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Religion and Life: Christianity for Edexcel GCSE (PDF)

Written by senior examiners and endorsed by Edexcel, this second edition of Religion and Life: Christianity has been fully revised to meet the structure, content and assessment requirements of the new Edexcel GCSE in Religious Studies Specification A, Unit 2. This new edition integrates the requirements of the new GCSE into the familiar and proven format of the previous edition, with: exam-specific advice, questions and model answers a clear, accessible structure to guide students through the course student-focused features to aid learning such as key terms and summary boxes up-to-date photos and examples.

Religion And Life: Islam (PDF)

Written by experienced examiners to give readers confidence, this book provides support for all options. Differentiated and contemporary content boosts motivation and caters for every student, and ResultPlus combines real exam performance data with examiner insight to give guidance on how to achieve better results.

Religion and Life: Catholic Christianity for Edexcel, Revision Guide (PDF)

This revision guide has been written by an expert in order to help you achieve your best in Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies Units 3 and 10.

Religion and Life: Catholic Christianity for Edexcel, Revision Guide (PDF)

This revision guide has been written by an expert in order to help you achieve your best in Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies Units 3 and 10.

Religion and Life: foundation resource edition

This foundation edition has been designed as a compliment to full text editions of Religion and Life, and should be ideal for use with the 2001 specification short course in religious education. While covering different religions, such as Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity, it looks at various issues like life and death, religion and the media and believing in God, all designed to challenge the view of students. There are also exam questions on each topic that are relevant to the Certificate of Achievement and GCSE.

Religion and Life: foundation resource edition (PDF)

This foundation edition has been designed as a compliment to full text editions of Religion and Life, and should be ideal for use with the 2001 specification short course in religious education. While covering different religions, such as Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity, it looks at various issues like life and death, religion and the media and believing in God, all designed to challenge the view of students. There are also exam questions on each topic that are relevant to the Certificate of Achievement and GCSE.

Religion and Life: foundation resource edition (PDF)

This foundation edition has been designed as a compliment to full text editions of Religion and Life, and should be ideal for use with the 2001 specification short course in religious education. While covering different religions, such as Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity, it looks at various issues like life and death, religion and the media and believing in God, all designed to challenge the view of students. There are also exam questions on each topic that are relevant to the Certificate of Achievement and GCSE.

Religion and Life: foundation resource edition (PDF)

This foundation edition has been designed as a compliment to full text editions of Religion and Life, and should be ideal for use with the 2001 specification short course in religious education. While covering different religions, such as Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity, it looks at various issues like life and death, religion and the media and believing in God, all designed to challenge the view of students. There are also exam questions on each topic that are relevant to the Certificate of Achievement and GCSE.

Religion and Life: foundation resource edition (PDF)

This foundation edition has been designed as a compliment to full text editions of Religion and Life, and should be ideal for use with the 2001 specification short course in religious education. While covering different religions, such as Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity, it looks at various issues like life and death, religion and the media and believing in God, all designed to challenge the view of students. There are also exam questions on each topic that are relevant to the Certificate of Achievement and GCSE.

Religion and Life: Foundation Edition (5th edition) (PDF)

Written by an experienced examiner, this fifth edition of this foundation edition of the bestselling Religion and Life textbook has been fully revised to meet the requirements of the new Edexcel GCSE RS specification for 2009. This foundation edition is a simplified version of the mainstream edition, but with the same pagination and illustrations so that it can be used alongside the mainstream edition with mixed-ability groups. Like the mainstream edition, this new foundation edition integrates the requirements of the new GCSE into the familiar and proven format of the previous edition of Religion and Life, with: exam-specific advice, questions and model answers a clear, accessible structure to guide students through the course student-focused features to aid learning such as key terms and summary boxes up-to-date photos and examples. This fifth edition is accompanied by new editions of the Religion and Life mainstream edition, Teacher's Resource Pack, Revision Guide and fully-featured Dynamic Learning CD-ROM.

Religion and Life (5th edition) (PDF)

Fully addresses the requirements of the Edexcel GCSE in Religious Studies Specification A, Unit 1 specification in an easy way for your students to understand Written by an expert and endorsed by Edexcel, this fifth edition of the bestselling Religion and Life textbook has been fully revised to meet the structure, content and assessment requirements of the latest Edexcel GCSE in Religious Studies Specification A, Unit 1. Makes difficult topics accessible to your students using clear explanations, illustrations and statistics Supports students exam preparation with exam-specific advice, questions and model answers Aids learning with student-focused features, such as key terms and summary boxes

Religion and life cycles in early modern England (Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies #14)

Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c. 1550–1800. Featuring chapters on Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, it encourages cross-confessional comparison between life stages and rites of passage that were of religious significance to all faiths in early modern England. The book considers biological processes such as birth and death, aspects of the social life cycle including schooling, coming of age and marriage and understandings of religious transition points such as spiritual awakenings and conversion. Through this inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, it seeks to show that the life cycle was not something fixed or predetermined and that early modern individuals experienced multiple, overlapping life cycles.

Religion and life cycles in early modern England (Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies #14)

Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c. 1550–1800. Featuring chapters on Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, it encourages cross-confessional comparison between life stages and rites of passage that were of religious significance to all faiths in early modern England. The book considers biological processes such as birth and death, aspects of the social life cycle including schooling, coming of age and marriage and understandings of religious transition points such as spiritual awakenings and conversion. Through this inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, it seeks to show that the life cycle was not something fixed or predetermined and that early modern individuals experienced multiple, overlapping life cycles.

Religion and Life Issues: Revision Guide (PDF)

Religion and Life Issues Revision Guide supports your knowledge and understanding of the course content and gives you confidence in revising for the examination.

Religion and Life Issues: GCSE Religious Studies for AQA B (PDF)

Combines engaging content and activities with effective exam preparation for AQA GCSE Religious Studies B: Unit 2, and has been written by experienced examiners and teachers.

Religion and Life Issues Revision Guide (PDF)

Succeed at AQA GCSE Religious Studies B: Unit 2 with this revision guide which provides the content you need and guidance on applying it. Religion and Life Issues Revision Guide supports your knowledge and understanding of the course content and gives you confidence in revising for the examination.

Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt

The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. Religion and magic permeated their civilization, and this book provides a unique insight into their religious beliefs and practices, from 5000 BC to the 4th century AD, when Egyptian Christianity replaced the earlier customs. Arranged chronologically, this book provides a fascinating introduction to the world of half-human/ half-animal gods and goddesses; death rituals, the afterlife and mummification; the cult of sacred animals, pyramids, magic and medicine. An appendix contains translations of Ancient Eygtian spells.

Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief

Religious belief is rooted in and sustained by material practice, and this book provides an extraordinary insight into how it works on the ground. David Morgan has brought together a lively group of writers from religious studies, anthropology, history of art, and other disciplines, to investigate belief in everyday practices; in the objects, images, and spaces of religious devotion and in the sensations and feelings that are the medium of experience. By avoiding mind/body dualism, the study of religion can break new ground by examining embodiment, sensation, space, and performance. Materializing belief means taking a close look at what people do, how they feel, the objects they exchange and display, and the spaces in which they perform whether spontaneously or with scripted ceremony. Contributions to the volume examine religions around the world—from Korea and Brazil to North America, Europe, and Africa. Belief is explored in a wealth of contexts, including Tibetan Buddhism, the hajj, American suburbia and the world of dreams, visions and UFOs.

Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture)

This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of individuals and greater shifts within Chinese society in an increasingly media-saturated environment. With case studies focusing on Mainland China (including Tibet), Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as diasporic Chinese communities outside Asia, contributors consider topics including the historical and ideological roots of media representations of religion, expressions of religious faith online and in social media, state intervention (through both censorship and propaganda), religious institutions’ and communities’ use of various forms of media, and the role of the media in relations between online/offline and local/diaspora communities. Chapters engage with the major religious traditions practiced in contemporary China, namely Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, and new religious movements. Religion and the Media in China serves as a critical survey of case studies and suggests theoretical and methodological tools for a thorough and systematic study of religion in modern China. Contributors to the volume include historians of religion, sinologists, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and media and communication scholars. The critical theories that contributors develop around key concepts in religion—such as authority, community, church, ethics, pilgrimage, ritual, text, and practice—contribute to advancing the emerging field of religion and media studies.

Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture)

This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of individuals and greater shifts within Chinese society in an increasingly media-saturated environment. With case studies focusing on Mainland China (including Tibet), Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as diasporic Chinese communities outside Asia, contributors consider topics including the historical and ideological roots of media representations of religion, expressions of religious faith online and in social media, state intervention (through both censorship and propaganda), religious institutions’ and communities’ use of various forms of media, and the role of the media in relations between online/offline and local/diaspora communities. Chapters engage with the major religious traditions practiced in contemporary China, namely Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, and new religious movements. Religion and the Media in China serves as a critical survey of case studies and suggests theoretical and methodological tools for a thorough and systematic study of religion in modern China. Contributors to the volume include historians of religion, sinologists, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and media and communication scholars. The critical theories that contributors develop around key concepts in religion—such as authority, community, church, ethics, pilgrimage, ritual, text, and practice—contribute to advancing the emerging field of religion and media studies.

Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions

Though the current political climate might lead one to suspect that religion and medicine make for uncomfortable bedfellows, the two institutions have a long history of alliance. From religious healers and religious hospitals to religiously informed bioethics and research studies on the impact of religious and spiritual beliefs on physical and mental well-being, religion and medicine have encountered one another from antiquity through the present day. In Religion and Medicine, Dr. Jeff Levin outlines this longstanding history and the multifaceted interconnections between these two institutions. The first book to cover the full breadth of this subject, it documents religion-medicine alliances across religious traditions, throughout the world, and over the course of history. Levin summarizes a wide range of material in the most comprehensive introduction to this emerging field of scholarship to date.

Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions

Though the current political climate might lead one to suspect that religion and medicine make for uncomfortable bedfellows, the two institutions have a long history of alliance. From religious healers and religious hospitals to religiously informed bioethics and research studies on the impact of religious and spiritual beliefs on physical and mental well-being, religion and medicine have encountered one another from antiquity through the present day. In Religion and Medicine, Dr. Jeff Levin outlines this longstanding history and the multifaceted interconnections between these two institutions. The first book to cover the full breadth of this subject, it documents religion-medicine alliances across religious traditions, throughout the world, and over the course of history. Levin summarizes a wide range of material in the most comprehensive introduction to this emerging field of scholarship to date.

Religion And Mental Health

Religion and Mental Health

This is an interdisciplinary collection of previously unpublished papers on the controversial relationship between religious behavior and mental health. Schumaker has assembled a distinguished international roster of contributors--sociologists and anthropologists as well as psychiatrists and psychologists of religion--representing a wide range of opinions concerning the mental health implications of religious belief and practice. Taken together, the papers provide a comprehensive overview of theory and research in the field. Included are papers on the interaction of religion and self-esteem, life meaning and well-being, sexual and marital adjustment, anxiety, depression, suicide, psychoticism, rationality, self-actualization, and various patterns of anti-social behavior. Religion is also dealt with in relation to mental health of women, the elderly, and children. Contributions dealing with mental health in non-Western religious groups add an important cross-cultural dimension to the volume.

Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison

This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments. Most of the approaches in sociology of religion are prone to emphasise either processes of religious decline or of religious upswing. For example, secularization theory usually includes a couple of relevant factors—such as functional differentiation, economic affluence or social equality—in order to account for religious change. However, the result of such a theory's empirical analyses seems to be certain in advance, namely that the social relevance of religion is decreasing. In contrast, the religious market model devised by sociologists of religion in the US is inclined to detect everywhere processes of religious upsurge. Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison avoids a purely theoretically based perspective on religious changes. For this reason, Detlef Pollack and Gergely Rosta do not begin with theoretical propositions but with questions. The authors raise the question of how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies, and explain what factors and conditions have contributed to these changes.