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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little interest in the religious aspects of Buddhism, and the practice occurs within secular contexts such as hospitals, schools, and the workplace. Is it possible to recover from the Buddhist teachings a vision of human flourishing that is secular rather than religious...
Author
Series
Great courses volume 6423
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Professor Cherry delivers lectures on the religious aspects of the Jewish civilization from biblical times to the present, and details the historical background against which changes within Judaism have occurred.
Author
Language
English
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"The Mormon Church entered the public square on LGBT issues by joining forces with traditional-marriage proponents in Hawaii in 1993. Since then, the church has been a significant player in the ongoing saga of LGBT rights within the United States and at times has carried decisive political clout. Gregory Prince draws from over 50,000 pages of public records, private documents, and interview transcripts to capture, in detail hitherto unavailable, the...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others, or themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? This provocative and radical book shows that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel that it is the morally right thing to do. In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to regulate social relationships...
Author
Publisher
Herder
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"La obra está dividida en dos partes. La primera consiste en una collección de ocho cartas de dos padres generals de la Compañía de Jesús, Lorenzo Ricci y Jan Roothaan. Fueron escritas en los siglos XVIII y XIX en momentos en que la Compañía sufrió dudas y persecuciones. Asimismo, constituyen un tratado acera de la tribulación y el modo de sobrellevarla. Las cartas de la tribulacion propuestas en la segunda parte del libro fueron escritas...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how Mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world. If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the "disenchantment" of the world, stripping material objects...
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