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Spiritscope is a compact, portable, reference guide to world spiritual traditions: a pocket micro-telescope, or spotlight, on the world of the spirit. Offering an overview of many of the key concepts of diverse traditions, faiths, myths and viewpoints, also herein are some of the common themes of...

In the Bible, there is a drama of defining who are truly God's people—and who are not. Using an array of biblical texts from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, Not God's People explores how ancient Jews and Christians created their own identity in relation to others. The book analyzes...

THE CHOICE IS YOURS TO MAKE. The world we live in today offers a wide variety of gods to choose from. These gods range all the way from the god of the moon to the God who created the moon and every imaginable kind of god in between. When it comes down to it, not many people question the existence...

This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution and cognition of religion has been driven by and interpreted in terms of a certain kind of philosophical and methodological...

Heureux du vent nouveau qui souffle sur l'Église depuis l'élection du pape François, l'auteur, dans ce livre incisif et remuant, invite les chrétiens à faire preuve d'audace. Cet ouvrage est le fruit de 50 ans d'expérience comme prêtre. À l'heure où l'Église s'est choisi François comme...

Un questionnement pertinent sur l'origine de notre monde et des trois religions du Livre. Dans la Grèce ancienne, les gens qui peuplaient, grands philosophes compris, croyaient en l’existence de plusieurs dieux qui influaient sur leurs vies. Avaient-ils raison ? Aujourd’hui dans le monde...

Apparu en Arabie au VIIe siècle, le Coran entend récapituler la Torah et l'Évangile. Pourtant, le Livre saint des musulmans affirme offrir le portrait authentique de Jésus, détenir la réalité première de sa doctrine et en restituer la vérité co

This volume addresses the exercise of personal autonomy in contemporary situations of normative pluralism. In the Western liberal tradition, from a strictly legal and theoretical perspective the social individual has the right to exercise the autonomy of his or her will. In a context of legal plurality,...

Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.

This is the one of three books in "The Cabana Chronicles" series on apologetics, the systemtic and logical defense ot the Christian religion. Each of the books compares a different religion with Christianity.This book compares Christianity with Judaism and Islam. 

Non sono molti i libri seri sull'Islam che si possono trovare in libreria. Per questo al lettore non avvertito occorre segnalare con forza questo di Massimo Campanini: è un'ottima introduzione non solo al testo sacro dei musulmani, ma anche alla religione islamica stessa. Fabrizio Vecoli, "L'Indice" Il...

As a leading movement in contemporary Turkey with a universal educational and inter-faith agenda, the Gülen movement aims to promote creative and positive relations between the West and the Muslim world and to articulate a critically constructive position on such issues as democracy, multi-culturalism,...

Rejecting the idea of an equilibrium business cycle, this book, originally published in 1927, studies those industrial fluctuations which extend over short spans of years: cyclical fluctuations. The causes of these cycles are discussed and the consequences which result and way in which to mitigate...

Using original and archival material, The Right to Privacy traces the origins and influence of the right to privacy as a social, cultural and legal idea. Richardson argues that this right had emerged as an important legal concept across a number of jurisdictions by the end of the nineteenth century,...