Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
by Jacques Jomier
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Apparu en Arabie au VIIe siècle, le Coran entend récapituler la Torah et l'Évangile. Pourtant, le Livre saint des musulmans affirme offrir le portrait authentique de Jésus, détenir la réalité première de sa doctrine et en restituer la vérité co
by Massimo Campanini
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Non sono molti i libri seri sull'Islam che si possono trovare in libreria. Per questo al lettore non avvertito occorre segnalare con forza questo di Massimo Campanini: è un'ottima introduzione non solo al testo sacro dei musulmani, ma anche alla religione islamica stessa. Fabrizio Vecoli, "L'Indice"
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The Muslim World and Politics in Transition
Creative Contributions of the Gülen Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
As a leading movement in contemporary Turkey with a universal educational and inter-faith agenda, the Gülen movement aims to promote creative and positive relations between the West and the Muslim world and to articulate a critically constructive position on such issues as democracy, multi-culturalism,...
To Have a Center
A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
In this new edition of his powerfully original work, Schuon covers an array of metaphysical, cosmological, and anthropological subjects. In the book’s signature essay, entitled “To Have a Center”, the author surveys the ambiguous phenomenon of modern genius, showing how Western humanistic society...
Divine Entreaty
Prayers for Public and Diverse Settings
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Divine Entreaty is a great resource for all who are called upon to offer prayer for gatherings that include people from diverse backgrounds. The prayers written by Dr. Menz provide us with sensitivity training and show that he is both a verbal artist and philosopher.Suellen Mazurowski, JD; Hilton...
With Reverence for the Word
Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
This volume is the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation. The vast literature written during the medieval period is one of both great diversity and numerous cross-cultural similarities. These essays explore this rich heritage of biblical and qur'anic interpretation.
The Seductions of Pilgrimage
Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places,...
The End of God-Talk
An African American Humanist Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has stunted African American theological discourse and excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists....
by H. P. BLAVATSKY
Language: French
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 28, 2015
L'auteur démontre que le christianisme et la franc-maçonnerie n'ont pas été créés ou inventés par leurs fondateurs respectifs, mais qu'ils sont la progéniture hybride des cultes païens et des anciens mystères.
Unveiling the Garden of Love
Mystical Symbolism in Layla Majnun & Gita Govinda
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2008
Discover the common ground shared between Islamic Sufism and Hindu Bhaktism through their literary expressions. This book examines two classic love poems—The Story of Layla Majnun (written by Nezami in the Sufi tradition) and Gita Govinda (written by Jayadeva in the Hindu tradition)—and finds common experiences of love shared between these seemingly disparate cultures.
The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard
Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieval prostitutes believed to be buried there—the "Winchester Geese," women who were under the protection of the Church but denied Christian burial. In the Borough of Southwark,...
Beyond the Threshold
Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Beyond the Threshold introduces readers to afterlife beliefs and experiences in world religions. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout, including a new chapter on afterlife beliefs and practices in selected African traditions, new research on the afterlife and near-death experiences,...
New Directions for Catholic Social and Political Research
Humanity vs. Hyper-Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book offers scholars who ground their research in compassion and pacifism a new framework for the socio-political analysis of current global events. By tackling a broad range of critical themes in various disciplines, the essays compose a critical narrative of the ways in which power and violence...
Miracle Cures
Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Iconic images of medieval pilgrims, such as Chaucer’s making their laborious way to Canterbury, conjure a distant time when faith was the only refuge of the ill and infirm, and thousands traveled great distances to pray for healing. Why, then, in an age of advanced biotechnology and medicine, do...