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    Category: Religion & Spirituality

    Incarnation – A New Evolutionary Threshold

    Incarnation – A New Evolutionary Threshold

    Author: Diarmuid O'Murchu
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    Diarmuid O'Murchu is a forward-thinking Catholic priest and social psychologist, who in this book elaborates a new concept of the Christian idea of incarnation as…… Read More »
    Religion

    Religion

    Author: Christian Smith
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    Written by a leading sociologist, this fascinating and important book analyses what religion is, how it works and why it matters, using an approach combining…… Read More »
    Religion as Metaphor

    Religion as Metaphor

    Author: David Tacey
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    This is a book that should be widely read, but sadly the publishers are pricing it out of the reach of ordinary readers – so…… Read More »
    Islam, Peace and the "Humzaad Soulmates – a 21st century futuristic reinterpretation of Islami Sufism

    Islam, Peace and the "Humzaad Soulmates – a 21st century futuristic reinterpretation of Islami Sufism

    Author: Dr Ikram Azam
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    Access to this page is restricted to Members and Friends of the Scientific and Medical Network Only. Please log in or become a member to… Read More »
    The Bhagavad Gita

    The Bhagavad Gita

    Author: Ravi Ravindra
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    The Bhagavad Gita, according to Ravi, is perhaps the single most important text to emerge from India. I have a number of editions, including those…… Read More »
    BELIEF WITHOUT BORDERS: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious

    BELIEF WITHOUT BORDERS: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious

    Author: Linda A. Mercadante
    Reviewer: Oliver Robinson
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    There is a demographic revolution going on in the Western world. Several decades back, the label of 'spiritual but not religious' (SBNR) did not exist.…… Read More »
    Joan Chittister

    Joan Chittister

    Author: Tom Roberts
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    I don't imagine many readers have come across the work of Joan Chittister unless it was in review of one of her books a few…… Read More »
    Personal Transformation and a New Creation

    Personal Transformation and a New Creation

    Author: Ilia Delio
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    This volume is devoted to the work of Beatrice Bruteau, a new name to me, but someone who was nurtured by both Catholic Christianity and…… Read More »
    The Death of the Church and Spirituality Reborn

    The Death of the Church and Spirituality Reborn

    Author: Reverend John (Middleton)
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    This is a controversial and radical book by an ordained Anglican priest who was also a scientist, psychic and therapeutic counsellor. The title indicates the…… Read More »
    Why is Easter a Moveable Feast?

    Why is Easter a Moveable Feast?

    Author: Walther Buhler
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    It seems that there is a movement to fix the date of Easter across Christendom, but this book explains why this might be a questionable…… Read More »
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