Oregon Humanities is a journal of ideas and perspectives published twice a year by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Each issue includes essays and articles that explore a particular theme from a variety of perspectives, broadening the ways in which readers think about a subject and providing a basis for further thoughtful discussion.
Association for the Sociology of Religion website
Augustine's Confessions in Latin and English translations
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People by Jon Butler (1990)
The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today by Charles Marsh (2005)
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels (2003)
The Bible Gateway: a Ministry of Gospel Communications
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller (2003)
"Darwin and Evolution" (special section in the November 2005 issue of Natural History magazine
Encountering God: A Spiriual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras by Diana L. Eck (1993)
"Experience," in Essays: Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller (1999)
The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004)
The Gnostic Religion by Hans Jonas
God's Politics: A New Vision for Faith and Politics in America by Jim Wallis (2005)
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Intelligent Design Network website
Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession by Richard Wrightman Fox (2004)
Lived Religion in America edited by David D. Hall (1997)
"Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980)
"A Note on the Concept of Belief"
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney (2005)
"This I Believe," National Public Radio radio program
"Wall of Separation," letter by Thomas Jefferson
Whose Bible Is It?: A History of the Scriptures through the Ages by Jaroslav Pelikan (2005)
The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
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