Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
Tantra
Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life—Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within...
by Jean-Christophe SALADIN
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Un ouvrage indispensable pour comprendre le monde d'aujourd'hui
Un ouvrage indispensable pour comprendre le monde d'aujourd'hui
On peut s'intéresser aux religions pour de multiples raisons : quête de spiritualité, approfondissement des racines familiales, intérêt pour des cultures...
Oneness
Great Principles Shared by All Religions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"An impressive array of selections. They show common ethics that transcend the narrow confines of sectarianism."
ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
Beneath the seeming differences of all the world's great religions, lies a pool of universal truth. ONENESS collects these beliefs together for the first...
Finding Peace through Spiritual Practice
The Interfaith Amigos' Guide to Personal, Social and Environmental Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
If we want to heal our personal and planetary problems, we have to move beyond talking to spiritual practice.
Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Imam Jamal Rahman, who have become known as the Interfaith Amigos, believe truly effective interfaith dialogue can inhibit the demonization...
World Religions
An Indispensable Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
An essential introduction to eight of the world’s major religions. Gerald R. McDermott explains what you need to understand about major world religions in order to engage people of other faiths while better understanding your own Christian faith and practice. McDermott offers an overview of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A resource ideal for students as well as general readers, this two-volume encyclopedia examines the diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander spiritual experience.
• Covers both common motifs in Asian American religious culture, such as Chinese New Year festivals and mortuary rituals,...
Routledge Revivals: The Challenge of Islam (2005)
Encounters in Interfaith Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 2005, this book addresses the challenges arising from Christian-Muslim encounter and attempts to enable outsiders to understand the religion of Islam. The author offers distinctive perspectives that compliment much other literature in the study of Islam and in particular Christian-Muslim...
Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic
Invoking Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The late Victorian period witnessed the remarkable revival of magical practice and belief. Butler examines the individuals, institutions and literature associated with this revival and demonstrates how Victorian occultism provided an alternative to the tightening camps of science and religion in a social environment that nurtured magical beliefs.
La chute de l'Esprit
cosmologie et exégèse des anciennes religions
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2016
La chute de l'Esprit est un ouvrage traitant de la cosmologie des anciennes religions et des lois universelles que ces dernières nous décrivent. La description est ici faite de la manière dont ces connaissances sont la source de toute civilisation et religion à travers l'histoire de l'humanité....
Holy Envy
Finding God in the Faith of Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
**New York Times Bestseller
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia,...
by Docamali Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Organised religions and rituals are mushrooming and so are adherents and devotees.The message in most religions is “love” and yet there is great violence created in by the supremacy between religions themselves. Each attempting to compete for its proliferation at the expense of the virtues...
The New Mormon Challenge
Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Current facts about Mormonism:
Over 11 million members.
Over 60,000 full-time missionaries—more than any other single missionary-sending organization in the world.
More than 310,000 converts annually.
As many as eighty percent of converts come from Protestant backgrounds. (In Mormon circles,...
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements
Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca,...
by Marshall L. Shearer
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
From ancient myths to the world’s great religions, Dr. Shearer expands our knowledge of how humans perceive, think, and shape our relationships with the Divine. Toward Interfaith Harmony: Why People Believe or Not, and Where Differences Take Us Next teaches that by understanding ourselves, we dare to transcend mere tolerance and to celebrate the differences that make us whole.