Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Religion & Science

By the twentieth century, science had become so important that religious traditions had to respond to it. Emerging religions, still led by a living founder to guide them, responded with a clarity and focus that illuminates other larger, more established religions' understandings of science. The Hare Krishnas, the Unification Church, and Heaven's Gate each found distinct ways to incorporate major findings of modern American science, understanding it as central to their wider theological and social agendas. In tracing the development of these new religious movements' viewpoints on science...

Becoming God's Children: Religion's Infantilizing Process was written, its author says, to alert readers to the role of infantilization in the Judeo-Christian tradition generally and in Christian rite and doctrine particularly. Because religion plays such an important role in so may lives, it is essential to understand the underlying appeal and significance of religious doctrines.

To that end, Becoming God's Children offers the reader an in-depth account of human neuropsychological development, while unearthing the Judeo-Christian tradition's explicitly...

Religion and science worked hand-in-hand thousands of years ago. "Laughing at the Devil: One Man's Religious Discoveries" reveals some of the forgotten thoughts of those times.

David O'Neil was a child when his mother ran away to a fundamentalist Catholic cult with him and his sisters. The adventure profoundly affected his life, and subconsciously pushed him to study the roots of Western religion.

Within "Laughing at the Devil" some of our long-lost knowledge is rediscovered. The basis of our historic pagan beliefs is illuminated, and their continuing influence is touched upon....

"Evolution, Creationism, and Intelligent Design" offers a comprehensive, unbiased history of this controversial issue, as well as a balanced presentation of the arguments central to a debate that remains one of the most divisive in American society. Centered around the importance of the issue to education in both the sciences and humanities, the book's chief concern is the relevance of the debate to America's public schools.

Beginning with an overview of the topic and its history, the book goes on to investigate Darwinism and the neo-Darwinian revolution as well as the applications of...