Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
The Precisianist Strain
Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline. The Precisianist...
Empires of God
Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Religion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world. Religious passions and conflicts drove much of the expansionist energy of post-Reformation Europe, providing both a rationale and a practical mode of organizing the dispersal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of...
Gandhi and Bin Laden
Religion at the Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
No two figures could seem further removed than Mohandas K. Gandhi and Osama bin Laden. Gandhi advocated an inclusive religious perspective, and believed that the highest ideals in religion led to the path of absolute nonviolence. In contrast, Bin Laden has concocted a militant and exclusive interpretation...
Then We'll Sing a New Song
African Influences on America's Religious Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Then We'll Sing a New Song is a fascinating examination of how African religions have shaped belief and practices in America. Not just the story of the development of African American religions or the black church, this book tells the often-unrecognized, but important story of how African religions...
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 Sasha Budhrani
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This book explores the connection between rituals, dogmas, beliefs and practices which divide us into different religions. Cultivating inner meaning may unite every being into one Divinity.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry, comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different philosophical methodologies, cross disciplinary boundaries,...
This Sacred Earth
Religion, Nature, Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2003
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.
The Cabana Chronicles Book Two Conversations About God
The Cabana Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
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.
by Joaquim Huang
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Can anyone make a truly valid claim that his religion offers the only way to salvation? Are the teachings of Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Taoism, and Confucianism incompatible with one another? This book presents formidable evidence from the scriptures that all religions display a fundamental...
The New Sciences of Religion
Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Performing a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena, Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the 'outside in' and the 'bottom up' without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions.
by Timothy Dowley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This leading textbook for world religions is now available in a more concise version. Many of the features of Introduction to World Religions are retained in this volume but with focus on the religious traditions themselves. The section on religions of antiquity has been removed and key content in...
Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors
An Interreligious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has been a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth-century. Anh Q. Tran offers the first English translation of the recently discovered 1752 manuscript Tam Giáo Chu Vong (The Errors of the Three Religions). Structured...
Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa
Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. Today, Hindus and Catholics assert...