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A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack, The Looming Tower. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church...
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A sociologist’s look at the continuing importance of religion and the supernatural in the modern world, “cleverly expounded [and] enhanced by wit” (Kirkus Reviews). Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the social nature of knowledge and its effect on religious belief. Using five signs evident in ordinary life—order, play, hope,...
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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro argues that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God's image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God's world. We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, peace, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built America,...
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The French Sociologist Émile Durkheim is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology. Principle to the work of Durkheim was his concern with regard to how modernity was effecting traditional social and religious institutions, more specifically with how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in an era in which new social institutions have come into being. One of his principles works, "The...
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If, as Kant claimed, we have failed to prove the existence of a material world external to ourselves, how can we possibly prove the existence of an immaterial God? In this brief exposition Dr. Winthrop links and solves both problems, starting with the meaning of existence itself. Arguing from systems theory, he shows that both God and the World are marked by a common testable signature of existence, X. Because X is corroborated empirically, it follows...
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The need to reimagine religion and belief is precipitated by their greater visibility in public life. Meanwhile, social policy responses often see them from a problem-based, rather than an asset-based, approach. However, with growing diversity of religion and belief in every sector comes the potential for new dialogues across previously impermeable policy and disciplinary silos. This volume brings together leading international authors to critically...
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I wrote this book to explain how easily someone can get trapped in a controlling group or relationship. This book is not about religion, it is about the organizational structure and emotional manipulation. It is about finding yourself after losing yourself. Isabelle was in university when she entered a Christian group called University Bible Fellowship. During the following years, she acquired her experience on cults while spending three years in...
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The Religious Studies Edition Contains the same Social Science as the Secular edition, but additionally, it associates all 55 Meme Laws with either Historical or Teaching Scriptures from as distant as 1500 B.C. Taken from Christian and Jewish scripture; we also tap Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism. Also throughout the book highlights many ways that Meme Law affects local congregations and denominational ministries and creates clericalism and child abuse....
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The Greening of Protestant Thought traces the increasing influence of environmentalism on American Protestantism since the first Earth Day, which took place in 1970. Robert Booth Fowler explores the extent to which ecological concerns permeate Protestant thought and examines contemporary controversies within and between mainline and fundamentalist Protestantism over the Bible's teachings about the environment. Fowler explores the historical roots...
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In this 1912 classic, a founder of modern sociology seeks the enduring source of human social identity. Émile Durkheim presents a remarkably accessible examination of animism, naturism, totemism, myth, and ritual. His intriguing views and ultimate conclusion-that the source of religion and morality lies in collective consciousness, rather than in individual minds-remains a topic of debate among sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers,...
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Follow the science is a phrase we often hear these days. All too often it means "listen to anything coming from the scientific community that supports my position but ignore anything which does not." During my lifetime, I have seen a number of changes in many things that were once "known" to be true. For instance, when I was in grade school, it was a commonly believed "fact" that lemmings committed suicide periodically by jumping off a cliff into...
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Western society has never been more interested in interiority. Indeed, it seems more and more people are deliberately looking inward-toward the mind, the body, or both. Michal Pagis's Inward focuses on one increasingly popular channel for the introverted gaze: vipassana meditation, which has spread from Burma to more than forty countries and counting. Lacing her account with vivid anecdotes and personal stories, Pagis turns our attention not only...
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Racial strife is tearing communities apart across the United States, but many of us don't know how to start healing the divide.
NBA Diversity Consultant David Ireland offers an answer.
In One in Christ, Dr. Ireland draws on years of experience pastoring and counseling a congregation of over 9,000 members from more than 70 nations to equip you with practical skills for racial reconciliation.
One in Christ directs you to the great reconciler,...
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As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman is situated within national debates about Britishness, the death of multiculturalism and global concerns over international terrorism. Analysing the relevance of class, citizenship status, and regional differences, Veiled threats...
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This book describes in detail the bipolartiy of our religions. Each of our religions has a stellar system of morality at one pole, and at the other, recommended violence and torture of those people who do not share that particular mythology. The deleterious influence this religious intolerance then has on our democracy is illuminated.
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Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's spiritual and moral well-being. But does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization lead to moral decay? Sociologist Hans Joas argues that...
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What do you do when an entire civilization is crumbling around you?
You do everything. This is a book about how to get started.
The Left's culture war threatens America's foundation and its very civilization, warns Esolen in his brand new book, Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture. They will tell you that babies in the womb are fetuses, that gender is a social construct, and that the backbone of society is government not the community....
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Muslim Women In Western Society is a Book which demonstrates the struggle and challenges that a Muslim woman faces on day to day basis, which feels the need to clarify issues and solutions. Throughout her travels across European countries during holidays or business trips as well as from being a resident in the UK, Khadija has resumed her various interactions (both good and bad) with peoples from different cultures. This book is full of motivational...
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It has been my great honor to serve more than thirty years as a trusted counselor, coach, and consultant for a wide socio-economic spectrum of students, staff, administrators, and community members who live and work in multi-cultural settings. A few common threads that have surfaced in my interactions have been that of:
(1) An individual coming to me for assistance in dealing with a complex situation that is discriminatory in nature.
(2) Individuals...
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