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Restless Souls
The Making of American Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism—all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. Tracing out the country’s Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the last two centuries, Restless...
by Leigh E. Schmidt, Sally M. Promey
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
An enlightening look at the surprising connections between spirituality and progressive thought in the United States.
Religious liberalism in America is often associated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. This book, however, draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that...
Legal Anthropology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Legal Anthropology: An Introduction offers an initial overview of the challenging debates surrounding the cross-cultural analysis of legal systems. Equal parts review and criticism, James M. Donovan outlines the historical landmarks in the development of the discipline, identifying both strengths...
Send My Roots Rain
A Spirituality of Justice and Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Megan McKenna has long been well known in the Catholic community as a writer, speaker, and teacher. In her lectures and writings, McKenna focuses on the central place of storytelling in the spiritual life and on the role of the storyteller as a teacher. She explores the illuminating power of stories,...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Religions, 4th Edition
A Revealing Comparison of the Faiths That Shape the Lives of Millions
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The updated guide to differences - and similarities - of faiths around the world.
In this revised and updated edition of the popular guide to the many faiths followed around the world, modern and ancient religions are extensively covered as well as New Thought religions. This edition also now...
by Alan W. Gomes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this introduction to the Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements, Dr. Gomes defines the characteristics of a "cult of Christianity" and why such a group subverts the search for spiritual truth. He explains the emotional and spiritual appeal of cults, who is susceptible, and the...
God's Other Children
Personal Encounters with Love, Holiness, and Faith in Sacred India
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
God’s Other Children by Bradley Malkovsky is a charming spiritual travelogue that tells the tale of a Catholic religious scholar who goes to India to study Hinduism and winds up falling in love with and marrying a Muslim.
In the tradition of The Faith Club, Malkvosky, who holds a degree in...
Beyond Violence
Religious Sources of Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In an age of terrorism and other forms of violence committed in the name of religion, how can religion become a vehicle for peace, justice, and reconciliation? And in a world of bitter conflicts-many rooted in religious difference-how can communities of faith understand one another?
The essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In this unprecedented profile of the religions of Southeast Asia, scholars from around the world explore the faiths, spiritual practices, and theological dogmas of the region. The book contains a fascinating collection of accurate, detailed articles; informative sidebars; and an extensive list of...
Reading the Abrahamic Faiths
Rethinking Religion and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Rethinking religion and literature in a series of chapters by leading international scholars, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a dialogue between Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Post-Secular literary cultures.
Literary studies has absorbed religion as another interdisciplinary mode of inquiry...
by Philip Koehn
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Little Book of Beliefs is an express tour of belief topics for curious minds. Is there a God? What is the purpose of life? Do humans have souls? Why do bad things happen to good people and vice versa? Life is a mystery and we're still guessing about its meaning and purpose.Our personal...
More Than Allegory
On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the prisms of religious myth, truth and belief, respectively....
by Roy Zuck
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Understanding what Jehovah's Witnesses teach and believe is crucial to counteract their aggressive evangelism campaigns. Roy Zuck offers this letter in the absence of direct, compassionate literature to hand to them to explain Scriptural truth and the difference between their faith and Christianity....
New Birth or Rebirth?
Jesus Talks with Krishna
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Ultimate truth. The destiny of souls. The individual heart. Can Krishna and Jesus agree on anything?
This is what Subramaniam, a real-life Hindu of the twentieth century, wonders as he enters a fictitious conversation between two religious figures who have changed the lives of millions. As...