So, you say you are "spiritual but not religious"? Let’s think about that for a minute.Do you mean that you have an active spiritual life without identifying with a specific religious institution? That’s fine. But suppose religion is not about institutions. Suppose religion is an essential human activity. Then what?Imagine you are an anthropologist sent to an alien planet and assigned the task of finding what human-like institutions the inhabitants have. How would you decide whether they have religion? You’d need a filter fine enough to capture all the earthly religions from Animism to Zoroastrianism. What would that filter be? In this intellectual memoir, Collier explores the implications of his answer to that question.Kenneth Collier was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on March 26, 1945, and was raised in Wilmington, Delaware. He earned a PhD in philosophy in 1971 and taught philosophy for several years at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Leaving academia, he earned a Master of Divinity at Starr King School for the Ministry and was ordained to the Unitarian Universalist ministry in 1979. After serving several churches in both coasts, he retired and lives with his wife, Anne Anderson, in Santa Barbara, California.

Embracing Presence: An Understanding of Religion and Spirituality

Collier, Kenneth

Religion & Spirituality

Bodhi's Books

C for Engineers

Computers & Technology

Programming

PRENTICE/HALL

Because of the power-fearing drafters of the U.S. Constitution, the president’s tools for influencing Congress are quite limited. Presidents have had to look beyond the formal powers of the office to push a legislative agenda. In Between the Branches, a book of unprecedented depth, Kenneth Collier traces the evolution of White House influence in Congress over nine adminstrations, from Eisenhower to Clinton. It will enlighten students of the presidency, Congress, and all those interested in American politics.

Between The Branches: The White House Office of Legislative Affairs (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

University of Pittsburgh Press

This book traces the evolution of the speechwriting process for presidents in the White House from the administration of Franklin Roosevelt to the present. While institutionalization of the speechwriting process has often been blamed for bland presidential rhetoric, this book draws out the many varied consequences of institutionalization on the speechwriting process. Ultimately, it concludes that the institutionalization of the process has actually served the presidency well by helping presidents avoid the adverse effects of poorly chosen words.

Speechwriting in the Institutionalized Presidency: Whose Line Is It?

Sociology

Lexington Books

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