Comparative category: 2220 books
by Hugh Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The cognitive science of religion has shown that abstract religious concepts within many established religious traditions often fail to correspond to the beliefs of the vast majority of those religions' adherents. And yet, while the cognitive approach to religion has explained why these "theologically...
Judging Jesus
World Religions’ Answers to “Who Do People Say That I Am?”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Few persons have had greater impact on history than Jesus of Nazareth. That he existed is generally conceded. Who he was remains a major issue. Since great religions claim to possess basic and unique truths about the human venture, the Christian message about Jesus challenges other great religions....
by Simon Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
In 2002 France introduced an out-of-court settlement scheme for medical accidents. The scheme guarantees compensation for the victims of the most serious medical accidents irrespective of fault and operates in parallel with existing liability rules. In this book Simon Taylor compares English and French...
by Philip Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2010
"It is this search for balance, and his real desire to speak into living situations, that sets Johnson’s work apart from earlier studies of cults and new religions. At the same time his work is innovative in other ways."
by John A. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century. He explores the effects of institutions--the city, imperial polity, bureaucratic imperatives of centralization,...
A Culture of Conspiracy
Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding...
The Laughing Jesus
Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, authors of The Jesus Mysteries and Jesus and the Lost Goddess, return with a powerful indictment of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic fundamentalism and a passionate reinterpretation of Gnostic spirituality. According to Freke and Gandy, religiously inspired acts of violence,...
Making Sense of the Secular
Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism –...
All You Want to Know But Didn't Think You Could Ask
Religions, Cults, and Popular Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Everything teens and young adults need to know about world religions and philosophies in one convenient book! As our global world becomes smaller, we encounter more religions and popular beliefs than we ever have before. This book from a high school religion teacher and a professor of religion clarifies...
by James N. Judd Ms. D. D. D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
At the beginning of this new millennium there is an increasing tension between the doctrines of both orthodox Christianity and Judaism, and the changing beliefs of modern society. This is particularly noticeable in such areas as the role of women, the human relationship with God, and life after death,...
Religion Italian Style
Continuities and Changes in a Catholic Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Italy’s traditional subcultures - Communist, Socialist, Liberal, Republican, Right-wing - have largely dissolved and yet Catholics have retained their vitality and solidity. How can the vast majority of Italians continue to maintain some connection with Catholicism? How much is the Italian situation...
God's Creativity and Human Action
Christian and Muslim Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
A record of the 2015 Building Bridges Seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, this collection of essays explores the nature of divine and human agency through themes of creation’s goal, humankind’s dignity and task, and notions of sovereignty. Part I sets the context for the book with...
by Mark Walia
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Mark Walia's A Tale of Two Cultures: Islam and the West lays out the contrasts between the Western and Islamic worlds with remarkable clarity and documentation, and concludes there are nearly irreconcilable differences between these worlds.
Jesus of Arabia
Christ through Middle Eastern Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Jesus of Arabia, the Reverend Canon Andrew Thompson introduces an unfamiliar Jesus—Jesus in the context of his home in the Middle East. Whether readers believe Jesus to be a prophet or the messiah, Thompson enhances our understanding of his work and character by looking at his social context as...