Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Even the most casual observer of Chinese society is aware of the tremendous significance of Confucianism as a linchpin of both ancient and modern Chinese identity. Furthermore, the Confucian tradition has exercised enormous influence over the values and institutions of the other cultures of East Asia,...
Christians & Jews in Dialogue
Learning in the Presence of the Other
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Discover the Power of Dialogue to Heal Religious Division
How can members of different faith traditions approach each other with openness and respect? How can they confront the painful conflicts in their history and overcome theological misconceptions? For more than twenty years, Professors...
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a "humanized"...
Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue
After the Flood, before the Rainbow
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The Book That Breaks Masonic Silence
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1994
This is a book which I highly recommend for reading by all Freemasons...—Tom Jackson, Grand Secretary, Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
by Mateus Soares de Azevado
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In this groundbreaking work, award-winning Brazilian journalist Azevedo presents a frank and objective account of how the label of “fundamentalism” can be applied to religious and secular ‘faiths’ alike. In the 21st century, passionate and emotional attachment to a single point of view, and the...
Thou Art That
Transforming Religious Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Woven from Joseph Campbell’s previously unpublished work, this volume explores Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors — and their misinterpretations — with the famed mythologist’s characteristic conversational warmth and accessible scholarship.
Campbell’s insights highlight centuries...
Selling Yoga
From Counterculture to Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In...
Ritual and Its Consequences
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Interreligious Friendships after Nostra Aetate explores the ways in which personal relationships are essential for theology. Catholic theologians tell the personal stories of their interreligious friendships and explore the significance of their friendships for their own life and work.
Revelatory Events
Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Unseen presences. Apparitions. Hearing voices. Although some people would find such experiences to be distressing and seek clinical help, others perceive them as transformative. Occasionally, these unusual phenomena give rise to new spiritual paths or religious movements. Revelatory Events provides...
Judaism and World Religions
Encountering Christianity, Islam, and Eastern Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Provides the first extensive collection of traditional and academic Jewish approaches to the religions of the world, focusing on those Jewish thinkers that actually encounter the other world religions -that is, it moves beyond the theory of inclusive/exclusive/pluralistic categories and looks at Judaism's interactions with other faiths.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This volume is the first English-language anthology to engage with the fascinating phenomena of recent surges in New Age and alternative spiritualties in Israel. Contributors investigate how these New Age religions and other spiritualties—produced in Western countries within predominantly Protestant...
The Search for Meaning
Americans Talk About What They Believe and Why
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
“This thought-provoking oral history illuminates the vibrant panorama of values and beliefs that is shaping America.”—Coretta Scott King
What do Americans, as a people, believe in? What are the experiences that have transformed their lives? How does faith—in God, in human goodness,...