Comparative category: 2220 books
Louis Massignon
A Pioneer of Interfaith Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The root of the word Badaliya in Arabic, means to replace or exchange one thing for another. The French scholar and spiritual seeker, Louis Massignon (1883–1962), interpreted the word as a willingness to put oneself in the place of another, to give one's own life for the sake of someone else. This...
Ritual Gone Wrong
What We Learn from Ritual Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The discipline of religious studies has historically tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes occurring in the context of individual performances as outlined in ethnographic or sociological studies; scholars have largely overlooked the extensive discussions of ritual mistakes that exist in the...
by Jeffrey Scholes, Raphael Sassower
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching. Issues of interreligious engagement, inclusive of dialogue more specifically and relations more generally, attract widespread interest and concern. In a religiously pluralist...
by Heli Askola
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The Demographic Transformations of Citizenship examines how attempts by contemporary states to govern demographic anxieties are shaping ideas about citizenship both as a boundary-maintaining mechanism and as an ideal of equal membership. These anxieties, while most often centred upon immigration,...
The Meaning of Happiness
The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes,...
The Mirror of God
Christian Faith as Spiritual Practice--Lessons from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
What are the benefits of being a spiritual person? This is the question that James Jones explores in his newest book, The Mirror of God. Jones contends that true religious belief is not a passive process and that one must work hard towards believing in God through acts such as prayer, meditation and...
by Joanne O'Brien, Martin Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
The world's religions have emerged as one of the greatest geopolitical forces now shaping our lives. Now available in an updated edition, this authoritative atlas is an essential resource for understanding the powerful role of religion around the globe. In an accessible text packed with information,...
by Simona Grossi
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
This book studies the US Supreme Court and its current common law approach to judicial decision making from a national and transnational perspective. The Supreme Court's approach appears detached from and inconsistent with the underlying fundamental principles that ought to guide it, which often leads...
Religious Thoughts
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Religion is a small word, but it has a huge impact on both life and death. In Religious Thoughts, author James Watson takes a look at the history of religion through the years and delves into how the various manmade religions were formed and why.
Through this historical exploration of religious...
Sacred Origins of Profound Things
The Stories Behind the Rites and Rituals of the World's Religions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Charles Panati explores the origins of hundreds of religious rituals, customs, and practices in many faiths, the reasons for religious holidays and sacred symbols, and the meanings of vestments, sacraments, devotions, and prayers. Its many revelations include:
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by Brian Larnder
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
* *A God with No Name is an original take on the history of god and tells the story of his evolution from a lowly Canaanite tribal deity up to his present position as a being of universal power and prestige. The book draws on source material from the Torah, the Ugaritic Baal Cycle and the...
by James David Audlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
This ebook is the COMPLETE EDITION, three times the length of the physically published version!
"The Circle of Life" presents, in written form, traditional oral Native American sacred teachings from the Iroquois, Lakota, and other traditions. The author, James David Audlin (Distant...
Encountering World Religions
A Christian Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
The diversity of the world's religions has come to the West, but believers are often ill-equipped for any kind of serious engagement with non-Christians. In Encountering World Religions, professor and author Irving Hexham introduces all the world's major religious traditions in a brief and understandable...