Comparative category: 2220 books
by Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
This book is about consequences of religion more than whether Christ rose from the dead (Krishna, Osiris, Attis of Phrygia, Dionysus, all of whom besides being born on December 25th from a virgin mother did "Resurrect"), or whether the verses of the Qur’an are exactly the words of Allah....
A New Religious America
How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today
The 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.
There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles, home to the greatest variety of Buddhists...
Understanding World Religions
A Road Map for Justice and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Understanding World Religions introduces students to major worldviews—including Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Native American, and Marxist—through the lens of justice and peace. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout.
After an introduction to key themes...
Sacred Schisms
How Religions Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Schism (from the Greek 'to split') refers to a group that breaks away from another, usually larger organisation and forms a new organisation. Though the term is typically confined to religious schisms, it can be extended to other kinds of breakaway groups. Because schisms emerge out of controversies,...
Paganism
An Introduction to Earth- Centered Religions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A comprehensive guide to a growing religious movement. If you want to study Paganism in more detail, this book is the place to start. Based on a course in Paganism that the authors have taught for more than a decade, it is full of exercises, meditations, and discussion questions for group or individual...
by Ankerberg, John, Weldon
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
From blood transfusions to salvation by works, John Ankerberg and John Weldon expose the unorthodox doctrines that put Jehovahs Witnesses at risk physically and spiritually. With its easytofollow, questionandanswer format, this book allows readers to quickly discover: Who founded Jehovahs Witnesses and...
Goddesses and the Divine Feminine
A Western Religious History
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture—from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a...
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque
Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some...
by Steven Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A Choctaw Indian Christian bishop explores the teachings of the Bible through the lens of Native American tradition.
Steven Charleston—an Episcopal bishop and Choctaw native—takes a unique and provocative look into the “vision quests” of Jesus, and considers Christian biblical interpretation...
Terror in the Mind of God, Fourth Edition
The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion’s power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it?
Terror in the Mind of God, now in its fourth edition, answers these questions and more. Thoroughly...
Religion
An Anthropological View
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The classic anthropological analysis of religion from a pioneer in the field
From the preface:
“Scientific efforts to learn just what are the forms and functions of religion have not been few; it is the purpose of this book to review some of them and to synthesize the suggestions...
Finding God among Our Neighbors
An Interfaith Systematic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Students of theology live in a world defined by interreligious dialogue. This supplemental theology text prepares students for the real task of understanding and articulating their Christian beliefs in a religiously and culturally diverse world.
Concentrating on the anchoring subjects of God,...
Interreligious Studies
A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The notion of Interreligious Studies signals a new academic perspective on the study of religion, characterized by a relational approach. Interreligious Studies defines the essential features of interreligious studies compared with alternative conceptions of religious studies and theology. The book...
by Bernard Levine
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
What is the truth about sex through a hole in the sheet?
What are the Rabbis doing with the foreskins that are cut off?
Why do women have to show their panties to a Rabbi?
Did you know that the Rabbi sucks the blood of the circumcised penis of a baby?
Have you heard there is a special way that Jews...