Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies: New Resources - Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies

In this fourth edition, Meilaender updates much of the data referenced in the book and responds directly to recent developments, such as the CRISPR/Cas9 method of gene editing, with circumspect writing and an ability to address the nuances of each issue while maintaining strong and clearly stated moral convictions.

This reference offers reliable knowledge about women's diverse faith practices throughout history and prehistory, and across cultures. * Offers nearly 300 reference articles by international scholars of religion, women, and history * Provides an overview of the religious experiences of women across time, faiths, and cultures

This book draws attention to the threat to effective government that proposed expansions to religious accommodation laws can create.

Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears--which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears--this book offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives.

The author challenges several subtle yet problematic assumptions about authors, books, and publication at work in early Christian studies.

Through the prisms of behavioral neurology and cognitive neuroscience, the author brilliantly accounts for the design and workings of the action-oriented brain in synchronicity with the body in the natural world, and he shows how physical intelligence is inherent in all of us--and always in problem-solving mode.

This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible.

Through her evocative, intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, the author illuminates the many ways silence is more complex than any absolute, and how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society.

In this book, the author identifies how the shift from modal to "postmodal" conceptual tools in recent years has affected the metaphysics of science and mathematics.

John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the titles question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past.

Drawing on philosophy, empirical psychology, and evolutionary theory, this book explores how and why human beings have constructed moral requirements to be binding even when they are impossible to fulfill.

Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, the author delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.