Comparative category: 2220 books
Religion Today
A Critical Thinking Approach to Religious Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Religion Today introduces students to key concepts in religious studies through a compelling problem-solving framework. Each chapter opens with a contemporary case study that helps students engage in current religious issues, explore possible solutions to difficult religious problems today, and learn...
Judaism and Christianity:
A Contrast
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Many people focus on the similarities between Judaism and Christianity, but the religions are quite differentand its not just because one accepts Jesus as the messiah and the other does not.
The rise of Christians calling themselves messianic Jews, the successes of Christian missionaries, Jews...
The Message and the Book
Sacred Texts of the World's Religions
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Grand in its sweep, this survey of the sacred writings of the major religions of the world offers a thoughtful introduction to the ideas and beliefs upon which great faiths are built. Under the expert guidance of John Bowker, a religious scholar and author of international stature, readers explore the...
Essays On Cultural Pluralism
A Philosophical Approach To Interfaith Spirituality In The Age Of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Ours are times when religion is systematically being used: unconsciously by some and deliberately by others, in the service of politics and personal gain, rather then spirituality. However, perceptive and honest minds among all religious communities view different religions as diverse “languages...
«Succeed Here and in Eternity»
The Prosperity Gospel in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book presents a qualitative study of the «Gospel of Prosperity» preached by the Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches in Ghana, with a particular focus on its soteriological significance. The author explores the concept of the Gospel of Prosperity from a number of different angles, surveying...
The Cosmic Common Good
Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
As ecological degradation continues to threaten permanent and dramatic changes for life on our planet, the question of how we can protect our imperiled Earth has become more pressing than ever before. In this book, Daniel Scheid draws on Catholic social thought to construct what he calls the "cosmic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
After the surprising publishing success of the so-called New Atheists it has become clear that there is a market for critical discussions about religion. A religion is much more complex than a set of beliefs which cannot be proven, as the New Atheists argue. There is, in fact, much more to religion...
by Symon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Religion is a term that is often used in the media and public life without any clarification. However, it is a word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs. It is a loaded word that has a different meaning for every person; religion can be seen as a source of war and peace, love and hate, dialogue...
Interfaith Marriage in America
The Transformation of Religion and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Seamon explores the historical, theological, and societal dynamics of religious intermarriage as a way to introduce scholars to the myriad of factors that have contributed and will continue to contribute to the complete transformation of religion and Christianity in the twenty-first century.
Knowing the Unknowable God
Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas's study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish thinker...
Jesus and the Lost Goddess
The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Why Were the Teachings of the Original Christians Brutally Suppressed by the Roman Church?
• Because they portray Jesus and Mary Magdalene as mythic figures based on the Pagan Godman and Goddess
• Because they show that the gospel story is a spiritual allegory encapsulating a profound philosophy...
Being Spiritual but Not Religious
Past, Present, Future(s)
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In its most general sense, the term "Spiritual but Not Religious" denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional institutional religion and, on the other hand, feel that those same traditions contain deep wisdom about the human condition. This edited collection speaks...
by Robert Wuthnow
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade
How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may...
In the Face of the Absolute
A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Religion scholar Huston Smith called Frithjof Schuon "the most important religious thinker of [the 20th] century." In this revised edition of his classic work, perennialist author Frithjof Schuon addresses diverse aspects of the religious phenomenon with his characteristic authority. In the book’s...