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The Origin and Evolution of Religion (Routledge Revivals)
By Albert Churchward. 1924
Churchward’s The Origin and Evolution of Religion, first published in 1924, explores the history and development of different religions worldwide,…
from the religious cults of magic and fetishism to contemporary religions such as Christianity and Islam. This text is ideal for students of theology.Guilt: Its Meaning and Significance (Psychology Revivals)
By John G. McKenzie. 1962
It is acknowledged by most students of human behaviour that the idea of guilt is closely connected with that of…
man’s freedom and responsibility. It is a theme of law-court and pulpit, a concern of psychoanalysis and probation officers, a growing pre-occupation of the novelist. Our era has even been described as a ‘guilt-consciousness age’. It comes as a surprise, therefore, to discover that there are so few modern books in which the meaning of guilt is thoroughly explored. In the present volume, originally published in 1962, Dr J.G. McKenzie makes an admirable attempt to fill the gap. He begins by describing and analysing the various senses in which the word ‘guilt’ is used and by making a number of important distinctions. There follows a close psychological study of the origin and development of guilty feelings which is illumined by Dr McKenzie’s interpretation of ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ conscience. The author then turns to the legal, ethical and religious concepts of guilt and examines each with care and insight, always raising and facing the deepest issues for both theory and practice. In the concluding section of the book he deals with the question ‘How can the sense of guilt be dissipated?’ Against the backdrop of depth-psychology and theology he offers a penetrating and provocative understanding of divine forgiveness which plumbs the deeps both of man’s sin and of God’s love. Dr McKenzie writes out of a long lifetime of teaching and of clinical work in psychotherapy. The range of his reading and interests is extraordinarily wide. Through all his writing there shines not only his profound concern for people but his lively and indeed infectious conviction that man is still in the making and that his one true Maker is God.First published in 1966. The author examines the problems which face the teacher of Religious Education at the time of…
widespread doubt. He reviews studies of the formation of religious beliefs and attitudes in the young, and suggest a new strategy for the subject, whereby at each stage of education the teacher has a definite but limited aim, appropriate to the children with whom they have to teach.Natural Religion: The Ultimate Religion of Mankind (Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion)
By Joseph Shaw Bolton. 1923
Driven by the dissatisfaction and turmoil in religion at the time this book was originally published in 1923, the author…
sets out a belief that all people have an inborn religion and investigates what the future of this religion might be as it changes from age to age. In the short chapters here the author reflects on the current trends in theology at the time and the history of Christianity. This is an early critique of formalised religion and a simple advocacy of natural religion which is a glimpse into the basic philosophy of the early twentieth century.G. A. Gaskell’s Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths, first published in 1923, examines several different…
aspects of religion, including examples from Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology to modern-day Christianity, providing explanations of gods, events, and symbols in alphabetical order. This is a perfect reference book for students of theology or the history of religion.Published in 1978: this book contains the text of the Select Discourses of the author. The author covers a variety…
of religious topics in these essays, including superstition, atheism and the existence and nature of God.The Message of Judaism: Sermons Preached at a West London Synagogue (Routledge Revivals)
By Morris Joseph. 1907
Published in 1908, this book draws on a variety of sermons written by Rev. Morris Josephs, to provide a message…
on Judaism. Designed to create a discourse for universal readership this book covers topics such as the ethics of Jewish life, the perception of the world vs Judaism, and the religious experience of Judaism.This study, originally published in 1977, demonstrates that a change in mentality in the nineteenth-century drifted from traditional sexual controls…
and allowed them greater sexual freedom and indulgence. The process occurred in such a way that the proletariat never considered whether their newly found sexual liberation might be in conflict with the moral teachings of the Church. This title will be of interest to students of history and religion.English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford: Part I (Routledge Revivals)
By Andrew Clark. 1905
First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library…
in two parts. They consist of a preface followed the full Middle English text with glosses. The initial section of the manuscript is slightly older and consists of prefixed liturgical pieces such as the Articles of Excommunication. This follows the common historical practice of combining manuscripts to encourage their preservation. The remainder of the text presents the reader with the Register of the Estates of Godstow Abbey. The manuscript was initially created as a translation of the Latin register in order to allow the nuns, who were literate in English but not Latin, to manage their own estates. This manuscript was, at the time of publication, the only known complete English-language cartulary made for a monastic house. It holds significant implications not only for the status, linguistic development and usage of the English language, but also for women’s history in the church and their socioeconomic agency, along with the ability of language to both restrict and open doors. The text includes its own introduction in which the founding of the Abbey by Dame Edyve of Winchester, first Abbess of Godstow, is recounted, followed by deeds relating to the local area.Routledge Revivals: Buddhist Stories (Routledge Revivals)
By Paul Dahlke. 1913
First published in 1913, this book presents a translation of five stories written by the the author. Each of the…
five stories illustrates and elucidates central concepts in Buddhist philosophy while eschewing any technical terminology. As such, this book is ideal for those seeking an accessible introduction to Buddhist philosophy and will provide a platform for further study.Revival: Psychology And Religious Truth (1942) (Routledge Revivals)
By Thomas Hywel Hughes. 1942
An attempt is made in this book to open a new line of thought in theology with the aid of…
Psychology. The author strives to throw light on the basic truths of religion from a new angle and to adopt a different attitude to that usually taken by theologians. He believes that there is still more light which psychology can throw regarding these truths, but its findings are not yet adequate nor sufficiently clear for this. Here the lectures cover the bearing of psychology on - The Origin of Religion; The Idea of God: Religious Life; Religious Truth and Belief; The Trinity; The Person of Christ; The Atonement; and The Future Life.Routledge Revivals: From the Mahabharata (Routledge Revivals)
By Edwin Arnold. 1906
First published in 1909, this book presents an English translation of chapters 25-42 of the Bhishma Parva from the epic…
Sanskrit poem Mahabharata — better known as the Bhagavad-Gita, reckoned as one of the "Five Jewels" of Devanagari literature. The plot consists of a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Krishna, the Supreme Deity, in a war-chariot prior to a great battle. The conversation that takes place unfolds a philosophical system which remains the prevailing Brahmanic belief, blending the doctrines of Kapila, Patanjali, and the Vedas. Building on a number of preceding translations, this highly-regarded poetic interpretation provides a major work of literature in an accessible popular form.Ethics & Atonement (Routledge Revivals)
By W. F. Lofthouse. 1906
First published in 1906, this book considers the concept of atonement and suggest that the doctrine of atonement is not…
an artificial theorem or an inexplicable or unethical dogma, but that it has roots in the foundations of all human life. Lofthouse further argues that the doctrine of atonement is the highest expression of the law of all moral and social progress; and that ethics in itself is of little use as a practical science, unless completed by atonement.Religion (Routledge Library Editions: 19th Century Religion #6)
By Leonard W. Cowie. 1973
This title, first published in 1973, uses contemporary documents to explore religion in the nineteenth-century. The text examines the evidence…
of various Christian denominations, including Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism and the Christian Socialists, and explores various historical issues. This title will be of interest to students of both history and religion.The Church of Ireland 1869-1969 (Routledge Library Editions: 19th Century Religion #13)
By R. B. McDowell. 1975
First published in 1975. In 1869 the Church of Ireland, until then part of the Church of England, was disestablished…
and partially disendowed. The author traces the changes in the Church of Ireland’s organization and function and the decline of its influence and numerical size during the hundred years following disestablishment. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century religious and social history.The Occult Sourcebook (Routledge Library Editions: Occultism #2)
By Nevill Drury, Gregory Tillett. 1978
Originally published in 1978, The Occult Sourcebook has been compiled primarily for the many people who are for the first…
time becoming engrossed by the numerous and often confusing possibilities underlying the occult sciences. It consists of a series of articles on key areas, providing the reader with easy access to basic facts, together with a carefully planned guide to further reading. Critical comments on the recommended books allow the reader to select those which best suit their interests. The authors have also included a ‘Who’s Who of the occult’ to provide short biographies of some of the more amazing figures who have already travelled down the mystic path. The book offers a programmed system of exploration into the realms of the unknown. It will be invaluable to the increasing number of people who are concerned with the exploration of enlarging human consciousness.Originally published in 1974 Intimacy and Ritual is a sympathetic study of spiritualist activities and their relation to the practitioners’…
secular lives. The book, in particular, looks at the therapeutic function of spiritualism. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a ‘participant observer’ among spiritualists in a South Wales town, the research covers spiritualists services and meetings as well as interviews with spiritualists in their own homes. The book gives an accurate account of spiritualist doctrines and beliefs about the spirit world. The book postulates that spirit possession always relates to illness and shows how this is often the physical counterpart of social malaise. Throughout the study, spiritualism is seen in terms of the coping techniques and the rewards which it offers its members. The book shows that spiritualism is more highly regarded as a problem-solving source than the formal care-giving organizations, such as psychiatrist hospitals and the social work agencies. Healing activities are interpreted as a symbolic enactment of male and female roles ideally conceived, and spiritualist messages offer symbols and explanations of illness and misfortune.Islam at the Cross Roads: A Brief Survey of the Present Position and Problems of the World of Islam
By De Lacy O'Leary. 1923
This title, first published in 1923, examines the historical development of the Islamic faith from its origins through to its…
position in the early twentieth century. It also examines the historical reactions of Islam to the West, including the Babist Movement in the nineteenth century. This title will be of interest to students of history and MSpirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America: An Annotated Bibliography (Routledge Library Editions: Spiritualism #3)
By Irving I. Zaretsky, Cynthia Shambaugh. 1978
Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography…
on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere. The sources on Western Afro-American communities were chosen to shed light on the African continent and the Americas. The bibliography, while not exhaustive, provides extensive research on the area of research in spiritualism in Africa and Afro-America. The bibliography also provides unique sources on spirit cults, ritual or ethnic groups and will be of especial interest to researchers. Although published in the late 70s, this book will still provide an incredibly useful research tool for academics in the area of religion, with a focus on spiritualism and non-western religions.Originally published in 1965, English Medieval Pilgrimage provides a detailed overview of the history of pilgrimage during the medieval period.…
The book looks at how the process of pilgrimage was more than a religious exercise, acting as a custom, a means of escape and a form of entertainment, as well as being an act of profound faith. The book argues that the medieval pilgrimage cannot be viewed in isolation, but indeed needs to be viewed in the context of the social and religious life of the people of the medieval age, across all social classes – from king to beggar. The book examines how the different attitudes towards pilgrimage were an expression of different attitudes towards living and indeed every aspect of the temporal and spiritual worlds. The book argues that the story of medieval pilgrimage can only be fully understood when viewed in light of the whole history of the country.