Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression (Garcia Hector A.)(Paperback)

Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression (Garcia Hector A.)(Paperback)

This book uses evolutionary psychology as a lens to explain religious violence and oppression. The author, a clinical psychologist, examines religious scriptures, rituals, and canon law, highlighting the many ways in which our evolutionary legacy has shaped the development of religion and continues

The Power of One (Courtenay Bryce)(Paperback)

'The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.'-The New York Times 'Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence-'the

The Ikigai Journey: A Practical Guide to Finding Happiness and Purpose the Japanese Way (Garcia Hector)(Pevná vazba)

In The Ikigai Journey, authors Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles take their international bestseller Ikigai: the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life a step further by showing you how to find your own ikigai through practical exercises, such as employing new habits and stepping outside your

God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today? - Wrestling honestly with the Old Testament (Paynter Helen)(Paperback / softback)

Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (Berman Morris)(Paperback)

Presents an analysis of the 'nomadic' consciousness of our ancestors, and the forces --religious and political --that overwhelmed it during the Neolithic era, and considers its revival in the twentieth

Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities (Oakes Len)(Paperback)

New religious movements--or so-called cults--continue to attract and mystify us. While mainstream America views cults as an insidious mix of apocalyptic beliefs, science fiction, and paranoia, with new vehicles such as the World Wide Web, they are becoming even more influential as the millennium

Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism (Eliade Mircea)(Paperback)

Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes

Religion and International Security (Marsden Lee)(Paperback)

Religious violence is on the rise globally. Hardly a day passes without news of a vicious attack being carried out in the name of religion. Religion can, of course, bring security to many but its perversion leads to insecurity for all. Why is this? How and why do so many claim to act on God's

Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Kearney Richard)(Paperback)

Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (James William)(Paperback)

Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized religions, were the backbone of the world's

Gods of Jade and Shadow (Moreno-Garcia Silvia)(Paperback / softback)

The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. A vivid, wildly imaginative historical fantasy for fans of Katherine Arden and Naomi Novik

A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings--on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality--reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes 'A Confession, ' 'Religion and Morality, ' 'What Is Religion, and of What

False God of Rome (Fabbri Robert)(Paperback)

Vespasian's mission will lead to violence, mayhem, and theft--and in the end, to a betrayal so great it will echo through the agesVespasian is serving as a military officer on the outskirts of the Roman Empire, suppressing local troubles and defending the Roman way. But political events in

Dark God: Cruelty, Sex, and Violence in the Old Testament (Rmer Thomas)(Paperback)

The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Kalyvas Stathis)(Paperback)

By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective

Gods of Jade and Shadow (Moreno-Garcia Silvia)(Paperback)

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. 'A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and

Database Systems: Pearson New International Edition - The Complete Book (Garcia-Molina Hector)(Paperback / softback)

Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia (Harsono Andreas)(Paperback)

Jakarta based Andreas Harsono is one of the most knowledgeable, experienced, high-profile and courageous of reporters and commentators on contemporary Indonesian society. Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia is the result of Harsono's fifteen year project

The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture (Ray Darrel W.)(Paperback)

Dr. Darrel Ray, psychologist and lifelong student of religion, discusses religious infection from the inside out. How does guilt play into religious infection? Why is sexual control so important to so many religions? What causes the anxiety and neuroticism around death and dying? How does religion

On Violence (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

Political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker Hannah Arendt's On Violence is an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. The public revulsion against violence and nonviolent philosophies continues to diminish in the

Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power (Russo Ann)(Paperback)

Explores accountability as a framework for building movements to transform systemic oppression and violence What does it take to build communities to stand up to injustice and create social change? How do we work together to transform, without reproducing, systems of violence and oppression?In an

Mass Psychology (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback / softback)

Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. This title explores the notion of

The Spaces of Violence (Giles James)(Paperback)

Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks's

Ikigai:The Japanese secret to a long and happy life - Francesc Miralles, Héctor García

2014 offered The life-changing magic of tidying 2016 surrounded uswith hygge In 2017, we’ll discover our ikigai… Ikigai – theJapanese secret to a long and happy life from the world’s longestliving people. Discover the Japanese secret to a long and happylife with the internationally