Swanson , Guy E. Religion and Regime : A Sociological Account of the Reformation . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1967. Swanson analyzes and characterizes the forms of government in some forty European states in the ...
A summary of major world religions.
The Religion of Humanity
Each person is born in a circumstance which is not of his own choosing. The religion of his family or the ideology of the state is thrust upon him from the very beginning of his existence in this world.
Over 1 million copies sold! Compare 20 cults, sects, and religions--this new 7th Edition compares 2 more religious groups! Many religious groups use the same terms but hold opposite beliefs.
This introductory text helps students think through the basic questions that arise in the study of religion.
"The Pragmatics of Defining Religion" is a multidisciplinary volume on the problem of the definition of religion with chapters on the polemics of defining religion in modern contexts, the history of the concept of religion, the methodology ...
authors and teams of scholars, including John R. McKivigan, The War against Proslavery Religion (1984), James Oscar Farmer Jr., The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values (1986), ...
'Grace Davie is one of the best analysts of religion in contemporary sociology. This book caps a distinguished record of studies of religion - first of Britain, then of Europe, then globally.
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion Steven W. Ramey ... 33 Significantly, by the time he came to write The Ego and the Id (1923), Freud had revised his views on melancholia. No longer does melancholia constitute a “pathological” ...
These differences and the possible reasons for them are explored in this book. The conclusion of this book is that Muslims and Christians have more shared values and even theological similarities than differences.