Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
How Things Count as the Same
Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we live...
Another Look
One God and Three Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Another Look: One God and Three Faiths is a unique study of sacred history and monotheism. This book lends a refreshing sense of clarity to the misunderstandings between the three western religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Another Look compares the three faiths, emphasizing their similarities...
The Nine Doors of Midgard
A Curriculum of Rune-work
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The Nine Doors of Midgard are the gateways to self-transformation and mastery through the Runes. This complete course of study and practice has been used by the initiates of the Rune-Gild since 1980. Long out-of-print to the wider public and difficult to obtain, it is now being made available...
by Theo Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2011
God vs. Judaism and Christianity circumvents the usual theology, dogma and philosophical wanderings and takes the reader directly Home to an understanding that we are all beings of unconditional love as is our creator. Theo Chambers's reasoning offer us a clear view that we are each creating our own...
by Alexander Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
What is Islam? Is it violent-as the actions of some Muslims would lead us to believe? Or is it peaceful-as Muslim spokesmen portray it? With this unique resource, you can examine the Qur'an, the Hadith (authoritative traditions), the lives of Muhammad and of his disciples, and discover the answer...
by Nasir Hakim
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
When speaking of Elijah Muhammad, the Last Messenger of Allah, very few are without a personal view or bias. Whether it is influenced by former students such as Minister Malik El Shabazz, also known as Minister Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, formerly known as Muhammad Ali, Louis Wilcox also known as Minister...
Way Toward Wisdom, The
An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2006
Once thought to be the task of metaphysics, the synthesis of knowledge has been discounted by many philosophers today. Benedict Ashley, a leading Thomistic scholar, argues that it remains a valid and intellectually fruitful pursuit by situating metaphysics as an endeavor that must cross disciplinary...
by Paul Hourihan
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
In this award-winning exploration of the lives and teachings of Ramakrishna and Christ, Paul Hourihan guides us through Ramakrishna's extraordinary struggle along the various paths to God-realization and opens our minds to intriguing new interpretations of Christ's life. The author covers Ramakrishna's...
by Joanne P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Zen and the Gospel of Thomas illuminates sacred, mysterious wisdom from two traditions, revealing how these profound teachings apply to our everyday life and spiritual practice.
Imagine that the Buddha asked Jesus to write a text for a Zen audience that would explain his take on the mysteries...
Embracing Epistemic Humility
Confronting Triumphalism in Three Abrahamic Religions
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Embracing Epistemic Humility: Confronting Triumphalism in Three Abrahamic Religions builds a case that encourages advocates of world views, especially the children of Abraham—Jews, Christians and Muslims—to embrace an attitude of epistemic humility toward their world views and thereby defeat the...
The Other Peace Process
Interreligious Dialogue, a View from Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book describes the theory and practice of interreligious dialogue, education and action in Israel and Palestine in the context of the political peace process as well as the peace-building processes and programs, by drawing on personal experiences and encounters of more than twenty-five years....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
When religious diversity is our reality, radical hospitality to people of other faiths is not a luxury but a necessity. More than necessary for our survival, radical hospitality to religious diversity is necessary if we are to thrive as a global society. By no means does the practice of hospitality...
A Day Apart
How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
The Sabbath is the original feast day, a day of joy and freedom from work, a holy day that allows us to reconnect with God, our fellows and nature. Now, in a compelling blend of journalism, scholarship and personal memoir, Christopher D. Ringwald examines the Sabbath from Creation to the present,...
by David L. Weddle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
An examination of the practice and philosophy of sacrifice in three religious traditions
In the book of Genesis, God tests the faith of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham by demanding that he sacrifice the life of his beloved son, Isaac. Bound by common admiration for Abraham, the religious traditions...