Transforming the World Conversations (Religion) Notes and Links (22 feb 2019)4 min read

Here are links for my Transforming the World Conversation (Religion) on Fri, 18 Jan 2019. I have tried to keep this links as uncontroversial and as academic as possible, with the exception of the section of separation of church and state.

The previous date was snowed out and was rescheduled for Fri, 22 Feb 2019.

My Posts

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (MHoN) and the Biopsychosocial model in Psychology (BPS)
• Religion, an Overview

Ancient Greek and Roman Gods and History

• Cults Of The Imperial Legions (UN RV)
• Fall of the Pagans and the Origins of Medieval Christianity (Kenneth Harl)

Biblical Geology

• 7 Days of Creation (2003)
• Biblical Geology? Part 1: Scriptures that Make Geological Observations

Ceremonies and Prayers

• Prayers at Catholic.org
• Rituals at PaganLibrary.org
• ULC Seminary Ceremonies
• ULC Ceremonies
• ULC Wedding Words and More

Christianity

• Augustine: Philosopher and Saint (Phillip Cary)
• English Bible History
• God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer (Bart Ehrman)
• Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don’t Know About Them (Bart Ehrman)
• Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals (John Buehrens)
• The Evolution of God (Robert Wright) 
• The Case for God (Karen Armstrong)
• The History of the Bible: The Making of New Testament Canon (Bart Ehrman)
• The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “Original Jesus” a Pagan God?(Tim Freke)
• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Reza Aslan)

Divine Feminine

• Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (Willam Dever)
• Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religions History (Rosemary Ruether)
• Goddess Symbols: Universal Signs Of The Divine Female (Claire Gibson)
• Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians (Time Freke)
• Mary Magdalene and the Divine Feminine: Jesus’ Lost Teachings on Women (Elizabeth Prophet)
• The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity (Cynthia Bourgeault)

Evolutionary Creationism

• Evolutionary Creationism (Wikipedia)
• Bible, Creation, and Science (by Ulirich Utiger)
• If Science is Right, is Genesis Wrong? (Loren and Deborah Haarsma, 1999)

Free Thought Movement

• Free Thought Movement (Wikipedia)

Gnostic Bible (Nag Hammadi)

• Nag Hammadi (Wikipedia) or Nag Hammadi Library
• Gnostic Gospels (Wikipedia)
• Sexuality and the Sacred in Gnostic Literature
• Gnostic Christianity: The Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber
• Open Letter Gnostic Scholars

Human Rights

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the UN
• Youth for Human Rights (their videos are powerful and moving)

Humanism

• American Humanist
• Humanism (Wikipedia entry)
• The Humanist (magazine)

Paganism/Wicca

• Wicca: Overview of practices, tools, and rituals @ Religious Tolerance
• Seeking the Mystery: An Introduction to Pagan Theologies (Christine Kraemer)

Religion and Research

• Animated map shows how religion spread around the world (Youtube)
• Public Religion Research Institute
• Religion Facts
• Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development (James Fowler)

Sacred Texts

• Sacred Text Archive

Secularism/ Secular Humanism

• Secular Humanism (Wikipedia)
• Counsel for Secular Humanism
• Secular Coalition for America

Separation of Church and State

• Separation of Church and State (Wikipedia)
• The Conservative Assault on the Constitution by Erwin Chemerinsky (Sep 2010)
• The Faiths of Our Founding Fathers by David Holmes (May  2006)
• Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America by Steven Waldman (Mar 2008)
• The Myth of Christian America: What You Need to Know about the Separation of Church and State(Mark Whitten)
• Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality by Elizabeth Price Foley (Nov 2006)
• God on Trial: Landmark Cases from America’s Religious Battlefields by Peter Irons (Jun 2008)

Historical Sexual Oppression

• Sex and Punishment: 4 Thousand Years of Judging Desire (Erik Berkowitz, 2012)
• Christian Sexual Morality: A House of Cards Built on Stoic Philosophies?
• Historical Roots of Sexual Oppression
• Myth, Sexuality, and Culture: The influence of the church (3 parts)

Sexuality, Sacred or Prostitution, Sacred

• Internet Sacred Text Archive: Sacred Sexuality
• Introduction to the New Holy Erotics
• Sacred Prostitution (Wikipedia)
• Sacred Prostitutes (Johanna Stuckey)
• The Whores of Babylon via the Temple of Ishtar
• The New Temple Prostitution

Qadishtu

• Temple of the Red Lotus
• Erotic Awakening

Unitarian Universalism

• Free Congregation of Sauk County â€“ a Free Thought (German) and Unitarian Universalist Congregation
• Rev. Deb Haffner (UU Minister and Sexologist)
• Rev Deborah Haffner’s BLog
• Rev Deb Haffner’s articles at the Huffington Post
• BLog for Ravenstone’s Reflections (Desmond Ravenstone, a Unitarian Universalist lay leader, writer, and educator)
• Unitarian Universalism (Wikipedia)
• Unitarian Universalism Association
• A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism (John Buehrens)
• The Cathedral of the World: A Universalist Theology (Forrest Church)

Universal Life Church

• Universal Life Church
• ULC Seminary