Download or read book Taming the Agnostic written by M. Krishna and published by Pen Press Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taming the Agnostic Sai Baba and the Irrepressible Lawyer written by M Krishna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating, true adventure on two planes: physical and spiritual. It is a lawyer's amazing encounter with a succession of events that challenge his world of logic and scientific reasoning. He discovers that dogmatic belief systems are nothing more than historical records of Man's spiritual development, embellished with myths. However, he is unable to dismiss the Invisible Hand that is ever at work re-arranging and directing the affairs of Man advancing him on that plane. He looks back at the events in his life, including the inexplicable, and sees a clear pattern that gives meaning to what seemed like chaos and disasters. Unlike traditional books on the intangible, Taming the Agnostic is down-to-earth and it will challenge, intrigue and enrich even the skeptics. It is a serious challenge to every intelligent being to think outside their customary envelope and grapple with the unknown reality, or forever run from that which their current knowledge cannot cope with.
Download or read book The Universal Review written by Harry Quilter and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discourses on Violence and Punishment written by Krešimir Petkovic and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together various discourses concerned with violence and punishment, paying special attention to the extreme variations of these phenomena. Starting from a narrow definition of violence as an infliction of physical harm, paired with a broad discussion of its causes and a wide definition of punishment as an authority claim to retribution or reform, the book maps and interprets political-theoretical discourses on the death penalty, historical explanations of the changes of violence and punishment, and comparative differences in punishment. It also puts violence and punishment into perspective with political power, world religions, literature and film, and criminological theory. The final chapter changes the perspective taken in the bulk of the book, dealing with discourses of theodicy in the face of cases of extreme violence and suffering. By juxtaposing many unusual discourses, the book attempts to fulfill three primary functions. First, it skeptically probes numerous discourses explaining and legitimizing violence and punishment in the light of extreme cases. The book is a map of violence and punishment. Second, it invites the reader to confront, choose, and combine these discourses when thinking about facts and norms of punishment. The book provides an analytical toolbox for research of violence and punishment. Third, the book presents wider sense-seeking strategies employed to deal with suffering such as irony, redemption, or rationalization.
Download or read book The Agnostic written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greatest Lie Ever Told written by M Krishna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a Barrister's legalistic scrutiny of the Bible to court standards and his bold, no-nonsense verdict. It is a shocking exposure of institutional lies that have endangered peace, liberty and lives for nearly 2,000 years. Peddled as the Word of God on the back of a fictitious, tribal God these stupendous lies prevent intellectual maturity and limit a society's thinking to primitive legends. It enables the reader to see the corrosive force of mythical religions and their propensity to plunge the world into a succession of deadly confrontations - all driven by depravity and immoral, primitive tales that glorify violence and tear families apart. This book succinctly brings to light the corruptive influence of Christianity on politicians, which drives them to undertake military missions to undermine human rights and democratic freedom of those of other faiths to choose their own way of life and government.
Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taming Lust written by Doron S. Ben-Atar and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown delve into the specifics to determine what larger social, political, or religious forces could have compelled New England courts to condemn two octogenarians for sexual misbehavior typically associated with much younger men. The stories of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn are less about the two old men than New England officials who, riding the rough waves of modernity, returned to the severity of their ancestors. The political upheaval of the Revolution and the new republic created new kinds of cultural experience—both exciting and frightening—at a moment when New England farmers and village elites were contesting long-standing assumptions about divine creation and the social order. Ben-Atar and Brown offer a rare and vivid perspective on anxieties about sexual and social deviance in the early republic.
Download or read book The Bibliotheck written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creatures of Light and Darkness written by Roger Zelazny and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two gods, two houses, one quest, and the eternal war between life and death To save his kingdom, Anubis, Lord of the Dead, sends forth his servant on a mission of vengeance. At the same time, from The House of Life, Osiris sends forth his son, Horus, on the same mission to destroy utterly and forever The Prince Who Was a Thousand. But neither of these superhuman warriors is prepared for the strange and harrowing world of mortal life, and The Thing That Cries in the Night may well destroy not only their worlds, but all mankind. As Zelazny did with the Hindu pantheon in the legendary, groundbreaking classic Lord of Light, the master storyteller here breathes new life into the Egyptian gods with another dazzling tale of mythology and imagination.
Download or read book Literary World Choice Readings from the Best New Books with Critical Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agnostic Age written by Paul Horwitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution is a book for lawyers, law professors, law students, lawmakers, and any citizen who cares about church-state conflict and about the relationship between religion and liberal democracy. It provides a way to understand and balance the conflicts that inevitably arise when neighbors struggle with neighbors, and when liberal democracy tries to reach common ground with religious beliefs and practices. Paul Horwitz argues that the fundamental reason for the church-state conflict is our aversion to questions of religious truth. By trying to avoid the question of religious truth, law and religion has ultimately only reached a state of incoherence. He asserts that the answer to this dilemma is to take "the agnostic turn": to take an empathetic and imaginative approach to questions of religious truth, one that actually confronts rather than avoids these questions, but without reaching a final judgment about what that truth is. This book offers a sensitive and sensible approach to questions of church-state conflict, justifying what the courts have done in some cases and demanding new results in others. It explains how the church-state conflict extends beyond law and religion itself, and goes to some of the central questions at the heart of the troubled relationship between religion and liberal democracy in a post-9/11 era.
Download or read book Renegade Run written by Esther I. Starbuck and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taming the Gods written by Ian Buruma and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy. And even in polytheistic Asia, the development of democracy has been hindered in some countries, particularly China, by a long history in which religion was tightly linked to the state. Ian Buruma is the first writer to provide a sharp-eyed look at the tensions between religion and politics on three continents. Drawing on many contemporary and historical examples, he argues that the violent passions inspired by religion must be tamed in order to make democracy work. Comparing the United States and Europe, Buruma asks why so many Americans--and so few Europeans--see religion as a help to democracy. Turning to China and Japan, he disputes the notion that only monotheistic religions pose problems for secular politics. Finally, he reconsiders the story of radical Islam in contemporary Europe, from the case of Salman Rushdie to the murder of Theo van Gogh. Sparing no one, Buruma exposes the follies of the current culture war between defenders of "Western values" and "multiculturalists," and explains that the creation of a democratic European Islam is not only possible, but necessary. Presenting a challenge to dogmatic believers and dogmatic secularists alike, Taming the Gods powerfully argues that religion and democracy can be compatible--but only if religious and secular authorities are kept firmly apart.
Download or read book Taming Tension written by W. Phillip Keller and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1976-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming Tension is filled with suggestions for living a calm, healthful, and joyous life. Keller writes in simple, straightforward language--his message is pratical, plain, and, above all, effective. Keller's approach is to the whole person--he treats the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual sides of life. For a life free from tension, he explains the benefits of outdoor living--even for the city dweller, and convincingly discusses the importance of disciplined thinking, knowing God, and having faith...{back cover summary}
Download or read book Tamed By a Bear written by Priscilla Stuckey and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Priscilla Stuckey shines a brilliant light on the relationship we long to cultivate with the deepest wellsprings of our wisdom and love . . . This is a groundbreaking book, written with extraordinary clarity, beauty, and radical honesty." —Gail D. Storey, author of I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award In an age of materialism, language of spirit or spirits seems at best suspect and at worst alien or naïve. When Priscilla Stuckey begins hearing Bear’s voice, she is a writer and religious studies professor in her fifties. Though she enjoys communing with trees and birds and the land, she intellectually knows better than to try talking directly with spirit. Yet searching for the truth of her own identity leads her directly toward what she is most skeptical of. As Stuckey opens to her spirit animal helper and his affectionate, jovial wisdom, she begins to realize the slow dawning of faith. Tamed by a Bear shows one person responding to the call of her heart, which is also the call of Earth to all human beings today: to listen to a more–than–human wisdom so people can address the social and environmental crises facing the world. At this moment, when the future of life on Earth as we know it hangs in the balance—threatened by climate change, species extinctions, and extreme economic inequality—the key to survival is found in answering one question: How can humans live more peaceably and sustainably with the rest of nature? The heart–opening conversations between Bear and Stuckey suggest a reinvigorating of nature–spirituality in everyday life. Their dialogues show an educated, thoughtful person grappling with her skepticism about Earth spirits and gradually saying yes to a call from beyond her intellectual understanding.
Download or read book Malraux the Absolute Agnostic Or Metamorphosis as Universal Law written by Claude Tannery and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond merely biographical or textual interpretation, Claude Tannery traces the philosophy of life and art developed by André Malraux. With both sensitivity and expert interpretation he defines the issues—personal and artistic as well as political—that underlie Malraux's writings—including early as well as late works, novels, speeches, and essays. The result is a new and subtle portrait of Malraux.
