Comparative category: 2220 books
La chute de l'Esprit
cosmologie et exégèse des anciennes religions
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2016
La chute de l'Esprit est un ouvrage traitant de la cosmologie des anciennes religions et des lois universelles que ces dernières nous décrivent. La description est ici faite de la manière dont ces connaissances sont la source de toute civilisation et religion à travers l'histoire de l'humanité....
Institutionalizing Rights and Religion
Competing Supremacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Modern statesmen and political theorists have long struggled to design institutions that will simultaneously respect individual freedom of religion, nurture religion's capacity to be a force for civic good and human rights, and tame religion's illiberal tendencies. Moving past the usual focus on personal...
Hasidism Incarnate
Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically enough, this occurred even as modern Judaism increasingly dovetailed with Christianity with regard to its ethos, aesthetics, and attitude...
by Robert S. Hare
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Like philosophy? Enjoy spiritual inspiration?
You’ve got to read this eBook, The Password Primeval.
Multi-cultural philosophies. The best of several religions.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses idolatry, a contested issue that has given rise to both religious accusations and heated scholarly disputes. Idol Anxiety brings together insightful new statements from scholars in religious studies, art history, philosophy, and musicology to show...
God Loves Diversity and Justice
Progressive Scholars Speak about Faith, Politics, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the statement that declares: “God loves diversity and justice.” The multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the eleven contributors...
Theater in a Crowded Fire
Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Every summer, thousands gather from around the world in the blistering heat of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for the seven-day celebration of art, community, and fire known as Burning Man. Culminating in the spectacular incineration of a wooden effigy, this festival is grand-scale theater for self-expression,...
The Politics and Law of Democratic Transition
Caretaker Government in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Peaceful legal and political ‘changing of the guards’ is taken for granted in developed democracies, but is not evident everywhere. As a relatively new democracy, marred by long periods of military rule, Bangladesh has been encountering serious problems because of a prevailing culture of mistrust,...
Spiritual Places In and Around New York City
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Even in the most hectic, most busy, most never-sleeping city in the world, comfort for the heart, mind, and soul is only a step away. And here's your quick-and-easy guide to finding it. Spiritual Places In and Around New York City is your roadmap to the myriad spaces and places around the boroughs that...
We Are the Angels
Healing Your Past, Present, and Future with the Lords of Karma
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The possibilities for healing our energy, ourselves, and our planet are explored in WE ARE THE ANGELS, the groundbreaking book from Diane Stein. Based on the premise that the Earth and all beings are one, she masterfully presents a detailed understanding of Karma-the accrued lessons of past lifetimes...
Holy Envy
Finding God in the Faith of Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
**New York Times Bestseller
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia,...
by Ed Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Capitalism and the corporate form it creates is over-rated and neither are understood. Capitalism and that corporate form restrain your choice. They both present us with either an absence of choice or meaningless ones. Democratic Socialism doesn’t do either. Democratic Socialism means more real...
by Charles Morgan Webb
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when the utility and value of gold was under great scrutiny. Global financial circles were discussing the necessity of reducing the price of gold, pressing for the return of Britain to a gold standard and imposing a managed currency. Against...
by Gustav Cassel
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
In this book, originally published in 1936, the author charts the sequence of events which converted him from an advocate of the restoration of the gold standard to a convinced opponent. His indictment of the gold standard is comprehensive and he attributes it as the chief cause of the economic difficulties...