ISBN: 9798999388025 - a truth versus the truth: how religious people embrace or resist the modern world: a guide to recognizing and talking about faith in everyday life (10 resultados)

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In A Truth Versus The Truth, chaplain and interfaith leader Stephen Roberts offers a compelling, accessible guide to understanding how religious communities around the world engage with the modern world. Drawing on decades of experience, Roberts introduces a powerful interpretive tool called the Modernity Spectrum, which helps readers explore how faith communities choose to embrace, reject, or adapt to the social, scientific, and cultural changes of our time. Whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or from other religious or spiritual traditions, people of faith often find themselves navigating deep tensions between inherited beliefs and present-day realities.With clarity, warmth, and insight, Roberts explores key areas where religion and modernity frequently collide-science and education, gender roles, sexuality, modesty, dietary laws, and even religiously motivated violence. Through real-world examples, historical context, and comparative insights across multiple traditions, he illustrates how some communities resist modernity to preserve what they believe is sacred truth, while others reinterpret core teachings in order to live faithfully within a changing world.Rather than judging one perspective over another, Roberts invites readers into a larger and more nuanced conversation. He helps us see that what can appear to be contradiction or conflict is often rooted in different ways of defining truth, religious authority, and communal identity. Readers may find that two individuals from entirely different religions have more in common with each other than with someone from their own tradition-depending on where they fall on the Modernity Spectrum.Accessible and clearly written for a broad and diverse readership, A Truth Versus The Truth is a timely and thought-provoking resource. It will resonate with people from every faith tradition, as well as those without religious affiliation-educators, chaplains, interfaith professionals, community leaders, students of religion, and anyone curious about the evolving role of religion in the modern world.Whether you are devout, secular, spiritual-but-not-religious, or still figuring it out, this book offers a fresh and respectful lens to understand the complex ways people live out their deepest convictions today.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In A Truth Versus The Truth, chaplain and interfaith leader Stephen Roberts offers a compelling, accessible guide to understanding how religious communities around the world engage with the modern world. Drawing on decades of experience, Roberts introduces a powerful interpretive tool called the Modernity Spectrum, which helps readers explore how faith communities choose to embrace, reject, or adapt to the social, scientific, and cultural changes of our time. Whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or from other religious or spiritual traditions, people of faith often find themselves navigating deep tensions between inherited beliefs and present-day realities.With clarity, warmth, and insight, Roberts explores key areas where religion and modernity frequently collide-science and education, gender roles, sexuality, modesty, dietary laws, and even religiously motivated violence. Through real-world examples, historical context, and comparative insights across multiple traditions, he illustrates how some communities resist modernity to preserve what they believe is sacred truth, while others reinterpret core teachings in order to live faithfully within a changing world.Rather than judging one perspective over another, Roberts invites readers into a larger and more nuanced conversation. He helps us see that what can appear to be contradiction or conflict is often rooted in different ways of defining truth, religious authority, and communal identity. Readers may find that two individuals from entirely different religions have more in common with each other than with someone from their own tradition-depending on where they fall on the Modernity Spectrum.Accessible and clearly written for a broad and diverse readership, A Truth Versus The Truth is a timely and thought-provoking resource. It will resonate with people from every faith tradition, as well as those without religious affiliation-educators, chaplains, interfaith professionals, community leaders, students of religion, and anyone curious about the evolving role of religion in the modern world.Whether you are devout, secular, spiritual-but-not-religious, or still figuring it out, this book offers a fresh and respectful lens to understand the complex ways people live out their deepest convictions today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…