Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
by George Braswell
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1994
Understanding other religions is no longer an academic, ivory tower exercise. In this timely and important book, Dr, Braswell provides an introduction to the major world religions, as well as many of the minor ones.
Founders of Faith: The Parallel Lives of God's Messengers
The Parallel Lives of God's Messengers
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Founders of Faith explores the lives of the Founders of the world’s major religions—including Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and the Bahai Faith—and reveals that they are linked by sets of striking patterns. These patterns suggest that our world’s religions...
Our Religions
The Seven World Religions Introduced by Preeminent Scholars from Each Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
An essential introduction to the world's living religions by experts from each tradition -- published in conjunction with the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions.
Four Testaments
Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: Sacred Scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions—the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita—inviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice...
by Leo Schaya
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Leo Schaya (1916-1986) was a brilliant author and editor whose only book to appear in English was the much-acclaimed The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah, which is often cited in books on Jewish mysticism. This new book, Universal Aspects of the Kabbalah and Judaism, is a collection of writings by Schaya,...
by Kurt Van Gorden, Alan W. Gomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
With their strong emphasis on traditional family values, education, discipline, and service, Mormons sound and look more "Christian" than many believers. At first glance, there seems to be little to criticize in what they say or do. But peel back the façade, and you find a cult with its...
by Ross Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
More than a belief system, Mormonism is a cultural identity that shapes the worldview, values and lifestyle of those involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In this digital short Ross Anderson helps Christians to understand Mormon life and culture, answers the senstive question...
Roman Catholics and Shi'i Muslims
Prayer, Passion, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
This timely work explores two influential religious traditions that might seem to have little in common: Twelver Shi'i Islam and Roman Catholicism. With the worldwide rise of religious fundamentalism, it is imperative that religious movements such as Christianity and Islam begin working harder to...
A New Religious America
How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today
The 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.
There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles, home to the greatest variety of Buddhists...
Sacred Schisms
How Religions Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Schism (from the Greek 'to split') refers to a group that breaks away from another, usually larger organisation and forms a new organisation. Though the term is typically confined to religious schisms, it can be extended to other kinds of breakaway groups. Because schisms emerge out of controversies,...
Paganism
An Introduction to Earth- Centered Religions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A comprehensive guide to a growing religious movement. If you want to study Paganism in more detail, this book is the place to start. Based on a course in Paganism that the authors have taught for more than a decade, it is full of exercises, meditations, and discussion questions for group or individual...
by Ankerberg, John, Weldon
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
From blood transfusions to salvation by works, John Ankerberg and John Weldon expose the unorthodox doctrines that put Jehovahs Witnesses at risk physically and spiritually. With its easytofollow, questionandanswer format, this book allows readers to quickly discover: Who founded Jehovahs Witnesses and...
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque
Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some...
by Steven Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A Choctaw Indian Christian bishop explores the teachings of the Bible through the lens of Native American tradition.
Steven Charleston—an Episcopal bishop and Choctaw native—takes a unique and provocative look into the “vision quests” of Jesus, and considers Christian biblical interpretation...