Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
Beyond Agreement
Interreligious Dialogue amid Persistent Differences
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Beyond Agreement addresses the thorny question of how to make interreligious dialogue productive when the religious differences are so large that finding common ground seems unlikely. The book offers a way to think about interreligious dialogue that allows people to stay committed to their own truth...
Religious Genius
Appreciating Inspiring Individuals Across Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book sets forth a new area in the study of extraordinary individuals in religious traditions. It develops the category of “Religious Genius” as an alternative to existing categories, primarily “saint.” It constructs a model by which to appreciate these individuals, suggesting key characteristics...
Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions
Sacred Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This book explores manifestations of creativity in the religious domain. Specifically, the contributions focus on the nexus of the sacred and the creative, and the mechanisms of syncretism and (re)invention of tradition by which this manifestations occur.
The text is divided into two sections....
by Ali M. Lakhani
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
More than ever, there is an urgent need to rediscover timeless and objective principles in order to confront the issues of our times. In this collection of thirty remarkable essays, Lakhani summons us to rediscover the sacred worldview of Tradition, governed by truth, virtue, and beauty, as he addresses...
The Shaken Path
A Christian Priest's Exploration of Modern Pagan Belief and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Despite modern Paganism being one of the fastest growing new religious movements in Britain and the USA, there is no up-to-date straightforward and informed introduction to modern Paganism from a Christian perspective. The Shaken Path addresses that gap.
by Robert McKim
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
What is someone who has a perspective on religious matters to say about those who endorse other perspectives? What should they say about other religions? For example, might some of their beliefs be true? What stage are we human beings at in our religious development? Are we close to maturity, religiously...
by Marcus Grodi
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
No matter where we live in the world today, we are inundated with opinions about how to achieve happiness. Steps to Happiness is a brief guide that summarizes step by step how by grace we can attain true happiness through Jesus Christ and His Body, the Church.
by Terry C. Muck
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
This book is largely about contacts that do not feature immediate conversion, although we do discuss the question of conversion in chapter 9. It is about life in the neighborhoods where you and I live. It is there, in the neighborhoods and not in academia, that religious pluralism is having its greatest...
by Frithjof Schuon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The modern world is characterized by its fascination with relativity and individualism. Into this morass, the writings of Frithjof Schuon enter like a bolt of lightning that both clears the air and brings serenity in its wake. The perspective of the perennial philosophy restores a sense of proportion...
The Faith Club
A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
"Welcome to the Faith Club. We're three mothers from three faiths—Islam, Christianity, and Judaism—who got together to write a picture book for our children that would highlight the connections between our religions. But no sooner had we started talking about our beliefs and how to explain them...
The Ethics of Suicide
Historical Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a...
Death, Dying, and Mysticism
The Ecstasy of the End
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This volume offers a sample of reflections from scholars and practitioners on the theme of death and dying from scholars and practitioners, ranging from the Christian tradition to Hinduism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, while also touching on the themes of the afterlife and near-death experiences.
Living with the Living Dead
The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very existence, a macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture: corpses begin to stand up and walk around. The dead walked in the fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes roiled Europe. They walked in images...
Manufacturing Confucianism
Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 1998
Could it be that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius was invented by Jesuit priests? In Manufacturing Confucianism, Lionel M. Jensen reveals this very fact, demonstrating how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient ru tradition to invent the...