Comparative category: 2220 books
by Ali M. Lakhani
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
More than ever, there is an urgent need to rediscover timeless and objective principles in order to confront the issues of our times. In this collection of thirty remarkable essays, Lakhani summons us to rediscover the sacred worldview of Tradition, governed by truth, virtue, and beauty, as he addresses...
Loss and Hope
Global, Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
What are the spiritual consequences of abuse and trauma? Where is God? How and why does such senseless suffering occur? What is the relationship between loss and hope? What are the benefits of examining loss and hope from an interreligious focus? These are some of the questions addressed in this volume,...
The Shaken Path
A Christian Priest's Exploration of Modern Pagan Belief and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Despite modern Paganism being one of the fastest growing new religious movements in Britain and the USA, there is no up-to-date straightforward and informed introduction to modern Paganism from a Christian perspective. The Shaken Path addresses that gap.
by Robert McKim
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
What is someone who has a perspective on religious matters to say about those who endorse other perspectives? What should they say about other religions? For example, might some of their beliefs be true? What stage are we human beings at in our religious development? Are we close to maturity, religiously...
by Marcus Grodi
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
No matter where we live in the world today, we are inundated with opinions about how to achieve happiness. Steps to Happiness is a brief guide that summarizes step by step how by grace we can attain true happiness through Jesus Christ and His Body, the Church.
by Terry C. Muck
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
This book is largely about contacts that do not feature immediate conversion, although we do discuss the question of conversion in chapter 9. It is about life in the neighborhoods where you and I live. It is there, in the neighborhoods and not in academia, that religious pluralism is having its greatest...
Handbook of Religion
A Christian Engagement with Traditions, Teachings, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This comprehensive handbook provides a Christian perspective on religion and its many manifestations around the world. Written by top religion scholars from a broad spectrum of Christianity, it introduces world religions, indigenous religious traditions, and new religious movements. Articles explore...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of...
by Frithjof Schuon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The modern world is characterized by its fascination with relativity and individualism. Into this morass, the writings of Frithjof Schuon enter like a bolt of lightning that both clears the air and brings serenity in its wake. The perspective of the perennial philosophy restores a sense of proportion...
The Faith Club
A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
"Welcome to the Faith Club. We're three mothers from three faiths—Islam, Christianity, and Judaism—who got together to write a picture book for our children that would highlight the connections between our religions. But no sooner had we started talking about our beliefs and how to explain them...
by Craig Hawkins, Alan W. Gomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The twentieth century has seen a remarkable revival of "the Old Religion," as adherents of New-paganism call the native religious traditions of Europe and tribal traditions from North America that predated Christianity. Many neo-pagan groups identify with Celtic (Druidic), Egyptian, Native...
by Aaron J. Schieding
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
"This is a marvelous look at our souls and their links to unseen dimensions around us through the eyes of eminent scholars and religious leaders!...a book that is highly readable, intensely thought-provoking....It's a tall order to integrate and explain belief systems and spiritual beings, but Schieding...
The Ethics of Suicide
Historical Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a...
Contested Secessions
Rights, Self-determination, Democracy, and Kashmir
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
This book approaches contested secession and the more Western concept of consensual secession from a political theory perspective. In particular, it focuses on the Kashmir issue as a form of contested secession and examines whether the Kashmiri people have a ‘right’ to secede.