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  To the Best of Our Knowledge: Religion 2.0, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min

  In this hour, Clark Strand is the author of How to Believe in God, and a contributing editor at Tricycle: A Buddhist Review. He tells Jim Fleming that the United States is unusual among developed nations for its continued religiosity, even while individual Americans increasingly decline to affiliate with any particular religious group, but still consider themselves spiritual people. Next, Brad Warner is a Japanese monster movie marketer, a blogger, a Zen Buddhist Master and plays bass in a punk band. His book is Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate. Warner tells Steve Paulson how he found himself a Buddhist at the end of a truly atrocious year and how he values the sacredness in everyday life.Then, James Carse is the author of The Religious Case Against Belief. He talks with Steve Paulson about the definition of religion and argues that one can be a religious person without believing in God. You can read Steve's interview with Carse at Salon.com. After that, Tsultrim Allione founded Tara Mandala, a retreat in Colorado, where she teaches students based on her Buddhist training in Tibet. She is also the author of Feeding Your Demons. Allione tells Anne Strainchamps about the practice of feeding one's demons and how it relates to Western therapeutic techniques.And finally, David Plotz is the editor of Slate Magazine.com and the author of Good Book. He tells Jim Fleming why he decided to read the entire Old Testament, and how the experience has changed his life. [Broadcast Date: July 30, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/100730/rt_tbon_100730_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Politics and Religion: A Catholic's Guide to Faith and Public Life, Hörbuch, Digital, 301min

  What is the relationship between our faith and public life?Join top moral theologian and award-winning professor Thomas Massaro, S.J., in exploring the fascinating intersection of personal faith and our work, family, and political lives.Most of the Founding Fathers seemed to assume that private religiosity could be sealed off neatly from the institutions and affairs of state, but history has demonstrated otherwise. Many of the crucial reforms our nation has undergone, from the abolition of slavery to the achievement of civil rights for all, have been inspired by religious sentiment and activism.This series offers a wide perspective on the role of religion in our public life. You will examine the challenge of secularization, the workings of civil society, and the pattern of thought called civil religion. You'll explore precisely how religious voices make themselves heard in the public arena. You will also consider controversial issues such as whether America is actually experiencing a culture war and the possible merits of faith-based initiatives for the provision of public social services.You will come away with an appreciation of the complex relationships among public theology, American culture, and a philosophy of government that emphasizes the pursuit of the common good. By surveying the major features of the church-state landscape today, you will assess the potential for constructive engagement of faith and public life in the years ahead.This course is part of the Learn25 collection and includes a free PDF study guide.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Massaro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/nykm/000166/bk_nykm_000166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 607min

  Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are today seen as inseparable. But when Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and a born-again Christian, won the presidency in 1976, he owed his victory in part to American evangelicals, who responded to his open religiosity and his rejection of the moral bankruptcy of the Nixon Administration. Carter, running as a representative of the New South, articulated a progressive strand of American Christianity that championed liberal ideals, racial equality, and social justice - one that has almost been forgotten since. In Redeemer, acclaimed religious historian Randall Balmer reveals how the rise and fall of Jimmy Carter’s political fortunes mirrored the transformation of American religious politics. From his beginnings as a humble peanut farmer to the galvanizing politician who rode a reenergized religious movement into the White House, Carter’s life and career mark him as the last great figure in America’s long and venerable history of progressive evangelicalism. Although he stumbled early in his career - courting segregationists during his second campaign for Georgia governor - Carter’s run for president marked a return to the progressive principles of his faith and helped reenergize the evangelical movement. Responding to his message of racial justice, women’s rights, and concern for the plight of the poor, evangelicals across the country helped propel Carter to office. Yet four years later, those very same voters abandoned him for Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party. Carter’s defeat signaled the eclipse of progressive evangelicalism and the rise of the Religious Right, which popularized a dramatically different understanding of the faith, one rooted in nationalism, individualism, and free-market capitalism. An illuminating biography of our 39th president, Redeemer presents Jimmy Carter as the last great standard-bearer of an important strand of American Christianity, and provides an orig ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Lurie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017460/bk_adbl_017460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza, Hörbuch, Digital, 725min

  Experience the evolution of all of Jewish life during the 10 critical centuries from its rabbinic foundations in late antiquity until the dawn of modernity in the 17th century. During this time, Judaism was forever affected by its encounters with the surrounding social, economic, political, and intellectual environments of both medieval Islam and Christendom. As a result of those encounters, new pathways of philosophical inquiry and religious spirituality would be formed. The Hebrew language would find new ways of artistic expression. And the role of Jews in the life of the surrounding community would be changed forever, sometimes even increased, as was the paradoxical case in Italy, by the very ghettoization meant to keep them isolated. These 24 insightful lectures give you a unique perspective from which to examine the three major Western religions as they interact over time, and noting especially their ability or inability to tolerate and even appreciate the "other", as viewed from the vantage point of the Jewish minority. They also feature the emergence of two distinct intellectual threads: the rise of medieval Jewish philosophy and the appearance of Jewish mysticism and piety as the faith's primary expressions of religiosity. These lectures span an enormous disciplinary range, moving back and forth among history, philosophy, religion, and art. No previous familiarity with Jewish, Islamic, or Christian history is necessary to enjoy this broad and detailed examination of the leading Jewish communities of the period, their political and economic structures, the social relations between Jews and non-Jews, and Jewish cultural and intellectual achievements in a premodern world dominated by two other faiths. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: David B. Ruderman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000040/bk_tcco_000040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  God Is Alive and Well: The Future of Religion in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min

  Popular books such as The God Delusion have dismissed religion as a delusional artifact of evolution and ancient superstitions. But should millions of Americans' statements of belief and their behavior be dismissed that quickly? The pattern of religious influence in American society suggests mass consequence rather than mass delusion. In God Is Alive and Well, Frank Newport, Gallup's Editor-in-Chief, provides a new evidence-based analysis of Americans' religious beliefs and practices - and bold predictions about religion's future in the U.S. Most Americans are at least marginally religious, significantly more so than in most developed nations around the world. The majority of Americans believe in God and say that religion is important in their daily lives. And Americans routinely participate in religious rituals. Levels of religious consciousness are not distributed equally. Systematic patterns of differences in religion occur with surprising regularity. An American's religiosity is very much bound up with social position and geographic space. There is an important interplay between religion and life status factors - age, gender, marital status, having children - and with achieved status distinctions - class, education, income. Those who are most religious are demonstrably different across a wide spectrum of outcomes from those who are not. These include lifestyle choices, social participation, ideology, partisanship, and views on political and social issues. Religion can be the driver for highly disruptive social behaviors, up to and including the taking of human life. Unlike citizens of any other country in the world, Americans group themselves into hundreds of distinct micro religious groups and denominations. These groups are constantly evolving, splitting like amoeba to form new groups. The most common pattern today is the development of the "no name" religious group, consisting of Americans who worship only under ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Grupper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008232/bk_brll_008232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Against the Day: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 3212min

  Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred. The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx. "As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. "Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction. "Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck." —Thomas Pynchon ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000323/bk_tant_000323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Recovering the Seed: How to Live a Wholehearted Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 258min

  Recovering the Seed invites the listener to explore a landscape where healthy human connection and addiction are opposing forces. Tribalism, prejudice, discrimination, shame, isolation, and right-and-wrong thinking are the tenants fueling addiction. A common view of addiction has focused on the obsessive and compulsive use of drugs and alcohol, which is outdated and intrinsically inaccurate. Addiction is a bio-psycho-social problem that includes the obsessive and compulsive entanglement with sex, work, food, money, religiosity, gambling, pornography, romantic love, gaming, or social media. The goal is to change the way we feel, and sometimes not to feel anything at all. The more we isolate and disconnect, the more the problem grows. The more we blame other people to avoid responsibility, the more the problem grows. A solution lies in our ability to become honest, vulnerable, and empathic human beings. When we take accountability for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, we can address the shame-based victim narrative that boils beneath the surface. When we become accountable, we become capable of transcending the victim stance making room for personal empowerment and choice. Recovering the Seed sends a clear message that "we are not broken" but struggling to navigate a culture often based in fear of accountability that thrives on projecting our problems onto others. Recovering the Seed instructs the listener on how the forces of confirmation bias, learned helplessness, and the victim narrative have created a personal story which perpetuates disconnection. Paul Stiles Randak, a marriage and family therapist, shares his experience and practical solutions so the listener can learn to live a wholehearted life, while creating vulnerable, compassionate, and empowered relationships. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Stiles Randak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/110916/bk_acx0_110916_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Effects of Decision-Making Styles on Consumers Perceptions

  The Effects of Decision-Making Styles on Consumers Perceptions ab 48.99 € als Taschenbuch: The Effects of Decision-Making Styles on Consumers Perceptions: The Moderating Effects of Religiosity and Type of Products. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaftswissenschaft,

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  Crusading and Masculinities (eBook, PDF)

  This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading and masculinity, focusing on the varied ways in which the symbiotic relationship between the two was made manifest in a range of medieval settings and sources, and to what ends. Ideas about masculinity formed an inherent part of the mindset of societies in which crusading happened, and of the conceptual framework informing both those who recorded the events and those who participated. Examination and interrogation of these ideas enables a better contextualised analysis of how those events were experienced, comprehended and portrayed. The collection is structured around five themes: sources and models; contrasting masculinities; emasculation and transgression; masculinity and religiosity and kingship and chivalry. By incorporating masculinity within their analysis of the crusades and of crusaders the contributors demonstrate how such approaches greatly enhance our understanding of crusading as an ideal, an institution and an experience. Individual essays consider western campaigns to the Middle East and Islamic responses; events and sources from the Iberian peninsula and Prussia are also interrogated and re-examined, thus enabling cross-cultural comparison of the meanings attached to medieval manhood. The collection also highlights the value of employing gender as a vital means of assessing relationships between different groups of men, whose values and standards of behaviour were socially and culturally constructed in distinct ways.

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  Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

  Cutting-edge and insightful discussions of Latin American literature and culture In the newly revised second edition of A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Sara Castro-Klaren delivers an eclectic and revealing set of discussions on Latin American culture and literature by scholars at the cutting edge of their respective fields. The included essays--whether they're written from the perspective of historiography, affect theory, decolonial approaches, or human rights--introduce readers to topics like gaucho literature, postcolonial writing in the Andes, and baroque art while pointing to future work on the issues raised. This work engages with anthropology, history, individual memory, testimonio, and environmental studies. It also explores: * A thorough introduction to topics of coloniality, including the mapping of the pre-Columbian Americas and colonial religiosity * Comprehensive explorations of the emergence of national communities in New Imperial coordinates, including discussions of the Muisca and Mayan cultures * Practical discussions of global and local perspectives in Latin American literature, including explorations of Latin American photography and cultural modalities and cross-cultural connections * In-depth examinations of uncharted topics in Latin American literature and culture, including discussions of femicide and feminist performances and eco-perspectives Perfect for students in undergraduate and graduate courses tackling Latin American literature and culture topics, A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Second Edition will also earn a place in the libraries of members of the general public and PhD students interested in Latin American literature and culture.

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