Issue: Human Society

Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 | |

Pluralism is a characteristic features of the world we live in. People belonging to different cultures, religions, languages, traditions and ways of the together in reasonable harmony.These cultural and religious traditions and woven together in such a way that, while every culture and religion keeps its uniqueness, it is also enriched by other cultures and religions. But in recent years there has been an increased rupture in harmonious living.The communal conflicts and violence in the past few years is causing to the beautiful fabric of humanity.

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Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus

Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 | |

Originally published in 1984, this extraordinary work has until now been available only in an expensive library edition. The present edition has been completely updated and redesigned, and includes an extended new introduction by Marcus Borg that relates the book’s central arguments to subsequent Jesus scholarship.

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Inventing the Universe

Inventing the Universe

Posted by | Aug 1, 2020 | |

We just can’t stop talking about the big questions around science and faith. They haven’t gone away, as some predicted they might; in fact, we seem to talk about them more than ever. Far from being a spent force, religion continues to grow around the world. Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists argue that religion is at war with science – and that we have to choose between them.

It’s time to consider a different way of looking at these two great cultural forces. What if science and faith might enrich each other? What if they can together give us a deep and satisfying understanding of life?

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In Gods We Trust

In Gods We Trust

Posted by | Aug 1, 2020 | |

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.

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Immoderate Greatness

Immoderate Greatness

Posted by | Aug 1, 2020 | |

Immoderate Greatness explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure.

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