Comparative category: 2220 books
Our Religions
The Seven World Religions Introduced by Preeminent Scholars from Each Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
An essential introduction to the world's living religions by experts from each tradition -- published in conjunction with the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions.
Understanding World Religions
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of...
Four Testaments
Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: Sacred Scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions—the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita—inviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice...
Call to Apostleship
Reflections on the Tablets of the Divine Plan
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Call to Apostleship analyzes the significance and impact the Tablets of the Divine Plan have had on the spread of the Bahai Faith and on the world. The Tablets of the Divine plan are a series of fourteen letters (tablets) that Abdul-Baha, the son of the founder of the Bahai Faith, Bahaullah, wrote...
by Leo Schaya
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Leo Schaya (1916-1986) was a brilliant author and editor whose only book to appear in English was the much-acclaimed The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah, which is often cited in books on Jewish mysticism. This new book, Universal Aspects of the Kabbalah and Judaism, is a collection of writings by Schaya,...
Tales of Wonder
Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
“In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him and shared his journey—a Who’s Who of 20th century spiritual America: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary,...
And Live Rejoicing
Chapters from a Charmed Life — Personal Encounters with Spiritual Mavericks, Remarkable Seekers, and the World's Great Religious Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Spiritual trailblazer Huston Smith has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytelling flair as he has in these pages. Few have done as much as Smith to explore and illuminate the world’s...
Pilgrim
Risking the Life I Have to Find the Faith I Seek
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Lee Kravitz is adrift.
Shaken deeply after 9/11 and the loss of his job, he begins to feel the pull toward rediscovering his spirituality—a yearning long-buried since young adulthood. But in this he’s alone—his wife doesn’t understand why their family life can’t provide what he needs,...
Religions and Nonviolence: The Rise of Effective Advocacy for Peace
The Rise of Effective Advocacy for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Covering the nonviolence traditions in all the major religions as well as the contributions of religious traditions to major nonviolent practices, this book addresses theories of nonviolence, considers each religion individually, and highlights what discrete religious perspectives have in common.
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Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Airy Nothings
Religion and the Flight from Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Even as the number of unbelievers continues to rise, religion in America still gets unwarrantably good press. The tenets and teachings, however nonsensical, of each and every “community of faith” may not be attacked. Secular academics who would never be caught in a synagogue, church, or mosque...
by Kurt Van Gorden, Alan W. Gomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
With their strong emphasis on traditional family values, education, discipline, and service, Mormons sound and look more "Christian" than many believers. At first glance, there seems to be little to criticize in what they say or do. But peel back the façade, and you find a cult with its...
by Ross Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
More than a belief system, Mormonism is a cultural identity that shapes the worldview, values and lifestyle of those involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In this digital short Ross Anderson helps Christians to understand Mormon life and culture, answers the senstive question...
Roman Catholics and Shi'i Muslims
Prayer, Passion, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
This timely work explores two influential religious traditions that might seem to have little in common: Twelver Shi'i Islam and Roman Catholicism. With the worldwide rise of religious fundamentalism, it is imperative that religious movements such as Christianity and Islam begin working harder to...