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The Soul Delusion reveals how traditional religious perspectives on the soul mislead people into false hope, terrifies them with fear of eternal torture, and leads to specious claims about supernatural forces. It concludes with a rousing account of the delights of being soul-free.

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Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together. With a new foreword by Rowan Williams.

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Bringing together leading scholars, this volume is the first of its kind to address the growing global phenomenon of transnational repression using tactics that include surveillance, coercion, harassment and physical violence in a comparative perspective.

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An innovative approach to ethics, showing that welcoming other persons is the primary moral act. The use of stories and cases make the book an ideal text for students to explore ethical questions in the classroom and in their lives. The book also describes a variety of practices that help shape us into more welcoming persons.

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Religious leadership often hold the surrender of personal will, intellect and control as a necessary part of followership. Using Nigeria as a case study, Something to Believe In explores the real-life consequence of mass religious surrender on the growth of a society.

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An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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Follow the author's experiences building the India Cultural Center and Temple (ICCT), a Hindu temple in Memphis. Learn the true history of ICCT and discover what it takes to build a Hindu temple from scratch. The illustrations are rare, and all proceeds go to charity.

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Find out all you need to know about Hadith methodology and literature.

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How did human societies scale up from tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today--even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation How did organized religions with "Big Gods"--the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths--spread to colonize most minds in the world In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan m

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Argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. This book shows that the Christian conception of God resulted - almost inevitably and for the same reasons - in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European witch-hunts, and the Western abolition of slavery.

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Proposes a theory that provides purpose for our lives while at the same time being completely consistent with everything we have discovered about the universe and life on Earth. This book proposes that science can explain God and God can explain science.

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Translations from original sources, including topics such as sacrifice, festivals, mystery cults, divination and ancient magic, provide an introduction to Greek religious belief, ritual and culture. Glossary, chronology, bibliography, maps.

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Discusses the profound implications of unity of personhood and of identity within change, beginning with the ironic story of a young poet who cannot fulfill the ethical claims of his engagement because of the possible consequences of his marriage.

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In this challenging and provocative book, Tom Frame, one of Australia's best-known writers on religion and society, examines diminishing theological belief and declining denominational affiliation. He argues that Australia has never been a very religious nation but that few Australians have deliberately rejected belief.

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