Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
Accommodating Muslims under Common Law
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The book explores the relationship between Muslims, the Common Law and Sharīʽah post-9/11. The book looks at the accommodation of Sharīʽah Law within Western Common Law legal traditions and the role of the judiciary, in particular, in drawing boundaries for secular democratic states with Muslim...
The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey. In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature...
by Joseph Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Joseph Campbell taught Mythology to students at Sarah Lawrence College, just north of New York City, for thirty-eight years. Late in his tenure, he made a proposal to use his introductory course as the basis for the then-new field of cross-cultural studies. The proposal gives a wonderful glimpse into...
Russia's Steppe Frontier
The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
... a tremendously important contribution to the field of Russian history and the comparative study of empires and frontiers. There is no comparable work in any language.... The book presents an intricate and gripping narrative of a vast sweep of histories, weaving them together into a comprehensive...
The Children of Abraham
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
F.E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children of Abraham for a new generation of readers-at a time when the understanding of these three religious...
Divine Mother, Blessed Mother
Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
In Divine Mother, Blessed Mother, Francis X. Clooney, S.J., a scholar of Hinduism as well as a Catholic priest and theologian, offers the first full-length comparative study of Hindu goddesses and the Virgin Mary. Clooney begins by looking at three specific goddesses as they are presented and addressed...
by David W Shenk
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Islam and Christianity seem to be at opposite and unbridgeable poles, both committed to world mission. Given the political tension and violent acts that sometimes surround these two major world religions, it is essential for both sides to understand the otherits history, beliefs, traditions, and vision...
Discourse and the Construction of Society
Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish Civil...
by Elijah Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
This title looks at a comparative aspect of how many religions have a timetable to expected events of the future and that although they seem to be addressing different references, they have striking similar and overlapping commonality. How time is told by the different worlds, and the relevance to...
by Harry Oldmeadow
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
This is the first comprehensive study of the intellectual and spiritual message of world-renowned philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998), the foremost spokesman of the “Perennialist” or “Traditionalist” school of comparative religious thought. Intended primarily as an introductory guide to Schuon’s...
Interreligious Learning
Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Taking the theme of learning as central to the responsible practice of interfaith dialogue, Michael Barnes discusses a Christian spirituality which builds on virtues of hospitality and the welcoming of other traditions, whilst maintaining the importance of difference and particularity in the search...
Possession, Power and the New Age
Ambiguities of Authority in Neoliberal Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book provides a new sociological account of contemporary religious phenomena such as channelling, holistic healing, meditation and divination, which are usually classed as part of a New Age Movement. Drawing on his extensive ethnography carried out in the UK, alongside comparative studies in...
Philosophies of Happiness
A Comparative Introduction to the Flourishing Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
What does it mean to be truly happy? In Philosophies of Happiness, Diana Lobel provides a rich spectrum of arguments for a theory of happiness as flourishing or well-being, offering a global, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective on how to create a vital, fulfilling, and significant life....
by John R. Mabry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
From December 2013 through March 2014, Christian pastor John Mabry went on a most amazing pilgrimage -- to visit the most significant sites of the Buddha's life and to reflect deeply on what he saw, in conversation with his own faith. From there, his journey took him to Nepal, Thailand, Taiwan, and...