Comparative category: 2220 books
by W. D. Wilkerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
“Mainstream Western culture more or less assumes that people who worship multiple Divine Beings are primitive, imbeciles, lunatics, cult victims, or mentally ill and in dire need of psychiatric help. Yet history shows that until the monotheist Abrahamic faiths of the near-East came to dominance,...
Death, Dying, and Mysticism
The Ecstasy of the End
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This volume offers a sample of reflections from scholars and practitioners on the theme of death and dying from scholars and practitioners, ranging from the Christian tradition to Hinduism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, while also touching on the themes of the afterlife and near-death experiences.
Conflict Transformation and Religion
Essays on Faith, Power, and Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Writing from a variety of contexts, the contributors to this volume describe the ways that conflict and their efforts to engage it constructively shape their work in classrooms and communities. Each chapter begins with a different experience of conflict—a physical confrontation, shooting and killing,...
by James Hackley
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Before we can even begin to think about rolling up our sleeves and engaging in a discussion of “What Religion is God?” or examine the question that Time Magazine posed back in 1966, “Is God Dead?” we first have to explore the question, who is God?We all have our own personal experiences...
Living with the Living Dead
The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very existence, a macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture: corpses begin to stand up and walk around. The dead walked in the fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes roiled Europe. They walked in images...
Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
Challenges and prospects
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The global financial crisis has provided an important opportunity to revisit debates about post-socialist transition and the relative success of different reform paths. Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) in particular show resilience in the wake of the international crisis with a diverse...
Manufacturing Confucianism
Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 1998
Could it be that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius was invented by Jesuit priests? In Manufacturing Confucianism, Lionel M. Jensen reveals this very fact, demonstrating how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient ru tradition to invent the...
by Clifford G. Gaddy, Barry Ickes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Bear Traps examines Russia’s longer term economic growth prospects. It argues that Russia’s growth challenges are conventionally misdiagnosed and examines the reasons why: a spatial misallocation that imposes excess costs on production and investment; distortions to human capital; an excessively...
The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China
Stumbling Towards Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decades in China. As the role of courts in society has increased so too has the amount of public complaints about the judiciary. At the same time, political...
Religions in Movement
The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less debate about the fate of religion. ‘Globalization’...
Turkey and the European Union
Facing New Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
In recent years, Turkey has become an ever more important actor on the international stage. However, Turkey-EU relations still remain in a state of flux. The EU and Turkey seem to have moved apart in their political aspirations after Turkey’s EU accession talks faced a stalemate over the Republic...
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything
Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2001
Bori, in the Mawri society of Niger, are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is also the practice of taming these wild forces in the context of possession ceremonies. In Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Adeline Masquelier offers an account of how this phenomenon intervenes—sometimes...
The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other
A Model of Global and Intercultural Pneumatology
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
There appears to be a hierarchy of cultures with the West perceiving the East as inferior, so much so that it is referred to simply as 'the Other'. Because today's world is globally interdependent, inter-woven, and integrative, it is pertinent to be open to the cultural, spiritual, and religious understandings of the East
God and Humanity in Auschwitz
Jewish-Christian Relations and Sanctioned Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
God and Humanity in Auschwitz synthesizes the findings of research developed over the last thirty years on the rise of anti-Semitism in our civilization. Donald J. Dietrich sees the Holocaust as a case study of how prejudice has been theologically enculturated. He suggests how it may be controlled...