Category: Faith & Philosophy

Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion by Michael Newton Keas
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Overview: Unbelievable explodes seven of the most popular and pernicious myths about science and religion. Michael Newton Keas, a historian of science, lays out the facts to show how far the conventional wisdom departs from reality. He also shows how these myths have proliferated over the past four centuries and exert so much influence today, infiltrating science textbooks and popular culture.

The seven myths, Keas shows, amount to little more than religion bashing—especially Christianity bashing.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy

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Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction (Studies in Continental Thought) by Daniela Vallega-Neu
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Overview: In her concise introduction to Martin Heidegger’s second most important work, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), Daniela Vallega-Neu provides guidance and structure to readers attempting to navigate this much-discussed but difficult text. Contributions reflects Heidegger’s struggle to think at the edge of words and to bring to language what remains beyond the written or the spoken. In view of the centrality of Being and Time to Heidegger interpretation in recent decades, Vallega-Neu introduces Contributions first by reconsidering Being and Time in light of the transformative turn from prepositional thought to the poietic, performative character of thinking and language that marks the passage between the two works. She then discusses each of the “joinings” that structure the composition of Contributions. This graceful introduction provides students and scholars with a much-needed key for unlocking the thinking that underlies Heidegger’s later writings.
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Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report, by Robert E. Morrell (1987)
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Overview: Our view of Kamakura Buddhism rests largely on interpretations by the heirs of its successful innovators—the Zen, Nichiren, and Pure Land movements—while the Establishment is represented merely as the hostile background against which our currently accepted heroes of the age had to struggle to create their brave new world.

In this “minority report,” four leaders of the traditional older sects are given an opportunity to present their side: Tendai’s Jien, Hossō’s Jōkei, Kegon’s Myōe, and Shingon’s Kakukai—largely through selected translations of their writings, and other contemporary accounts. Students of history, literature, and religion are invited to reexamine this critical period in the story of Japanese religion from a new perspective.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy Kamakura, Buddhism, Japan

Accolades:
In this clear and carefully documented work, Morrell gives us a glimpse of the ‘other side’ to the spirituality of Kamakura Buddhism.… It makes fascinating reading for a broad range of readers: historians, literature scholars, and buddhologists.

Alan Miller

Morrell’s book shows a rare command of both the Buddhist textual and literary traditions..

Martin Collcutt

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Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History, by Chün-fang Yü (2020)
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Overview: What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? These are some of the basic questions addressed in this book, the first introduction to Chinese Buddhism written expressly for students and those interested in an accessible yet authoritative overview of the subject based on current scholarship.

After presenting the basic tenets of the Buddha’s teachings and the Chinese religious traditions, the book focuses on topics essential for understanding Chinese Buddhism: major scriptures, worship of buddhas and bodhisattvas, rituals and festivals, the monastic order, Buddhist schools such as Tiantai and Chan, Buddhism and gender, and current trends—notably humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan and the resurgence of Buddhism in post-Mao China. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. A convenient glossary of common terms, titles, and names is included.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy China, Buddhism, History

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The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity and Diversity, 2nd Edition by Roger E. Olson
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Overview: In The Mosaic of Christian Belief Roger E. Olson thematically traces the contours of Christian belief down through the ages, revealing a pattern of both unity and diversity. He finds a consensus of teaching that is both unitive and able to incorporate a faithful diversity when not forced into the molds of false either-or alternatives. The mosaic that emerges from Olson’s work, now updated throughout and with a new chapter on the Holy Spirit, displays a mediating evangelical theology that is irenic in spirit and tone. Olson, writing with nonspecialists in mind, has masterfully sketched out the contours of the Great Tradition of the Christian faith with simplicity while avoiding oversimplification.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy

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