Comparative Religion category: 1410 books

The discipline of religious studies has historically tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes occurring in the context of individual performances as outlined in ethnographic or sociological studies; scholars have largely overlooked the extensive discussions of ritual mistakes that exist in the...

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes,...

*      *A God with No Name is an original take on the history of god and tells the story of his evolution from a lowly Canaanite tribal deity up to his present position as a being of universal power and prestige. The book draws on source material from the Torah, the Ugaritic Baal Cycle and the...

Extrait : « La charité, disait saint Paul [1], est patiente, elle est douce, elle est bienfaisante.» Elle n’est point envieuse, elle n’est point téméraire et précipitée, elle ne s’enfle point d’orgueil. » Elle n’est point ambitieuse, ne cherche point ses propres intérêts ; elle...

"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way. . . ." --Exodus 23:2 "To embody the transcendent is why we are here." --Sogyal Rinpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." --G....

From Shirley MacLaine's spiritual biography Out on a Limb to the teenage witches in the film The Craft, New Age and Neopagan beliefs have made sensationalistic headlines. In the mid- to late 1990s, several important scholarly studies of the New Age and Neopagan movements were published, attesting...

**A look at faith through the voices of children from varied religious backgrounds, by the Pulitzer-winning author of The Moral Intelligence of Children. A New York Times Notable Book** What do children think about when they consider God, Heaven and Hell, the value of life in the here...

Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated by the occult movements of their day. This volume explores how Occultism came to shape modernist art, literature, and film. Individual chapters examine the presence and role of Occultism in the work of such modernist luminaries as...

People in America hold a variety of competing and incompatible worldviews that are so different that it can be difficult to communicate about important issues in life. Portals offers a brief survey of seven of the major worldviews that shape American culture today. The book begins with an introduction...

Readers of all ages and beliefs may enjoy this unique, personal account of the miraculous conversion of Sister Daisy A. Delfin from her strict Roman Catholic upbringing and her aspirations of becoming a Catholic Nun in the Philippines to life as a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Daisy tells her story in her own words.

The fascinating account of how the story of the Buddha was transformed into the legend of a Christian saint. The story of Saint Josaphat, a prince who gave up his wealth and kingdom to follow Jesus, was one of the most popular Christian tales of the Middle Ages, translated into a dozen languages,...

One of Western Buddhism’s most sophisticated thinkers on one of Buddhism’s most central topics. The concept of nonduality lies at the very heart of Mahayana Buddhism. In the West, it’s usually associated with various kinds of absolute idealism in the West, or mystical traditions in the...

World Philosophies presents in one volume a superb introduction to all the world’s major philosophical and religious traditions. Covering all corners of the globe, Ninian Smart’s work offers a comprehensive and global philosophical and religious picture. In this revised and expanded second...

India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality among Western occultists through case studies. Rather than focusing on the activities of Theosophical Society, India and the Occult looks at the 'hard-core' occultism, in particular the British 20th century currents associated with Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Grant, etc.