Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
Sourcebook of the World's Religions
An Interfaith Guide to Religion and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Now in its third edition, this is the most comprehensive work available on the rich variety of paths available to today's spiritual seekers. More than an academic reference, it explores how religions can collaborate to help the world. Essays exploring the realm of building an interfaith community...
by James R. White
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A Look Inside the Sacred Book of One of the World's Fastest-Growing Religions
What used to be an exotic religion of people halfway around the world is now the belief system of people living across the street. Through fair, contextual use of the Qur'an as the primary source text, apologist James...
by Lincoln A. Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, and yet Americans have often thought that people’s faith determines their eternal destinies. The result is that Americans switch religions more often than any other nation. Lincoln Mullen traces the history of the distinctively American idea that religion is a matter of individual choice.
What the Qur'an Meant
And Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text
Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him...
The Tent of Abraham
Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
In recent years there has been an explosion of curiosity and debate about Islam and about the role of religion, both in the world and in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The numerous books published on these questions speak to issues of politics, history, or global security. None speaks to the heart and...
Thinking Biblically about Islam
Genesis, Transfiguration, Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
In this careful double exposition of the Bible and Islam, Ida Glaser and Hannah Kay emphasise godly attitudes, loving action and a deep appreciation of God’s grace and goodness as essential traits of any Christian. The authors walk the reader through two underlying frameworks necessary to think...
The World's Wisdom
Sacred Texts of the World's Religions
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources!
In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind....
Call to Apostleship
Reflections on the Tablets of the Divine Plan
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Call to Apostleship analyzes the significance and impact the Tablets of the Divine Plan have had on the spread of the Bahai Faith and on the world. The Tablets of the Divine plan are a series of fourteen letters (tablets) that Abdul-Baha, the son of the founder of the Bahai Faith, Bahaullah, wrote...
And Live Rejoicing
Chapters from a Charmed Life — Personal Encounters with Spiritual Mavericks, Remarkable Seekers, and the World's Great Religious Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Spiritual trailblazer Huston Smith has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytelling flair as he has in these pages. Few have done as much as Smith to explore and illuminate the world’s...
by Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
This book is about consequences of religion more than whether Christ rose from the dead (Krishna, Osiris, Attis of Phrygia, Dionysus, all of whom besides being born on December 25th from a virgin mother did "Resurrect"), or whether the verses of the Qur’an are exactly the words of Allah....
Goddesses and the Divine Feminine
A Western Religious History
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture—from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a...
That's Just Your Interpretation
Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
In our relativistic society, Christians more than ever are bombarded by tough questions about their faith. Author Paul Copanhas observed that many of these questions emerge as "anti-truth claims" that are part of today's skeptical mind-set.
Christians defending their faith often hear...
Comparing Christianity with World Religions
The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The world has always been a melting pot of beliefs, but now more than ever, your neighbor may be part of a differing world religion.
In Comparing Christ with World Religions, the truths of Christianity are compared to key beliefs of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and tribal religions. This...
by Robert Rite
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Did you know that Science, Astronomy, and physics actually prove the Bible's accuracy? Numbers, the Human body, our DNA, and even the heavenly bodies all point to a creator.
There seems to be no contradictions between what modern society has discovered about our world and the cosmos and...