“…It serves as a guide for undergraduates, graduate students, and high-school upperclassmen in environmental studies, business, sociology, gender and sexuality, cross-cultural studies, music, religion, and communications and media. For more on Artistic Circles and Ann E Feldman's work, please visit https://www.buildingcommunitiesoftrust.org/ The Open Access version of this book has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003296423/building-communities-trust-ann-feldman…”

“…Prueba de ello, su incansable celebración de la alegría de vivir, de la amistad y del amor, su insobornable defensa del diálogo entre religiones y del uso de la razón para sustentar con fuerza imbatible la fe de los cristianos…”

“…La Ilustración situó la igualdad entre sus grandes principios, las religiones monoteístas la promulgaron frente a un dios y la Revolución francesa la incorporó en su célebre tríada revolucionaria. …”

“…He illuminates contemporary disputes ranging from presidential prerogatives to health care legislation, while reexamining such enduring topics as the institution of judicial review, the federal government's role in regulating economic activity, freedom of speech and religion, and equal protection…”

“…Disincanto costituzionale sta qui per laicità, intesa come principio giuridico che impone la separazione tra stato e chiese, la libertà di e dalla religione. Illuminismo e costituzionalismo avevano promesso che sfera pubblica e decisione politica sarebbero state governate da un principio di ragione. …”

“…With attention to the ways in which emotional language has brought new problematisations of the dichotomy between the normal and the pathological, as well as significant transformations of key institutions, such as work, family, education and religion, it examines emergent trends in therapeutic culture and explores the manner in which the advent of new therapeutic technologies, the political interest in happiness, and the radical privatisation and financialisation of social life converge to remake self-identities and modes of everyday experience. …”

“…Non manca, in questo quadro, chi elabora forme di "cristoterapia" che si propongono di coniugare psicologia e religione, facendo ricorso alla fede come via di guarigione. …”

“…The weight of scholarship behind this book makes it an important study for students of nineteenth-century literature, philosophy and religion, while the general reader should find this a lucid and compelling account of the interplay of sharply contrasting ideas and personalities." …”

“…Garrigues weaves a truly American story of colonial life in early New Orleans, detailing commerce and competition on the Mississippi, colonist and Native American interaction, slavery and women’s subservience to men, Catholicism in conflict with folk religion and European privilege over colonial merit. …”

“…Kloppenberg shows that Obama's positions on social justice, religion, race, family, and America's role in the world do not stem from a desire to please everyone but from deeply rooted - although currently unfashionable - convictions about how a democracy must deal with difference and conflict…”

“…Throughout the book, Pruss exposits such paradoxes, defends causal finitism at length, and considers connections with the philosophy of physics (where causal finitism favors but does not require discretist theories of space and time) and the philosophy of religion (with a cosmological argument for a first cause)."…”

“…Durante miles de años, la habilidad de producir este material de una forma cada vez más eficiente ha contribuido al desarrollo de la alfabetización, los medios de comunicación, las religiones, la educación, el comercio y el arte. El papel ha sido el cimiento sobre el que se han erigido civilizaciones, ha avivado revoluciones y ha restaurado la estabilidad en territorios sumidos en el caos. …”

“…Alcanzó justa fama como escritor, poeta, místico, activista social y estudioso de las religiones…”

“…Sin embargo, reaccionamos ante ello; es imposible ignorar la tendencia hacia la mezcla y la hibridación: del judaísmo Zen a la comida occidental con soja, las religiones New Age, el kung fu nigeriano, las películas de Bollywood o la música reggae o raï. …”

“…La Escuela Suiza y el Liceo Francés, con gallinas, clases de violín y los ríos de Alemania; el lanzador de peso Bajerbe; los años del Bocaccio y el primer amor; la utilidad del esencial «sí-coma-pero» y el espíritu crítico; religiones, creencias y supersticiones; la Fundación «la Caixa» y el CosmoCaixa... …”

“…Un elemento no desdeñable de las religiones políticas contemporáneas, desde el jacobinismo al nazismo, fue la emulación del pasado clásico. …”

“…Entre tanto, allí se han inventado las religiones monoteístas, se han dirigido los mayores conquistadores y se han enfrentado los mayores imperios. …”

“…The starting-point of this research was the desire to set forth a variety of possible relationships which are all in accordance with Islamic belief, but nevertheless demonstrate diversity in understanding the relationship between the human and the divine which in turn suggests the concept of plurality within one religion. Examining these three concepts, which build firm connections between God and humans, reveals the importance of rational inquiry in medieval Islamic thought, not only because it was a source of logical arguments for Islam against its opponents but mainly because it built different bridges leading to God. …”
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“…Au-delà de leurs théories sur la vérité ou l’expérience, au-delà même de leurs méthodes d’analyse et d’enquête, la promotion et l’extension d’une manière de penser antidogmatique et anti­autoritaire dans tous les secteurs de la vie humaine – depuis la science jusqu’à la morale, la politique et la religion – sont leur projet le plus important et le plus digne d’être enseigné aujourd’hui --…”

“…La primera se presenta como una teología de la revelación y de la fe, a la cual se une un examen de la teología de las religiones. La segunda, contiene un amplio estudio de la credibilidad de la revelación en sus diversos aspectos y relaciones, tanto teológicos como antropológicos. …”