The Origin and Growth of Religion, Paperback - Wilhelm Schmidt

Reducere. Back in print after more than four decades, The Origin and Growth of Religion is a much-sought-after volume, as it provides a glimpse into philosop...

In this second lecture extracted from Sayce's Origin and Growth of Religion, the renowned Assyriologist specifically considers the Babylonian deity...

Reducere. DescriptionContents: Definitions of Religion; Religious Cult of the Totemic People; Magic and Fetishism; Hero Cult and Mythology; Sacred Symbols; T...

Explores some of the themes and ideas in Steiner's work as they came about in the course of his life. The second of two volumes.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Friedrich GentzEditor: Peter KoslowskiThe Origin and Principles of the American Revolution is perhaps one of the most impor...

Reducere. Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil. Or more simply known as Theodicy, is a philosophical work by ...

This book uses history and archaeology to examine the origins of major monotheistic religions: describing the contexts of times, places and societi...

This is a survey of the history of Taoism from approximately the third century B.C. to the fourteenth century A.D. For many years, it was customary...

IAU S308 marks the centenary of the birth of the Russian cosmologist Yakov B. Zeldovich, whose seminal work paved the way towards understanding the...

Reducere. Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought to anthropology and history; namely, an analysis ...

Reducere. DescriptionDe origine actibusque Getarum (The Origin and Deeds of the Gothsor the Getica, written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly after 551...

"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, fo...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Joseph Butler's The Analogy of Religion (1736) is a classic defence of Christian belief against many well-known objections. This edition includes a...

Publisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 298Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 2...

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Reducere. A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the edito...

Reducere. Understanding other religions is a great way to bridge the gap between those different cultures and understand more about them. More often than not...

Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as ...

Reducere. Common Sense is the timeless classic that inspired the Thirteen Colonies to fight for and declare their independence from Great Britain in the summ...

Publisher: Green Magic PublishingAuthor(s): Elisa GrayNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 19Cover type: Paperback / s...

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This book is a culmination of life experiences, scientific facts, and observations that raise critical questions and dispel the notion that you mus...

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An important part of philosophy is concerned with religious questions. What is the meaning of life, and how might religious faith or doubt impact s...

DescriptionWhy do people study religion? How have they studied it in the past? How do we study religion today? Is the academic study of religion th...

Reducere. Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysic...

Engage students with the 'Philosophy of Religion' content for OCR A Level Religious Studies; build their knowledge, deepen their understanding and ...

The contributors to Beyond Man reckon with the colonial and racial implications of the philosophy of religion's history by staging a conversation b...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Paul MarionIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Color including Color PhotographsNumbe...

Lyndsay Farrall's 1969 doctoral dissertation reveals the origins and operations of the "biometric school" of eugenics, which developed in London be...

For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of ...

Presses contemporary philosophy of religion toward a new modes of thinking about God

Description A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion introduces the key concepts and theories from religious studies that are necessary for...

The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson's intellectual achievement is still bei...

Reducere. Is the emergence of life on Earth the result of a single chance event or combination of lucky accidents, or is it the outcome of biochemical forces...

Reducere. The story of the life of Jesus Christ was based on a series of much older Christ Myths that began with the Neolithic Green Man who was born to a vi...