Religion and Spirituality

Megachurch Attendees Tend To Be Young And Rich
by eNotAlone.com
The National Survey of Megachurch Attendees, a newly released U.S. survey by Leadership Network and Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research, has revealed that compared to attendees of a typical Protestant church

Half Of Americans Switch To Another Religion
by eNotAlone.com
Nearly half of adults in the United States have changed religious faith at least once during their lives, most of them in their early twenties, according to findings of a huge new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life.

Religious Faith Helps Cancer Patients
by eNotAlone.com
Strong religious faith can help terminally ill cancer patients to better handle and cope with their disease during their last weeks of life, according to Boston scientists.

Religion Becomes Less Important To Americans
by eNotAlone.com
According to the findings of the new American Religious Identification Survey, the percentage of people in the United States who stop calling themselves Christians, nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing to 15 per cent last year.

Faith In God Helps Anxiety And Stress
by eNotAlone.com
Canadian scientists from the University of Toronto found that there are differences in the brains of religious people and those who are not. New findings show that people who believe in God experience less anxiety and stress compared to non-religious

Benefits Of Transcendental Meditation
by eNotAlone.com
Meditation might help to increase the brain function and lower stress, according the first of its kind study that examined the effects of transcendental meditation (TM) on anxiety and brain functioning.

Healing Through Prayer
by eNotAlone.com
Nowadays in the United States millions of Americans offer prayers on a daily basis to heal themselves, their families, friends, colleagues and even people they briefly know, considering it as the most common complement to medicine, vitamins, herbs

Ash Wednesday
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
by Karen Armstrong
In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford.

Asra: The Axial Peoples
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
by Karen Armstrong
In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions that have endured to the present day - the development of Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India

Remember the Sabbath
Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives
by Wayne Muller
In today's world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance.

Spirituality: Just Do It
Working on God
by Winifred Gallagher
Millions of Americans are finding it more and more difficult to apply the traditional demands of organized religion to their lives, and yet a complete absence of spirituality leaves them uneasy.

Modern Religious Cults and Movements
by Gaius Glenn Atkins
The last thirty years, though as dates go this is only an approximation, have witnessed a marked development of religious cults and movements largely outside the lines of historic Catholicism and Protestantism.

Evening Round-Up
by William Crosbie Hunter
Many churches today are running to extremes one way or the other. On the one hand they are conducted along the lines of form, ceremony and ritualism, while the other extreme is excitement, ecstasy and enthusiasm.

Putting It Mildly
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens, Ph.D.
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts

Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
by René Descartes
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure

Religion, a Dialogue
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer is one of the few philosophers who can be generally understood without a commentary. All his theories claim to be drawn direct from the facts, to be suggested by observation, and to interpret the world as it is; and whatever view he takes

Quit Your Worrying!
by George Wharton James
Misunderstandings, misconceptions, and ignorance in regard to what really is religion have caused countless millions to mourn - and worry; indeed, far more to worry than to mourn. Religion should be a joyous thing, the bringing of the son and daughter

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
by William James
It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned audience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man
by Patañjali
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and detail.

Heart and Soul by Maveric Post
by Victor Mapes
All about us are living things - plants, fish, animals - whose existence, as far as we know, seems limited to these simple considerations. They form part of man's life - one side of his nature - the animal side.