Comparative category: 2220 books
by David Frederick
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
I broke away from society's mold before it could imprison my dreams. I searched old books for wisdom of the ages. I sought truth that never changes, truth cast aside by today's insane media-driven politics and its imaginary bell-curve of acceptable thinking, truth that is and will always be the only...
by Alan W. Gomes, Ron Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Reincarnation, auras, and energizing crystals -- surely these are the stuff of fairy tales, nothing more. People don’t really speak to ancient Egyptian holy men, or listen seriously to Shirley MacLaine, for that matter -- do they? Drawing from a range of occult, pagan, and pseudo-scientific traditions,...
God Explained
Leaders from Thirty Different Religions Interpret God
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
All religions state that their God is loving, kind and forgiving. Yet, most religions have radicals that state, If you dont believe in my God I am going to kill you.
This book shows how thirty religious groups and denominations within these groups view God. The understanding individuals will...
America’s Bitter End in Prophecy
Predominance of the Revelation; Western Hemisphere Abolished Israel Given Fame
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
At that time I will deal with all who oppressed you; I will rescue the lame and gather those who have been scattered. I will give them praise and honour in every land they were put to shame. (Zephaniah 3:19)
This book is essential for your knowledge and confidence that God will care for you through this final storm.
by J. Allanson Picton
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Pantheism differs from the systems of belief constituting the main religions of the world in being comparatively free from any limits of period, climate, or race. For while what we roughly call the Egyptian Religion, the Vedic Religion, the Greek Religion, Buddhism, and others of similar fame have...
God's Favorites
Judaism, Christianity, and the Myth of Divine Chosenness
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
A noted biblical scholar explores how the claim of divine choice has been used from ancient times to the present to justify territorial expansion and prejudice.
The Bible describes many individuals and groups as specially chosen by God. But does God choose at all? Michael Coogan explains the...
by Robert Rite
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Why is the "New Age Movement" (the NAM) so diametrically opposed to Christianity? What is the coming one world religion? Could it be the New Age Movement; or a mixture of Catholic-Christianity with the New Age Movement and other religions; or a mutation thereof? Could it be a global...
Law and Legal Institutions of Asia
Traditions, Adaptations and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
The study of Asia and its plural legal systems is of increasing significance, both within and outside Asia. Lawyers, whether in Australia, America or Europe, or working within an Asian jurisdiction, require a sound knowledge of how the law operates across this fast-growing and diverse region. Law...
Gender Equality
Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Citizenship is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of inclusion, participation and civic membership. However, there continues to be a significant gap between formal commitments to gender equality and equal citizenship - in the laws and constitutions...
Mirrors of Justice
Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and emerging scholars to reconsider the relationships between justice, international law, culture, power, and history through...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2003
This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. It is organized into six sections corresponding to the major living religious traditions: the Indic...
by Jan Winiecki
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
These memoirs portray an individual coping with the adversities and surrealistic qualities of life and work under communism. The author recollects his adolescence, next, how he tried to avoid head-on conflicts, dissented, and how he finally became a known critic of the system. As such, he belonged...
Dark Green Religion
Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of "green religions" in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of groups—radical environmental activists,...
by Assaf Likhovski
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity. In an arid corner of the Mediterranean region in the first decades of the twentieth century, Mandate Palestine was confronting these very issues. Assaf Likhovski examines...