Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
by Bob Passantino, Gretchen Passantino, Alan W. Gomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Belief in Satan worship is often viewed as an embarrassing throwback to the superstitions of another time. And "selling your soul to the Devil"? Nothing more than an overworked theme in literature and opera. To the contrary, Bob and Gretchen Passantino show how, in the midst of prevailing...
Essential Spirituality
The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
"Essential Spirituality beautifully articulates the benefits of spiritual living in the material world."-Dan Millman, author, Everyday Enlightenment and The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
"Deceptively simple. Its power is rooted not only in Dr. Walsh's formidable intellectual capacity...
The Soul Journey
How Shamanism, Santeria, Wicca, and Charisma Are Connected
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Shamanism, Santería, Wicca, and Charisma are connected via the trance state or ecstasy. Philpotts detail the theology and practices of shamanism, Santería, and Wicca, and then regretfully demonstrate why the proponents of these religions appeal to a form of Christianity.
The Greatest Story Never Told
An Advanced Understanding of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The story of Jesus is well-known worldwide. But have you ever wondered if it is the true and complete story of the Savior? Could there be more to the Son of God?
Author Audrey Carr addresses those questions in The Greatest Story Never Told: An Advanced Understanding of Christianity. She not...
by James Kellenberger
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This book explores religious epiphanies in which there is the appearance of God, a god or a goddess, or a manifestation of the divine or religious reality as received in human experience. Drawing upon the scriptures of various traditions, ancillary religious writings, psychological and anthropological...
Islam, Peace and Social Justice
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Our world is fraught with horrific expressions of violence and injustice, which are often justified by religious rhetoric. 'Islam, Peace, and Social Justice: A Christian Perspective' is a relevant, comprehensive, and empathetic examination of some of these social-justice challenges within the Muslim...
Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality
Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The World Parliament of Religions adopted the view that there will not be peace in this world without including peace among religions. Yet, even with the unified force of the world’s religions and wisdom traditions, this cannot be accomplished without justice among people. In one way or another,...
The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity
A Cognitive Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
In The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity: A Cognitive Anthropological Perspective, H. Sidky examines shamanism as an ancient magico-religious, divinatory, medical, and psychotherapeutic tradition found in various parts of the world. Sidky uses first-hand ethnographic fieldwork...
Absent Mother God of the West
A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book about the missing Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism chronicles a personal as well as an academic quest of an Indian woman who grew up with Kali and myriad other goddesses. It is born out of a women's studies course created and taught by the author called The Goddess in World Religions....
Christianity at the Religious Roundtable
Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Argues that Christian dialogue with other faiths is an integral part of our call to proclaim the message of Christ.
Coming Full Circle
Redefining God in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Coming Full Circle: Redefining God in the Age of Reason takes us on a journey that explores how conceptions of God have evolved over 5,000 years of human history. This evolution takes us from the Vedic Rtá, to Plato’s “forms,” Spinoza’s “substance,” and Einstein’s “mind of God.”...
World Religions and Cults Volume 3
Atheistic and Humanistic Religions
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This final book in the series focuses on the atheistic or humanistic type of religions. It would be one of the most valuable for the church in the Western World where anti-god and pro-evolution religions are beginning to explode, for it was written to refute those religions and show how they fail....
Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding
Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This invaluable volume gathers together the cumulative insight of more than fifty years of Leonard Swidler's work on dialogue. The founder and president of the Dialogue Institute, Swidler offers through experience and research his theory and tools of interreligious, intercultural, and international dialogue.
by Aaron Fehir
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Søren Kierkegaard’s Christian existentialism provides a unique framework for thinking about the problem of religious pluralism. This problem arises from the fact that there are lots of different religions in the world and each of them teaches different things. Accordingly, it is difficult to know...