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The God delusion
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ISBN: 0618680004 9780618680009 Year: 2006 Publisher: Boston, Mass. Houghton Mifflin

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Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology.From Human Minds to Divine Minds
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ISBN: 9781599473819 Year: 2011 Publisher: West Conshocken, PA Templeton Press

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"Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology is the eighth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, well-known cognitive scientist Justin L. Barrett offers an accessible overview of this interdisciplinary field, reviews key findings in this area, and discusses the implications of these findings for religious thought and practice. Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of minds and mental activity, and as such, it addresses a fundamental feature of what it is to be human. Further, in so far as religious traditions concern ideas and beliefs about the nature of humans, the nature of the world, and the nature of the divine, cognitive science can contribute both directly and indirectly to these theological concerns. Barrett shows how direct contributions come from the growing area called cognitive science of religion (CSR), which investigates how human cognitive systems inform and constrain religious thought, experience, and expression. CSR attempts to provide answers to questions such as: Why it is that humans tend to be religious? And why are certain ideas (e.g. the possibility of an afterlife) so cross-culturally recurrent? Barrett also covers the indirect implications that cognitive science has for theology, such as human similarities and differences with the animal world, freedom and determinism, and the relationship between minds and bodies. Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology critically reviews the research on these fascinating questions and discusses the many implications that arise from them. In addition, this short volume also offers suggestions for future research, making it ideal not only for those looking for an overview of the field thus far, but also for those seeking a glimpse of where the field might be going in the future"--Provided by publisher.


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Gesprekken over de natuurlijke religie
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ISBN: 9055736023 9789055736027 Year: 2005 Publisher: Budel Damon

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De ondergang van het atheïsme : opkomst en verval van het ongeloof in de moderne wereld.
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ISBN: 9025956459 9789025956455 Year: 2006 Publisher: Kampen Ten Have

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Religion for atheists : a non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
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ISBN: 9780307379108 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Pantheon

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De vrolijke atheïst.
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ISBN: 9789089242204 Year: 2012 Publisher: Antwerpen Houtekiet

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De auteur doet verslag van zijn levensbeschouwelijke ontwikkeling: het gaat van autobiografie naar mensbeeld, naar maatschappijopvatting, om uit te komen bij de wiskundige verbeelding. Dit verslag is ook een onderzoek: is de opvatting, dat er een plan afkomstig uit een hogere werkelijkheid aan alles ten grondslag ligt, noodzakelijk om het leven in alle facetten te begrijpen?


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L'esprit de l'athéisme: introduction à une spiritualité sans Dieu
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ISBN: 2226172734 9782226172730 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris Michel

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Peut-on se passer de religion ? Dieu existe-t-il ? Les athées sont-ils condamnés à vivre sans spiritualité ? Autant de questions décisives en plein "choc des civilisations" et "retour du religieux". André Comte-Sponville y répond avec la clarté et l'allégresse d'un grand philosophe mais aussi d'un "honnête homme", loin des ressentiments et des haines cristallisés par certains. Pour lui, la spiritualité est trop fondamentale pour qu'on l'abandonne aux intégristes de tous bords. De même que la laïcité est trop précieuse pour être confisquée par les anti-religieux les plus frénétiques. Aussi est-il urgent de retrouver une spiritualité sans Dieu, sans dogmes, sans Eglise, qui nous prémunisse autant du fanatisme que du nihilisme. André Comte-Sponville pense que le XXIe siècle sera spirituel et laïque ou ne sera pas. Il nous explique comment. Passionnant


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The Oxford handbook of atheism
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ISBN: 9780198745075 9780199644650 0199644659 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguably the most striking development in western socio-religious culture of the past decade or more. As such, it has spurred fertile (and often heated) discussions both within, and between, a diverse range of disciplines. Yet atheism, and the New Atheism, are by no means co-extensive. Interesting though it indeed is, the New Atheism is a single, historically and culturally specific manifestation of positive atheism (the that there is/are no God/s), which is itself but one form of a far deeper, broader, and more significant global phenomenon. The Oxford Handbook of Atheism is a pioneering edited volume, exploring atheism - understood in the broad sense of "an absence of belief in the existence of a God or gods" - in all the richness and diversity of its historical and contemporary expressions. Bringing together an international team of established and emerging scholars, it probes the varied manifestations and implications of unbelief from an array of disciplinary perspectives (philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, demography, psychology, natural sciences, gender and sexuality studies, literary criticism, film studies, musicology) and in a range of global contexts (Western Europe, North America, post-communist Europe, the Islamic world, Japan, India). Both surveying and synthesizing previous work, and presenting the major fruits of innovative recent research, the handbook is set to be a landmark text for the study of atheism.


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Apocalypse Delayed.The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses.Third Edition
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ISBN: 9781442616059 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto Press

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Charles Russell --- George Stetson --- the British Millenarian revival --- Albury Park eschatology --- Joseph A. Seiss --- Christ's return --- Nelson H. Barbour --- the Bible Student movement --- the Bible Students' Association --- the New Covenant schism --- theocracy --- Joseph Franklin Rutherford --- the Watch Tower schism of 1917 --- the Bible Students and the First World War --- Rutherford's ministry --- theocratic government --- social alienation --- the Bible Student - Jehovah's Witness community --- religion --- global expansion --- the Olin Moyle case --- freedom to preach --- world assemblies --- congregation committees --- disfellowshipping --- prophetic failure --- doctrine --- dissent --- the Governing Body --- false history --- critical study --- Jehovah's Witnesses --- The Watchtower --- Apostates --- religious persecution --- anti-Witness propaganda --- relations with the State --- military service --- political neutrality --- Marxist persecution --- progressive revelation --- natural theology and the Bible --- biblical interpretation --- philosophy of history --- Christology and Soteriology --- covenantal relationships --- spirit creatures --- the nature of humankind --- Baptism and the Lord's supper --- the Church --- creation --- Bible chronology --- eschatological prophecy --- the Resurrection --- the sacredness of life and blood --- the Witness hierarchy --- Governing Body Committees --- the World-Wide Headquarters --- Watch Tower wealth --- Watchtower literature --- branches --- elders and ministerial servants --- congregational meetings --- Evangelism --- membership --- recruitment --- conversion --- sex --- marriage --- education --- entertainment --- the arts --- literature --- moral values --- social relationships --- moral behaviour --- ethnic and racial attitudes --- mental health --- Watchtower policy --- conservatism --- George Storrs --- legal corporations

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