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Religious Education: Perspectives, Teaching Strategies and Challenges

Religion and Society, Religion, Humanities
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Religious Education: Perspectives, Teaching Strategies and Challenges attempts to conceptualize the depth and complexity of religious education through Michael Polanyi’s notions of personal knowledge and the tacit dimension of knowledge. In Israel, some non-religious Jewish families enroll their children in kindergartens of the state religious education system, even though they do not belong to the…
The Culture of our Thinking in Relation to Spirituality

Religion and Spirituality, Religion, Humanities
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This book explores the culture of our thinking in relation to spirituality. It focuses largely on psychological science and the problems faced by scientists as they attempt to understand spirituality in action. The book attempts to untangle the concept of spirituality from various cultural attachments and it considers the way different worldviews and different philosophical…
An Examination of Religiosity: Influences, Perspectives and Health Implications

Religion and Spirituality, Religion, Humanities
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By the last 3 decades, consistent scientific research has proved that the spiritual-religious dimension is strongly related to human health. Since then, this field and its applications are progressively growing and developing, through: psycho-neuro-immunological-endocrine research; curricular disciplines on medical schools; the bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach as standard for patient-centered integrative healthcare; complementary therapies derived from spiritual traditions…
Women in Islamic Societies: A Literature Review of Social Science Scholarship

Religion and Society, Religion, Humanities
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Half a billion Muslim women inhabit some 45 Muslim-majority countries, and another 30 or more countries have significant Muslim minorities, including, increasingly, countries in the developed West. This book provides a literature review of recent empirical social science scholarship that addresses the actualities of women’s lives in Muslim societies across multiple geographic regions. This book…
Religion and Health: The Perspective of Happy Science Medicine

Health Psychology Research Focus, Religion, Humanities
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Historically, religion and medicine have been strongly connected. In more recent decades, various academics can be viewed as part of a larger movement to investigate the effects of religion on health in the field of complementary and alternative medicine. Such research is ongoing, but to date, the mechanisms underlying the association between religion and health…
Missionary Sheroes of the 19th to 21st Centuries

Religion and Society, Christianity, Religion, Humanities
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Missionary women are no strangers to the ecstasies, horrors, and humor of the human condition. June M. Dunn, RN-MSN was the 20th-century missionary in Haiti, Honduras, Guam, Russia, Saigon, Saipan, and Thailand. Her American family upbringing, science-based healthcare training, and humanistic effort allowed her to be an exemplary teacher and caregiver to the poverty-stricken. Her…
Religiosity: Psychological Perspectives, Individual Differences and Health Benefits

Religion and Spirituality, Religion, Humanities
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This book reviews several psychological perspectives of religiosity. It studies individual differences and health benefits of religiosity as well. Chapter One focuses on religious conversion and provides a review of psychological concepts related to religious conversion and defines religious conversion as a positive change in religious beliefs including significant changes in spiritual and personal life.…
True Islam, Jihad, and Terrorism: The Science of Islamic Foreign Policy

Religion and Spirituality, Terrorism, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Islam, Religion, Humanities
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After the rise of the Islamic State of Syria and Levant (ISIL), the world has been debating over an old issue, characterized by some as the “clash of civilizations”. Jihād, the Arabic term for “struggle”, was the target and “Islamic terrorism” and “Islamic fascism” became the popularized terms of the post-9/11 era. The following discourse…
Islam: Global Issues, Challenges and Perspectives of the 21st Century

Religion and Spirituality, Islam, Religion, Humanities
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This book reviews global issues, challenges and perspectives of the 21st century. Chapter One focuses on recent history and contemporary political issues to explain the ongoing conflicts in Iraq. Chapter Two aims to find out the answers on how Islamic economics system will shape the future global economy. Chapter Three discusses Islam and essentialism. Chapter…
Beacon Lights of History. Volume III: Ancient Achievements

Religion and Society, Religion, Humanities
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Beacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902. This collection of John Lord’s lectures spans 6,000 years of European and American history. The first 12 volumes are all Lord’s work; the 13th was completed from his notes and the 14th is follow-ups by other authors. (Imprint: SNOVA)
Beacon Lights of History. Volume II: Jewish Heroes and Prophets

Religion and Society, Religion, Humanities
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Beacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902. This collection of John Lord’s lectures spans 6,000 years of European and American history. The first 12 volumes are all Lord’s work; the 13th was completed from his notes and the 14th is follow-ups by other authors. (Imprint: SNOVA)
Beacon Lights of History. Volume I: The Old Pagan Civilizations

Religion and Society, Religion, Humanities
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Beacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902. This collection of John Lord’s lectures spans 6,000 years of European and American history. The first 12 volumes are all Lord’s work; the 13th was completed from his notes and the 14th is follow-ups by other authors. (Imprint: SNOVA)
Heaven on My Mind: Using the Harvard Grant Study of Adult Development to Explore the Value of the Prospection of Life after Death

Religion and Spirituality, Editor’s Picks, Afterlife and Reincarnation, Religion, Humanities
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Heaven fascinates us, yet we lack any empirical information about it. Why, despite our multiple faith traditions, does Heaven have such positive connotations for us all? Why, despite no tangible evidence, should autobiographies by authors who claim to have visited Heaven, usually through near death experiences, attract literally millions of readers? Why does virtually everyone,…
Buddhism: Practices, Interpretations and Perspectives

Religion and Spirituality, Buddhism, Religion, Humanities
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This book reviews the practices, interpretations and perspectives of Buddhism. Chapter One focuses on the contributions of music in Buddhism. Chapter Two analyzes spirituality and the economy of climate change. Chapter Three explores the use of signs in the Chinese Buddhist context that bears profound significance educationally, epistemologically and soteriologically. Chapter Four explores the future…
Scientific Meditations: Creationism Rightly Understood

Religion and Spirituality, Atheism, Religion, Humanities
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Why would an atheist engineer become a religious believer—a priest, in fact—and after his conversion, how would he understand the physical universe? This book is an attempt to answer that question in detail so as not to avoid the difficult questions involved. The priest’s thoughts are expressed not in a straight forward monograph, but in…
Religion: Past, Present and Future Perspectives

Religion and Spirituality, Religion, Humanities
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Chapter One provides a deeper understanding of Islam and how Muslims cope with illness. Coping is explored providing Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) perspective. The authors of Chapter Two argue that contrary to the use of the Qur’an for spiritual and magical purposes, the wave of commercialization portrayed its practitioners as instruments of evil in the…
Essays on the Philosophical Nexus between Religion and Politics. Volume 1

Religion and Society, Religion, Humanities
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This proposed book consists of 36 chapters written over three years (2014-2017) on the theme of the historical nexus between democracy and religion. It takes a sweeping panoramic cultural and anthropological view on the theme that is in some way connected to the following philosophical conundrums: myth/history, poetical/scientific, political/transcendent, freedom/determinism, ideological/historical, power/justice, law/love, grand narrative/positivistic,…
Catholicism: Rites, History and Social Issues

Religion and Society, Christianity, Religion, Humanities
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Throughout its history, the Roman Catholic Church continues to have a complex and evolving relationship with the political societies and governments of our world. One of the foremost expressions of this relationship is in the form of the teachings and social and political engagements of Catholic bishops and other ordained. Despite the Church’s universalism, these…
Navigating the Storms of Life: Critical Lessons for Christian and Non-Christian Social Workers

Social Issues, Justice and Status, Religion and Society, Social Welfare, Social Policy and Welfare, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Christianity, Religion, Humanities
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In life, people face challenges and storms that come in different forms and fashions. These personal storms vary in scope, size and gravity, and some have short term effects whereas others may have long term effects. Whatever the magnitude of a storm, perhaps the most critical consideration at the end of the day is not…
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

Religion and Society, Religion
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In 1901, William James was appointed as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh. This book is composed of the lectures he gave during that time. (Imprint: SNOVA)
Readings in the 20th Century Genocide of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (Sayfo)

Religion and Society, Religion
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This book, authored by family members who were originated in Mesopotamia, and are members of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, strives to provide a brief historical background on the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, her dogma, her ancient sacred language (Syriac/Aramaic), and persecution including 1915 Genocide (Sayfo) which might also be referred to as…
Essays on the Philosophical Nexus between Religion and Politics. Volume 2

Religion and Society, Religion, Humanities
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This proposed book is a sequel to Volume 1. It has the same title and consists of eighteen additional essays written over four years (2014-2017) on the theme of the historical nexus between religion and politics. This second volume begins where the first ends and its Table of Contents lists essays Nineteen to Thirty-Six. It…
Free to Love: Schema Therapy for Christians

Religion and Society, Religion, Humanities
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Schema therapy is an evidence-based therapy with a proven record of effectiveness in international randomized controlled trials—the gold standard of proof in medicine and psychology. This therapy uses innovative techniques that have helped people with even the most complex and difficult personal problems to change. In Free to Love, schema therapy is brought into a…
Global Shia: A Contemporary Perspective

Religion and Spirituality, Editor’s Picks, Islam, Religion, Humanities
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This book examines the role of Shia Islam in the world today. It covers several regions and nearly two dozen countries from both a contemporary and historical perspective. It deals with various divisions of Shia Islam, but concentrates on the majority sect of Twelver Islam. Through this narrative, Global Shia examines the critical role played…