Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
To Live Ancient Lives
The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
To Live Ancient Lives signals a sharp redirection of Puritan studies. It provides the first comprehensive study of Puritan primitivism, defined as the drive to recover and return to church and society the ordinances of biblical times. This work traces a campaign to purify English Christianity of postapostolic...
Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?
Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world.
Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious...
Jesus and Buddha
The Parallel Sayings
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
God Against the Gods
The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
"Lively… points out that the conflict between the worship of many gods and the worship of one true god never disappeared." —Publishers Weekly
"Jonathan Kirsch has written another blockbuster about the Bible and its world." —David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief of the...
Christians and Muslims
From History to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
On the Sunday following September 11, 2001, Reverend Kenneth Cragg worshipped as usual in his sanctuary, located directly across the street from a Muslim mosque. In a gracious act of good faith, the Islamic congregation invited the Christian congregation to join them after worship for an introduction...
Jesus and Muhammad
Parallel Tracks, Parallel Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Now, in this intriguing volume, F.E. Peters offers a clear and compelling analysis of the parallel lives of Jesus and Muhammad, the first such in-depth comparison in print. Like...
by Mona Siddiqui
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and revelatory book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui explores the theological links between the two religions, showing how Islamic thought has approached...
One Nation, Under Gods
A New American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A groundbreaking new look at the story of America
At the heart of the nation's spiritual history are audacious and often violent scenes. But the Puritans and the shining city on the hill give us just one way to understand the United States. Rather than recite American history from a Christian...
The Experience of God
Being, Consciousness, Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion-God-frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley...
by Joseph Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In this fascinating overview of the shape of myths throughout human civilization’s expansion, Joseph Campbell lays out an overview of both the origins and the evolution of our myths.
Campbell wrote this essay just as he was launching his seminal Masks of God series. “The Historical Development...
When Heroes Love
The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women."...
The Spirituality of Imperfection
Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
I Am Not Perfect is a simple statement of profound truth, the first step toward understanding the human condition, for to deny your essential imperfection is to deny yourself and your own humanity. The spirituality of imperfection, steeped in the rich traditions of the Hebrew prophets and Greek thinkers,...
Birth of the Living God
A Psychoanalytic Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Utilizing both clinical material based on the life histories of twenty patients and theoretical insights from the works of Freud, Erikson, Fairbairn, and Winnicott, Ana-Maria Rizzuto examines the origin, development, and use of our God images. Whereas Freud postulated that belief in God is based on...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Les Livres Saints des grandes Religions
Ce livre numérique présente une collection des Livres Saints des grandes Religions, éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes oeuvres....