Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
by Kathryn Adams Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Wisdom's Choice is designed to help individuals connect with their own inner wisdom. Think of it as a kind of ''spirit world's little instruction book'' full of simple insights anyone can use on the power of thought, forgiveness, compassion, and unconditional love. This remarkable little book can serve...
Mythography
The Study of Myths and Rituals
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field. William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind. Extensively rewritten and completely restructured,...
Theology and California
Theological Refractions on California’s Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Exploring California as a theological place, this book renders critical engagement with significant Californian religious and theological phenomena and the inherent theological impulses within major Californian cultural icons. Harnessing conceptual tools inherent to theology, through theological reflection,...
by Kyle Parton
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
2,500 years ago, aspiring meditators had to scale treacherous mountains to find a guru who might guide them to spiritual awakening. Today’s spiritual practitioners have a much different problem: The marketplace is supersaturated with books, blogs, teachers, temples, and workshops—all who seem...
Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy
Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Drawing from research conducted in Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda, Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy offers a deeper understanding of how Christian and Islamic faith communities affect the political attitudes of those who belong to them and, in turn, prospects for liberal democracy. While many...
by Mark Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Jesus is a revered messenger of God for Muslims and Lord and Savior for Christians. How can Muslims and Christians relate to each other when this figure from the past attracts them yet drives them apart? Jesus is the very center of the Christian faith, but for Muslims he is a faithful witness to God,...
Toward a Theology of Eros
Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfigure doctrinal tropes? Avoiding the well-worn path of sexual moralizing while also departing decisively...
Promises Fulfilled
Christianity, Islam, and the Bahai Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Promises Fulfilled examines the promises made in both the Bible and the Koran concerning the coming of the Promised One, and sheds light on the principal objections that prevent Christians and Muslims from accepting the Bahai Faith. The book also discusses some of the verses in the Bible and Koran that...
by Patrick Banon
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Reflet de la pensée religieuse populaire, à la frontière entre folklore, mythologie et foi, cette biographie " non autorisée " écrite à la manière d'un roman dresse le portrait d'un monde chaotique, à la veille du changement de notre ère, et révèle, pour la première fois, la vie " censurée...
Wicca's Charm
Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
How Wiccan Spirituality Is Filling a Spiritual Hunger in America
Hundreds of thousands of people practice Wicca and other forms of modern Pagan spirituality in America today, and journalist Catherine Edwards Sanders wanted to understand why such belief systems are rapidly attracting followers....
Judging Jesus
World Religions’ Answers to “Who Do People Say That I Am?”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Few persons have had greater impact on history than Jesus of Nazareth. That he existed is generally conceded. Who he was remains a major issue. Since great religions claim to possess basic and unique truths about the human venture, the Christian message about Jesus challenges other great religions....
by Philip Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2010
"It is this search for balance, and his real desire to speak into living situations, that sets Johnson’s work apart from earlier studies of cults and new religions. At the same time his work is innovative in other ways."
by John A. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century. He explores the effects of institutions--the city, imperial polity, bureaucratic imperatives of centralization,...
A Culture of Conspiracy
Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding...