Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
The Crisis of the Holy
Challenges and Transformations in World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
All the world's religions are experiencing rapid change due to a confluence of social and economic global forces. Factors such as the pervasive intrusion of globalizing political and economic developments, polarized and morally equivalent presentations seen in the media, and the sense of surety demanded...
by Patrick Banon
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Premier témoin et première messagère de la résurrection de Jésus de Nazareth, Marie de Magdala, plus connue sous le nom de Marie Madeleine, est un personnage aussi essentiel que contesté dans l'histoire du christianisme. Apôtre préférée de Jésus pour les uns, pécheresse repentie pour les...
Exploring the Spirituality of the World Religions
The Quest for Personal, Spiritual and Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
This book is an insightful guide to the diverse ways that religious faith is practiced and spirituality is understood. Discussing contemporary issues such as post-modernism and the emergence of a "new paradigm," the new realities of geopolitics, globalization and global warming, this...
Where Is God?
“Man Shall Not See Me and Live” (Exodus 33:20)
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
The monotheist God evolved in the Jewish tradition and was adopted by Christianity, Islam, and Mormonism in turn: unknowable and ineffable. Religious writers have told us for thousands of years that this God is beyond all human comprehension. How can we know if a God is out there? Even if such a God...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Written by top practitioner-scholars who bring a critical yet empathetic eye to the topic, this textbook provides a comprehensive look at peace and violence in seven world religions.
Offers a clear and systematic narrative with coverage of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam,...
by Robert Peate
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
In the summer of 2011, for my teaching career, I took the classes necessary to be ESL certified. One of these, the Impact of Language and Culture in the Classroom, was led by an excellent instructor, who gave us the assignment to visit "cultures", or subcultures, with which we were uncomfortable....
by Gerald MESSADIÉ
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Il n'y a jamais eu de civilisation sans dieux : le besoin de divinité est essentiel à l'être humain.
Ce besoin a toutefois varié : il y a trente-cinq mille ans, la divinité était exclusivement féminine. Les premiers dieux masculins sont apparus avec l'invention de l'agriculture, et ils...
by Bhagavan Das
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1932
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1932
An examination of the similar truths in the religions of the world. Topic include Scientific Religion, Divine Will, the Nature of God, Evolution, Prayer, and the Sacraments.
Koranexegese zwischen Tradition und Moderne
Der Beitrag von Fazlur Rahman Malik in der modernen Koranexegese
Language: German
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 1,00, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Institut für Studien der Kultur und Religion des Islam), Veranstaltung: Tafsir-Koranexegese, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Koran ist...
A State of Mixture
Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians...
Das können Sie glauben!
Die großen Religionen dieser Welt im Selbstversuch
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Glauben Sie? Oder würden Sie gerne glauben, wissen aber nicht, an was? Dann haben Sie Glück. Denn heute kann sich jeder seinen Glauben aussuchen.Was früher undenkbar gewesen wäre, sich nämlich für eine neue Glaubensrichtung zu entscheiden, ist heute fast an der Tagesordnung. Stefan Kuzmany schlägt...
La question religieuse au XXIe siècle
Géopolitique et crise de la postmodernité
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Retour du religieux ? On assiste davantage à un "recours" au religieux au service d'intérêts économiques et politiques fort profanes. Une analyse décapante de Georges Corm.
Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, la géopolitique mondiale, nous répète-t-on, serait traversée par le " retour du...
The Fourth Secularisation
Autonomy of Individual Lifestyles
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
This book examines recent forms of secularisation to demonstrate that we are now witnessing a “fourth secularisation”: the autonomy of lifestyles. After introducing two initial secularising movements, from mythos to Logos and from Logos to Christianity, the book sets out how from Max Weber onwards...
by Sigrid Lang
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 2, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Der Dialog mit dem Islam, 3 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Christentum...