Comparative category: 2220 books
Beyond Religion
A Personal Program for Building a Spiritual Life Outside the Walls of Traditional Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Let David Elkins, psychologist and former minister, show you how to find authentic, soul-nurturing spirituality outside church or temple walls. Discover your personal path to the sacred and explore new ways to bring nonreligious spirituality into your life.
Absent Mother God of the West
A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book about the missing Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism chronicles a personal as well as an academic quest of an Indian woman who grew up with Kali and myriad other goddesses. It is born out of a women's studies course created and taught by the author called The Goddess in World Religions....
The Sacred Universe
Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an...
Miracles
Wonder and Meaning in World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Despite the dominance of scientific explanation in the modern world, at the beginning of the twenty-first century faith in miracles remains strong, particularly in resurgent forms of traditional religion. In Miracles, David L. Weddle examines how five religious traditions—Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism,...
Refractions of the Scriptural
Critical Orientation as Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Refractions of the Scriptural is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that seeks to construct a new field of scholarly inquiry with scriptures as a fraught category, analytical wedge, and site for excavation and problematization. The book focuses on the ways in which individual and social bodies...
Christianity at the Religious Roundtable
Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Argues that Christian dialogue with other faiths is an integral part of our call to proclaim the message of Christ.
Coming Full Circle
Redefining God in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Coming Full Circle: Redefining God in the Age of Reason takes us on a journey that explores how conceptions of God have evolved over 5,000 years of human history. This evolution takes us from the Vedic Rtá, to Plato’s “forms,” Spinoza’s “substance,” and Einstein’s “mind of God.”...
World Religions and Cults Volume 3
Atheistic and Humanistic Religions
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This final book in the series focuses on the atheistic or humanistic type of religions. It would be one of the most valuable for the church in the Western World where anti-god and pro-evolution religions are beginning to explode, for it was written to refute those religions and show how they fail....
Dialogue for Interreligious Understanding
Strategies for the Transformation of Culture-Shaping Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This invaluable volume gathers together the cumulative insight of more than fifty years of Leonard Swidler's work on dialogue. The founder and president of the Dialogue Institute, Swidler offers through experience and research his theory and tools of interreligious, intercultural, and international dialogue.
by Aaron Fehir
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Søren Kierkegaard’s Christian existentialism provides a unique framework for thinking about the problem of religious pluralism. This problem arises from the fact that there are lots of different religions in the world and each of them teaches different things. Accordingly, it is difficult to know...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
The past quarter-century has seen an explosion of interest in the history of science and religion. But all too often the scholars writing it have focused their attention almost exclusively on the Christian experience, with only passing reference to other traditions of both science and faith. At a...
Beyond Agreement
Interreligious Dialogue amid Persistent Differences
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Beyond Agreement addresses the thorny question of how to make interreligious dialogue productive when the religious differences are so large that finding common ground seems unlikely. The book offers a way to think about interreligious dialogue that allows people to stay committed to their own truth...
Religious Genius
Appreciating Inspiring Individuals Across Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book sets forth a new area in the study of extraordinary individuals in religious traditions. It develops the category of “Religious Genius” as an alternative to existing categories, primarily “saint.” It constructs a model by which to appreciate these individuals, suggesting key characteristics...
Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions
Sacred Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This book explores manifestations of creativity in the religious domain. Specifically, the contributions focus on the nexus of the sacred and the creative, and the mechanisms of syncretism and (re)invention of tradition by which this manifestations occur.
The text is divided into two sections....