Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest.
Interreligious Dialogue and the Partition of India
Hindus and Muslims in Dialogue about Violence and Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
In a time of schism, violence and forced migration, how can God be understood? With his latest book, Catholic Benedictine hermit Mario Aguilar explores the religious identities of Hindus and Muslims in the aftermath of the 1947 partition of India. Looking at the experiences of the victims who were...
Homa Variations
The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa...
Welcoming Flowers from across the Cleansed Threshold of Hope
An Answer to Pope John Paul II's Criticism of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Welcoming Flowers is a pointed critique of the Buddhism chapter of Pope John Paul II’s 1994 best seller, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, written by the highly respected Buddhist teacher Thinley Norbu. In responding to the false charges of Buddhists’ indifference to the world and rejection of reality,...
by Ghulam Haider Aasi, Asma Afsaruddin, Osman Bakar
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and...
World Religions and Cults Volume 2
Moralistic, Mythical and Mysticism Religions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Recognize and refute the Far East false religions
What do these religions teach and why?
How can a Christian be an effective witness for Jesus Christ when presented with ideas that are so different from a biblical perspective?
How can these religions be refuted and biblical authority be...
Christianity on Trial
A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Who is God in light of astronomical and subatomic science?
How could divine inspiration of Scripture or Christs bodily resurrection be possible?
How should we see the nature of reality, free will and choice, ethics, morality and the idea of heaven and afterlife?
Christianity on Trial
by Thomas Adam, Dauda Abubakar, Yaron Ayalon
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths address the needs of the poor and the needy in...
Indian Philosophy in English
From Renaissance to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
This book publishes, for the first time in decades, and in many cases, for the first time in a readily accessible edition, English language philosophical literature written in India during the period of British rule. Bhushan's and Garfield's own essays on the work of this period contextualize the...
Christian Ashrams, Hindu Caves and Sacred Rivers
Christian-Hindu Monastic Dialogue in India 1950-1993
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In late 20th-century India, Christian-Hindu dialogue was forever transformed following the opening of Shantivanam, the first Christian ashram in the country. Mario I. Aguilar brings together the histories of the five pioneers of Christian-Hindu dialogue and their involvement with the ashram, to explore...
Mastering Sadhana
On Retreat With Anthony De Mello
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
A close friend and associate of Anthony de Mello shares for the first time not only personal conversations and reminiscences, but also de Mello's own words as recorded during a 15-day retreat in India.
Finding God Among our Neighbors
An Interfaith Systematic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
For too many students, Christian theology is learned in isolation from other religions traditions. With this, the second volume of her important work, Kristin Johnston Largen returns to expand the systematic theology she began in the original volume.
Largen places the work of Christian theology...
by Clifton, Sandra
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2011
This unique book exposes and reveals the key false teachings of New Age that are filtering into the lives of Christians leading them away from their faith. The book will equip the Christian believer with God's Word, sound theological reasoning from great leaders and ''life wisdom'' from the author who...
Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam
Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined—and continues to define today—the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner looks closely at the debates occasioned by modern Western...