Download or read book Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom written by Peter Caws and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom are the personal stories of philosophers who were brought up religiously and have broken free, in one way or another, from restraint and oppression. As trained philosophers, they are well equipped to reflect on and analyze their experiences. In this book, they offer not only stories of stress and liberation but ruminations on the moral issues that arise when parents and other caregivers, in seeking to do good by their children, sometimes end up doing real harm to their personal development and sense of autonomy as individuals. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Raymond D. Bradley, Damien Alexander DuPont, Diane Enns, Paul H. Hirst, Amalia Jiva, Irfan Khawaja, Christine Overall, Tasia R. Persson, and Glen Pettigrove.

Download or read book Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom written by Peter Caws and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings together autobiographical narratives and reflections by philosophers who were brought up in strict religious environments"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Price of Freedom Denied written by Brian J. Grim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent persecution. Relying on a new source of coded data for nearly 200 countries and case studies of six countries, the book offers a global profile of religious freedom and religious persecution. Grim and Finke report that persecution is evident in all regions and is standard fare for many. They also find that religious freedoms are routinely denied and that government and the society at large serve to restrict these freedoms. They conclude that the price of freedom denied is high indeed.

Download or read book This Life written by Martin Hägglund and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the René Wellek Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald This Life offers a profoundly inspiring basis for transforming our lives, demonstrating that our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism. Philosopher Martin Hägglund argues that we need to cultivate not a religious faith in eternity but a secular faith devoted to our finite life together. He shows that all spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from economic and material conditions: what matters is how we treat one another in this life and what we do with our time. Engaging with great philosophers from Aristotle to Hegel and Marx, literary writers from Dante to Proust and Knausgaard, political economists from Mill to Keynes and Hayek, and religious thinkers from Augustine to Kierkegaard and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hägglund points the way to an emancipated life.

Download or read book Freedom of Religion written by Stephen A. Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 James Madison Prize for Outstanding Research in First Amendment Studies. What are the arguments for and against government restrictions on religious beliefs and practices? To what extent can or should government support religion? Why is religious liberty important? Now a comprehensive anthology comprising 300 important writings on religious liberty is available to address and examine these questions, and Smith provides the important historical grounding and philosophical positions that guide readers through these significant selections. It will remain a significant reference work to facilitate reasoned discussions of freedom of religion, whether for education or advocacy, in the classroom or the public sphere. This outstanding collection should be in every library and on the desk of anyone seeking to understand or shape public policies affecting religious liberty.

Download or read book Set Free written by Art Lindsley and published by Leafwood Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Religious freedom-our "first freedom"-is one of the most important things the American experiment gave the world. Sadly, many Americans have forgotten not only the importance of this core freedom but also that its roots are founded in biblical principles. Most Christians in the U.S. are either unaware of this fact or do not understand why it is important. They also do not know that they are called to champion religious freedom for all. As a result, the religious liberties we take for granted are now being challenged in the courts. What we do in the next ten years will have a significant and lasting impact on the direction of our country. In Set Free: Restoring Religious Freedom for All, editors Art Lindsley and Anne Rathbone Bradley explore the biblical underpinnings of religious freedom and how those biblical roots were understood throughout history, the essential role of religious freedom in promoting human flourishing, and how religious freedom is now being challenged. With contributions from Christian theologians, historians, and public policy analysts, Set Free provides readers with a firm understanding of Christianity's unique and essential contribution to religious freedom and why this precious freedom must be restored at all costs, for people of all faiths"--

Download or read book God in Freedom written by Luigi Luzzatti and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To believe and to know, faith and science; only liberty can cordinate these two supreme ideas, destined to diverge, to meet, to contradict each other, ideas which on account of this very divergence, this contradiction and this agreement, underlie the organic evolution of progress and civilization. -from God in Freedom LUIGI LUZZATTI; ALFONSO ARBIB-COSTA (TRANSLATOR) (1841-1927) was a scholar of tremendous erudition and authority; an expert in economics, law, and politics; a champion of religious freedom in Italy-and a triumphant one: he was the nation's first Jewish prime minister, serving from 1910 to 1911. Just before that groundbreaking civil victory, though, in 1909, he achieved his other great success: the publication of his God in Freedom. Greatly expanded for its first English-language edition (of which this volume is a replica) God in Freedom is one of the most comprehensive and historically important discourses on religious liberty ever written. Luzzatti explores the battle for intellectual and philosophical independence from its pre-Christian proponents in the Far East to the movements in his day to keep civic life free of pious influence in the United Kingdom, Europe, and America. Saint Francis of Assisi and the Ku Klux Klan, the Buddha and Darwin...all are present here, and others; too, whose thoughts and actions have tested the boundaries between civic and religious life. This is a history of faith and freedom that is itself a cry for tolerance, openness, and careful separation of the secular and the sacred.

Download or read book Faith and Freedom written by Barbara Ward and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1958 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating inquiry into the history and relationship of political freedom and religious faith, from the dawn of civilization to the crises of today: Communism, the emergence of Asia and Africa, the growth of the omnicompetent state, the depersonalization of society, and the demands for ever higher standards of living.

Download or read book In Defense of Christianity written by Ronald Messer and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A democratic republic depends upon two unassailable truths: Freedom can only exist (1) where the laws of God are considered absolute and (2) where the majority believe that God, not man and not government, created men and women equal. This book is founded on the principle that only truth can make us free and that the Holy Bible is the foundation of our freedom. This book explores law and presents what is necessary to maintain our liberty. I seek to show that without adherence to absolute truth and absolute law, freedom cannot exist. If we want agency, we must choose good over evil. If we want freedom, we must obey the laws of freedom. If we want liberty, we must align our social laws with the laws of God. In Washington D.C. stands a statue with the following words inscribed on the base: 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' There is no shortcut to freedom, to agency, or to liberty. No matter what storm clouds gather without, if we want liberty, we must obey the laws of liberty within. Our liberty was threatened when the British invaded the colonies; our liberty was threatened when the first slave ship was permitted to unload its human misery on American soil; our liberty was threatened when the South seceded from the union; our liberty was threatened when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, but those threats are but a prelude to the threats that threaten our liberty today. Before, the menace came from without; today, the threat to our liberty comes from within.Christianity is under attack. Religious freedom is under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights are under attack. Racism is used as a weapon by the left to deliberately divide America. Our borders are left vulnerable. Our economy is threatened. Our justice system is used with impunity for personal vendetta. Rather than truth, our congress ignores rule of law and uses slander and personal attack to impede justice. They put personal power over the voice of the people. The word God is being removed from our Pledge of Allegiance, from our schools, even from our nation. We are apologizing for our liberty, our language, our religion, our moral values, our standards, our laws, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our belief in God, our way of life, and even for our blessings. News sources, which once were standards of freedom of speech, are now mere propaganda machines governed by the left to generate fake news, slanted facts, and orchestrated slander against anyone who disagrees with their liberal policies. Some want to remove our flag from its standard, "In God we trust" from our coins, and "Under God" from our Pledge of Allegiance. They want to remove crosses, bibles, prayers, and all other Christian symbols, icons, ceremonies, and sacraments from public eyes as if Christ, the author of our liberty, were something to be ashamed of. I suppose that all Christians, at some point, must answer the question, 'Why am I a Christian?' For me it is a love of truth and a love of freedom. All I want said of me is that I loved freedom, agency, and liberty more than I loved life; and that I loved truth and the fountain of truth more than I loved the philosophies of men, more than I loved the world, and more than I loved myself. Ronald Keith Messer

Download or read book The Cost of My Freedom written by Apostle Dr Samuel Fowler and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of freedom, we think of a life that benefits from the quality or state of being free. There is the idea of having no constraints in the choices that we make. Freedom speaks to the fact that one is liberated from whatever previously held him captive. There is a lot being said these days about human rights, which include things such as Freedom of speech, Freedom of assembly, Freedom of worship etc. Despite all of the efforts made by individuals and world organizations, there are still many nations and perhaps billions of individuals who do not enjoy what one would call this basic freedom. As you read this book, there are many people who are fighting for their freedom because there are those who want to rob them of their rights; and so, what we see being experienced in this world is the sad realization that there is no real freedom outside of Jesus Christ. In The Cost of My Freedom, Samuel Fowler addresses the issues that faced the human race because of the act of disobedience in the Garden of Eden, which placed us all in a state of bondage, and how Jesus came and set us free through His death and resurrection. He also dealt with what we would face when we form a real relationship with Christ, and how He will fulfill his promise, never to leave us alone. You will learn about: Forgiveness Freedom from Paradise The impact of a relationship with Christ Gathering storm clouds Deceit, Power and Imprisonment As you read you will be encouraged to trust Christ for a freedom that will last; a freedom that Christ paid for on your behalf. "If the son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed" (John 8: 36)

Download or read book The Cost of Freedom written by Jaimie Oliver Garande and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a man isn't free, he is a mere shadow of his true self. He cowers in the face of adversity, accomplishes little of significance in his life, and contents himself with acquiring a few trinkets during his time on the earth. He endures the drudgery of his life, hating himself more and more with each passing day, knowing deep down that there has to be more to life than this depressing cycle."The concept of freedom, whether spiritual, financial, political or emotional is so critical that it is impossible to overemphasize its importance. We are all born with an innate awareness that captivity is something foreign and unwelcome, and something that should be resisted. But this awareness on its own isn't enough. Our Creator paid the ultimate price to purchase our freedom, but to be truly free is going to require enormous amounts of resolve and determination on our parts to then enforce our rights to every conceivable form of liberty.That's what this book is all about. Reminding you of the cost you will have to personally pay to experience freedom in every area you need it. There are only two choices available to all of us. Either pay the price and go free, or wallow in captivity for the rest of your life. One simple decision can transform your life. Will you make it?

Download or read book Galatians written by Thomas J. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each study in the God's Word for Today series provides an in-depth exploration of a book of the Bible. Each session includes: background information on the book of the Bible, its author, audience, occasion, and purpose; learning experiences that promote exciting and challenging discussions; notes for leaders that answer questions, suggest a learning process, and provide additional information; discussion starters that help participants apply God's Word to their daily lives. (13 sessions) Many people today equate freedom with "personal choice" or "do your own thing" without regard for God's Word. With Christian freedom comes responsibility - to God and for others. Leaders guide is included.

Download or read book Religious Freedom Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Liberty in the Things of God written by Robert Louis Wilken and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build. Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how "the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day."

Download or read book Religion Freedom of Thought written by Perry Miller and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cost of True Freedom written by L. Wayne and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An individual with free will has an inherited amount of freedom. We have the freedom to do as we wish and pursue our ambitions in what ever way they lead. There is a down side to our freedoms. For with these freedoms, we have been given by our Creator, there comes a responsibility to use these wonderful attributes in a good and positive way. If they are not used properly we descend into chaos and become a dysfunctional world. Our world and our way of life hang in the balance. Our freedoms have not been respected and acted upon in a proper manner. Freedom requires responsibility not only personally but nationally.

Download or read book The Battle for China s Spirit written by Sarah Cook and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle for China’s Spirit is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, focusing on seven major religious groups in China that together account for over 350 million believers: Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Tibetan Buddhism, and Falun Gong. The study examines the evolution of the Communist Party’s policies of religious control, how they are applied differently to diverse faith communities, and how citizens are responding to these policies. The study—which draws on hundreds of official documents and interviews with religious leaders, lay believers, and scholars—finds that Chinese government controls over religion have intensified since November 2012, seeping into new areas of daily life. Yet millions of religious believers defy official restrictions or engage in some form of direct protest, at times scoring significant victories. The report explores how these dynamics affect China’s overall social, political, and economic environment, while offering recommendations to both the Chinese government and international actors for how to increase the space for peaceful religious practice in a country where spirituality has been deeply embedded in its culture for millennia.