbara Epstein and Robert Spencer engage critically with the Marxist tradition, recent developments in poststructuralism, postcolonialism and queer theory. Incorporating an overview of the historical context that resulted in socialist humanism’s eclipse in the 1950s and '60s, and a strident critique of anti-humanism, For Humanism offers a coherent and compelling argument for the rehabilitation of a much maligned tradition.

The Human Animal Earthling Identity - Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements... The Human Animal Earthling Identity - Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements (Paperback)
Carrie P. Freeman
R1,067 Discovery Miles 10 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With The Human Animal Earthling Identity Carrie P. Freeman asks us to reconsider the devastating division we have created between the human and animal conditions, leading to mass exploitation, injustice, and extinction. As a remedy, Freeman believes social movements should collectively foster a cultural shift in human identity away from an egoistic anthropocentrism (human-centered outlook) and toward a universal altruism (species-centered ethic), so people may begin to see themselves more broadly as "human animal earthlings." To formulate the basis for this identity shift, Freeman examines overlapping values (supporting life, fairness, responsibility, and unity) that are common in global rights declarations and in the current campaign messages of sixteen global social movement organizations that work on human/civil rights, nonhuman animal protection, and/or environmental issues, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the World Wildlife Federation, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Rainforest Action Network, and Greenpeace. She also interviews the leaders of these advocacy groups to gain their insights on how human and nonhuman protection causes can become allies by engaging common opponents and activating shared values and goals on issues such as the climate crisis, enslavement, extinction, pollution, inequality, destructive farming and fishing, and threats to democracy. Freeman's analysis of activist discourse considers ethical ideologies on behalf of social justice, animal rights, and environmentalism, using animal rights' respect for sentient individuals as a bridge connecting human rights to a more holistic valuing of species and ecological systems. Ultimately, Freeman uses her findings to recommend a set of universal values around which all social movements' campaign messages can collectively cultivate respectful relations between "human animal earthlings," fellow sentient beings, and the natural world we share.

The Human Animal Earthling Identity - Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements... The Human Animal Earthling Identity - Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements (Hardcover)
Carrie P. Freeman
R3,613 Discovery Miles 36 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With The Human Animal Earthling Identity Carrie P. Freeman asks us to reconsider the devastating division we have created between the human and animal conditions, leading to mass exploitation, injustice, and extinction. As a remedy, Freeman believes social movements should collectively foster a cultural shift in human identity away from an egoistic anthropocentrism (human-centered outlook) and toward a universal altruism (species-centered ethic), so people may begin to see themselves more broadly as "human animal earthlings." To formulate the basis for this identity shift, Freeman examines overlapping values (supporting life, fairness, responsibility, and unity) that are common in global rights declarations and in the current campaign messages of sixteen global social movement organizations that work on human/civil rights, nonhuman animal protection, and/or environmental issues, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the World Wildlife Federation, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Rainforest Action Network, and Greenpeace. She also interviews the leaders of these advocacy groups to gain their insights on how human and nonhuman protection causes can become allies by engaging common opponents and activating shared values and goals on issues such as the climate crisis, enslavement, extinction, pollution, inequality, destructive farming and fishing, and threats to democracy. Freeman's analysis of activist discourse considers ethical ideologies on behalf of social justice, animal rights, and environmentalism, using animal rights' respect for sentient individuals as a bridge connecting human rights to a more holistic valuing of species and ecological systems. Ultimately, Freeman uses her findings to recommend a set of universal values around which all social movements' campaign messages can collectively cultivate respectful relations between "human animal earthlings," fellow sentient beings, and the natural world we share.

Christ-The Original Matrix (Paperback): Timothy D Carroll Christ-The Original Matrix (Paperback)
Timothy D Carroll; Foreword by Richard K Murray
R352 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R28 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sensum - Untangling Our Innermost Interpretations (Paperback, 2nd ed.): N.R. Adams Sensum - Untangling Our Innermost Interpretations (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
N.R. Adams
R327 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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