On The Claims Of The So Called Revealed Religion

Author : James R. Lewis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions written by James R. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The macabre mass suicide by adherents of the Heaven's Gate Cult in 1997 was shocking and difficult to comprehend for most outsiders. Their bizarre mindset, which mixed New Age religion with belief in extraterrestrial visitation, struck many as unique. In fact, as the contributors to this intriguing study show, the belief in alien contact has had religious overtones since the first purported sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in 1947. Moreover, the religious dimensions of the UFO phenomenon may be the key to understanding the widespread appeal of this modern craze. An expert in new religions, Professor James Lewis has here brought together twenty insightful articles that cover the many variations of UFO-based religions. What the contributors demonstrate is that there are persistent and salient themes underlying the diversity of beliefs centered on the UFO phenomenon. Hearkening back to theosophy, many groups have interpreted UFO sightings and alleged contacts as attempts by alien ambassadors from a more advanced civilization to bring spiritual enlightenment to Earth, where humanity is seen to be floundering in ignorance. The extraterrestrial message is usually channeled through a charismatic human leader, who then mobilizes a group around this New Age "revelation." The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions discusses the histories and beliefs of prominent UFO-based sects; looks at group dynamics and other sociological factors; and presents selections from the unusual literature of the various groups. This revealing and disturbing study shows that there is much more to the UFO phenomenon than simple curiosity about the possibility of life on other planets.

Author : Religion
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revealed Religion; Its Claims on the Intellect ... written by Religion and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nassif Isaac
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ISBN 13 : 9781901958034
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shortcomings of the So-called Revealed Religions written by Nassif Isaac and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Butler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature written by Joseph Butler and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature [&c.]; and select sermons written by Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Butler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are Added Two Brief Dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue written by Joseph Butler and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Butler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are Added Two Brief Dissertations I. On Personal Identity II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham at the Primary Visitation, in the Year MDCCLI. New Ed., Corr. With a Preface Giving Some Account of the Character and Writings of the Author, by Samuel Halifax written by Joseph Butler and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Butler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature ... A new edition written by Joseph Butler and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Butler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, Etc written by Joseph Butler and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heinrich Meier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627585X
Total Pages : 211 pages
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Download or read book Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion written by Heinrich Meier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heinrich Meier’s guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion. Philosophy must rationally justify and politically defend its free and unreserved questioning, and, in doing so, turns decisively to political philosophy. In the first of three chapters, Meier determines four intertwined moments constituting the concept of political philosophy as an articulated and internally dynamic whole. The following two chapters develop the concept through the interpretation of two masterpieces of political philosophy that have occupied Meier’s attention for more than thirty years: Leo Strauss’s Thoughts on Machiavelli and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract. Meier provides a detailed investigation of Thoughts on Machiavelli, with an appendix containing Strauss’s original manuscript headings for each of his paragraphs. Linking the problem of Socrates (the origin of political philosophy) with the problem of Machiavelli (the beginning of modern political philosophy), while placing between them the political and theological claims opposed to philosophy, Strauss’s most complex and controversial book proves to be, as Meier shows, the most astonishing treatise on the challenge of revealed religion. The final chapter, which offers a new interpretation of the Social Contract, demonstrates that Rousseau’s most famous work can be adequately understood only as a coherent political-philosophic response to theocracy in all its forms.