Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
The Religions Next Door
How Journalist Misreport Religion and What They Should Be Telling Us.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
The Religions Next Door: What we need to know about Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam - and what reporters are missing will educate readers as to the truth about world religions that the media often misrepresent. Our neighborhoods are full of religious diversity these days, but the media would...
Disciples of All Nations:Pillars of World Christianity
Pillars of World Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Long the dominant religion of the West, Christianity is now rapidly becoming the principal faith in much of the postcolonial world--a development that marks a momentous shift in the religion's very center of gravity. In this eye-opening book, Lamin Sanneh examines the roots of this "post-Western awakening"...
by Paulin Batairwa Kubuya
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For practitioners, the achievement...
None of the Above
How the Unaffiliated are Redefining Religion and Keeping Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The notion of redefining religion’s role in our lives is not an academic exercise. It is an urgent modern imperative. This book confronts all religious dogma. It challenges the idea and practice of the need for a middle man between man and God. It invites the reader to consider the modern rise of the...
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.
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’...
Neighboring Faiths
A Christian Introduction to World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
For all who want to understand the religious faiths of their neighbors and coworkers, Winfried Corduan offers an introduction to the religions of the world. His survey covers major and minor religions including Judaism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, African traditional religions, Native American religion,...
Religion
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This innovative study proves to the heart of religion, examining issues from the origins of religious belief to life after death.
Of the Land and the Spirit
The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Lord Northbourne (1896-1982) was a Renaissance man: a farmer, painter, Olympic rower, translator, and a widely respected author on both ecology and religion. His first book coined the term “organic farming”, and he worked with E. F. Schumacher to bring greater awareness to ecological concerns. His...
Passing on the Faith
Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
From the beginning, the Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—have stressed the importance of transmitting religious identity from one generation to the next. Today, that sustaining mission has never been more challenged. Will young people have a faith to guide them? How can faith...
Provincial Hinduism
Religion and Community in Gwalior City
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Provincial Hinduism explores intersecting religious worlds in an ordinary Indian city that remains close to its traditional roots, while bearing witness to the impact of globalization. Daniel Gold looks at modern religious life in the central Indian city of Gwalior, drawing attention to the often...
When Prayer Fails
Faith Healing, Children, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Relying on religious traditions that are as old as their faith itself, many devout Christians turn to prayer rather than medicine when their children fall victim to illness or injury. Faith healers claim that their practices are effective in restoring health - more effective, they say, than modern...
Making the American Religious Fringe
Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news and special interest magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to analyze how and why mass-market magazines depicted religions...
by John Bellaimey
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
In this full color book, John Bellaimey explores twenty of the world’s religions from Hinduism to Rastafarianism, following Karen Armstrong’s developmental model of religion as a human cultural dimension. Beginning with a section on the roots of the “tree of world religions,” Bellaimey considers...