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Moral Psychology
Virtue and Character
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.
Philosophers have discussed virtue and character since Socrates, but many traditional views have been challenged by recent...
Ghosts of Atlanta
Phantoms of the Phoenix City
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
A world famous psychic medium and cold case researcher unravels the history and mystery that make Georgia’s capital city a center of the supernatural.
Do the ghosts of Civil War soldiers still march through the mists of Kennesaw National Battlefield on the outskirts of Atlanta? Can those...
by Christian Jaramillo
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Philosopher and historian Christian Jaramillo puts forward new and revolutionary approaches to understanding God, the stances that religions should adopt, the development of science, and the States role in the pursuit of human freedom. By studying the evolution of mankind and its religious societies...
by Christian Joppke
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
The Islamic headscarf has become the subject of heated legal and political debate. France and Germany have legislated against it, and even the UK, long a champion of multiculturalism, has recently restricted the veil proper. Ever since home-grown Islamic terrorism struck Europe, these debates have...
by Dr. Joe Hair, G. Tomas M. Hult, Dr. Christian M. Ringle
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
A Primer on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) by Joseph F. Hair, Jr., G. Tomas M. Hult, Christian Ringle, and Marko Sarstedt is a practical guide that provides concise instructions on how to use partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), an evolving statistical...
Blood, Iron, and Gold
How the Railways Transformed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of a transport revolution that would forever transform the way we live. Blood, Iron, and Gold takes us on a journey encompassing jungle, mountain, and desert, revealing the huge impact of the railroads as they spread...
Bible Made Impossible, The
Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability. Acclaimed sociologist Christian Smith argues that this...
by Christian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Counter to popular perceptions, contemporary American sociology is and promotes a profoundly sacred project at heart. Sociology today is in fact animated by sacred impulses, driven by sacred commitments, and serves a sacred project. Sociology appears on the surface to be a secular, scientific enterprise--its...
Atheist Overreach
What Atheism Can't Deliver
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
In recent years atheism has become ever more visible, acceptable, and influential. Atheist apologists have become increasingly vociferous and confident in their claims: that a morality requiring benevolence towards all and universal human rights need not be grounded in religion; that modern science...
Moral, Believing Animals
Human Personhood and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental...
Souls in Transition:The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
How important is religion for young people in America today? What are the major influences on their developing spiritual lives? How do their religious beliefs and practices change as young people enter into adulthood? Christian Smith's Souls in Transition explores these questions and many others as...
To Flourish or Destruct
A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately “capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what...
MySpace to Sacred Space
God for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Recently, MySpace.com has become one of the most-visited Web sites in the world. With millions of young users, this one site has made a giant impact on youth pop culture in just a matter of a few years. At the same time, themes of spirituality pervade our lives. From television to film and popular...
by Balfour Christian
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
A microscopic look at the science and religion behind evolutionary theories, particularly how our universe started. Charles Darwin dismissed the Genesis creation model as fiction but there is current scientific evidence that strongly supports this biblical viewpoint. The recent discovery of huge light...