Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
The Awakening Series
Books In Order And Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This Reader's Guide for The Awakening Supernatural Thriller Series contains character interviews, a list of the books in order, essays, and updates on the events a year following the end of the series.
Highlights include:
An interview with Tara about how she felt the day after the end...
by Talal Asad
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"-a conceptual...
From the Divine to the Human
A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
In this book, which has been called a synthesis of his whole message, Frithjof Schuon invites us to explore aspects of humankind's relationship with the Divine, including our sense of the sacred, the conditions of our existence, the symbolism of the human body, and the question of accepting or refusing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries. Funded by the British Academy the workshops convened over a period of two years in London, Cairo and Izmir. The workshops...
Dharma of the Dead
Zombies, Mortality and Buddhist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead have so captured the public imagination. This book argues that the zombie can be viewed as an object of meditation on death, a memento mori that makes the fact of mortality more approachable from what...
Enlivening the Chakra of the Heart
The Fundamental Spiritual Exercises of Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The seer and teacher Rudolf Steiner advised that specific 'accompanying' or 'fundamental' spiritual exercises should always be carried out in conjunction with meditation. While meditation is the foundation of any spiritual path of development, it can pose dangers to normal consciousness. These exercises...
by Martin Buber
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Edited by Nahum N. Glatzer
With a new Foreword by Rodger Kamenetz
“The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews. Why do we call ourselves Jews? I want to speak to you not of an abstraction but of your own life . . . its authenticity...
by David Fletcher, Arthur George, Karl E.H. Seigfried
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
There is a world, or perhaps a heaven, of deities outside of the Greco-Roman context, and this book looks to take you on a divine ride through those cultures to meet the gods and goddesses of ancient eras. David Fletcher, with the help of an array of sumptuous illustrations, weaves the ancient with...
by Andre Kole, Terry Holley, Alan W. Gomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Astrology, Tarot cards, Ouija boards, spiritism, psychic healing, palm reading, and old fashioned fortune telling (now called psychic consulting) -- all these are popular in America today. Psychic hotlines are heavily represented on television, with testimonials to their amazing ability to give people...
Grimoire for the Green Witch
A Complete Book of Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
The author of the popular Green Witchcraft series presents her personal Book of Shadows, designed for you to use just as she uses it-as a working guide to ritual, spells, and divination. This ready-made, authentic grimoire is based on family tradition and actual magical experience, and is easily adaptable...
Seeing, Knowing, Being: A Guide to Sacred Awakenings
A Guide to Sacred Awakenings
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
From ancient Taoist sages and Sufi mystics to Christian contemplatives and contemporary Zen masters, Seeing, Knowing, Being explores the profound truth behind all the worlds mystic traditions: Living a spiritual life has nothing to do with fixing ourselves. It is simply a matter of awakening to what...
Religious Freedom
The Contested History of an American Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were...
The Good Heart
A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
In this landmark book of interfaith dialogue, the Dalai Lama provides an extraordinary Buddhist perspective on the teachings of Jesus, commenting on well-known passages from the four Christian Gospels including the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the mustard seed, the Resurrection, and others....
Christ Among Other gods
A Defense of Christ in an Age of Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
You’ve heard it said, “All religions are equal.” But do you know how to respond?
Tolerance sees all religions as spokes of one wheel, spinning everyone together in harmony with God. Christ Among Other gods shows how this wobbly wheel simply doesn’t hold up.
Walking you through...