Comparative category: 2220 books
Religions/Globalizations
Theories and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been...
Legal Pluralism in Action
Dispute Resolution and the Kurdish Peace Committee
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This groundbreaking book contributes to, and refocuses, public debates about the incorporation of plural approaches into the English legal system. The book specifically advances the recent, largely theoretical, discussions of Sharia legal practice by examining a secular method of dispute resolution...
Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy
Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Drawing from research conducted in Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda, Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy offers a deeper understanding of how Christian and Islamic faith communities affect the political attitudes of those who belong to them and, in turn, prospects for liberal democracy. While many...
by Mark Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Jesus is a revered messenger of God for Muslims and Lord and Savior for Christians. How can Muslims and Christians relate to each other when this figure from the past attracts them yet drives them apart? Jesus is the very center of the Christian faith, but for Muslims he is a faithful witness to God,...
Strangers Next Door?
Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
There are no two neighbouring countries anywhere in the world that are more different than Indonesia and Australia. They differ hugely in religion, language, culture, history, geography, race, economics, worldview and population (Indonesia, 270 million, Australia less than 10 per cent of that). In...
Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region
Towards Institution Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of ASEAN’s...
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements
Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca,...
Toward a Theology of Eros
Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfigure doctrinal tropes? Avoiding the well-worn path of sexual moralizing while also departing decisively...
Promises Fulfilled
Christianity, Islam, and the Bahai Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Promises Fulfilled examines the promises made in both the Bible and the Koran concerning the coming of the Promised One, and sheds light on the principal objections that prevent Christians and Muslims from accepting the Bahai Faith. The book also discusses some of the verses in the Bible and Koran that...
by Patrick Banon
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Reflet de la pensée religieuse populaire, à la frontière entre folklore, mythologie et foi, cette biographie " non autorisée " écrite à la manière d'un roman dresse le portrait d'un monde chaotique, à la veille du changement de notre ère, et révèle, pour la première fois, la vie " censurée...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
What is the nature and impact of faith and religion in prison? This book summarizes contemporary and cutting-edge research on religion in correctional contexts, enabling a scientific understanding of how prisoners use faith in their everyday lives.
• Presents an international scope that covers...
Commonwealth Caribbean Law of Trusts
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The law of trusts is a subject of considerable importance in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Traditional areas, such as testamentary trusts, resulting and constructive trusts, and charitable trusts, are now fully incorporated into the mainstream substantive law of the region, while the principles associated...
by Marshall L. Shearer
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
From ancient myths to the world’s great religions, Dr. Shearer expands our knowledge of how humans perceive, think, and shape our relationships with the Divine. Toward Interfaith Harmony: Why People Believe or Not, and Where Differences Take Us Next teaches that by understanding ourselves, we dare to transcend mere tolerance and to celebrate the differences that make us whole.
Wicca's Charm
Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
How Wiccan Spirituality Is Filling a Spiritual Hunger in America
Hundreds of thousands of people practice Wicca and other forms of modern Pagan spirituality in America today, and journalist Catherine Edwards Sanders wanted to understand why such belief systems are rapidly attracting followers....