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by Jonas Yunus Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Winner of the Belgian Prize of the Religious Book 2015. (Audience award)
To acquaint himself with the soul of Islam J.Y. Atlas had openhearted conversations with influential Muslim scholars and artists. From Jakarta to New York and from London to Lahore, this Christian theologian met with imams...
Wisdom
Folk, Arcane, Practical, Religious, Philosophical, Mystical
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This book is an investigation of wisdom in its diverse nature and types. Wisdom may be as everyday as folk adages or as arcane as a religious parable. In one form it is highly practical, and in another it addresses what is fundamentally real. In another form it is moral wisdom, and when it is psychological...
Tantra
Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life—Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within...
by Jean-Christophe SALADIN
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Un ouvrage indispensable pour comprendre le monde d'aujourd'hui
Un ouvrage indispensable pour comprendre le monde d'aujourd'hui
On peut s'intéresser aux religions pour de multiples raisons : quête de spiritualité, approfondissement des racines familiales, intérêt pour des cultures...
by Jean-Christophe SALADIN
Language: French
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Découvrir et s'initer aux grandes religions en 200 notions illustrées !
Textes du christianisme, de l'islam, du judaïsme ou du bouddhisme, mais aussi pratiques, histoire, ruptures... la collection "pour les Nuls" propose un tour d'horizon des grandes religions à travers 200 notions clés illustrées, pour découvrir ou redécouvrir les grandes religions le tout en un seul livre !
The Counter-Narratives of Radical Theology and Popular Music
Songs of Fear and Trembling
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
In this unique collection, theologians born and formed during the Cold War offer their insights and perspectives on theological relationships with such musical artists and groups as Joy Division, U2, Nick Cave, and John Coltrane. These essays demonstrate that one's personal music preferences can inform and influence professional interests.
Beyond Secularism and Jihad?
A Triangular Inquiry into the Mosque, the Manger, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Peter D. Beaulieu examines the challenge posed by—and to—modernity and historic Islam as they encounter one another. He compares the Western separation of Church and state with the unitary Islamic State, and explores the proposed cultural and societal principles of the Second Vatican Council as...
Law in the Time of Oxymora
A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant change, soft law, substantive due process, pure law, bureaucratic efficiency and global justice have in common? What connections do they share with innumerable...
by Francisco Capelo
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2019
It is probably a utopia, but is a concrete utopia and with evident practical application: a rational religion, perhaps the only one that can claim this status.
While the three famous religions of the book preserve the monolithic authority of monotheism, the oldest known religion in the History...
Oneness
Great Principles Shared by All Religions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"An impressive array of selections. They show common ethics that transcend the narrow confines of sectarianism."
ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
Beneath the seeming differences of all the world's great religions, lies a pool of universal truth. ONENESS collects these beliefs together for the first...
Finding Peace through Spiritual Practice
The Interfaith Amigos' Guide to Personal, Social and Environmental Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
If we want to heal our personal and planetary problems, we have to move beyond talking to spiritual practice.
Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Imam Jamal Rahman, who have become known as the Interfaith Amigos, believe truly effective interfaith dialogue can inhibit the demonization...
World Religions
An Indispensable Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
An essential introduction to eight of the world’s major religions. Gerald R. McDermott explains what you need to understand about major world religions in order to engage people of other faiths while better understanding your own Christian faith and practice. McDermott offers an overview of the...
by Kenneth Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This book is a study of contemporary Buddhist-Christian encounter in Thailand. Case studies, which include a Buddhist nationalist group, a charismatic church movement, and a village community, describe the variety and nature of Buddhist-Christian relations. Arising issues – nationalism, identity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A resource ideal for students as well as general readers, this two-volume encyclopedia examines the diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander spiritual experience.
• Covers both common motifs in Asian American religious culture, such as Chinese New Year festivals and mortuary rituals,...