Comparative Religion category: 1410 books

Originally published London 1929. A detailed history of the Devil in all his forms. Includes much content on magic, paganism and early Wicca practices. Contents Include: Early Belief. The Power of Magic. Magicians and Priests. Horned God of the West. Witch God and Devil. The Evolved Magician. Herne...

The story of Christmas—familiar and heart-warming, a story of hope and peace encapsulated by the birth of the infant Jesus—is also a story that unites two faiths often at odds with one another. Luke and Matthew’s accounts of the Nativity in the Bible find their detailed parallels in Surah 19...

This book presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: Jules Isaac. This embrace put to an end the tradition, more than fifteen centuries old, of anti-Jewish rhetoric that had served...

Las religiones no discuten ni cuestionan la existencia de Dios ya que él es la base misma de la razón de casi todas ellas. Algunos de los máximos exponentes de estas religiones, han considerado en sus escritos, las razones válidas y positivas de la existencia de un Ser Supremo. No cabe...

Secular and spiritual prophets of doom abound in the information-rich twenty-first century - as they have for millennia. But there has yet to be worldwide floods, meteor impact, global computer failure, obvious alien contact, or direct intervention from God to end the world as we know it. Considering...

The belief that our world will be purified by catastrophe, and redeemed by the return of Jesus Christ in our lifetime, is strongest in the United States and continues to shape our moral, military, and geopolitical concerns to a considerable extent. Indeed, visions of the end-times have been an enduring...

(Leggi fino in fondo) Nell’era di Internet, Dio non è scomparso, ha solo cambiato volto. Possiamo parlare di metamorfosi del sacro? Di reincanto o mancato disincanto del mondo? Interpretando la secolarizzazione non già come la perdita di importanza della ricerca spirituale all’interno della...

Dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l'islam, les narrateurs héritent des mêmes récits. Ils demandent aux mêmes pages de la Bible de leur fournir des images et des mots pour exprimer leurs identités respectives. Le texte des uns peut vous entraîner dans

In Living Spirit, Living Practice, the well-known cultural studies scholar Ruth Frankenberg turns her attention to the remarkably diverse nature of religious practice within the United States today. Frankenberg provides a nuanced consideration of the making and living of religious lives as well as...

Ou s'agenouiller... Ou fuir... Ou cracher... Telles sont les seules attitudes valables devant le Christ en croix, nous dit Henri Quantin. Et de préciser : la croyance fétichiste, le scepticisme complaisant, l'incrédulité fiévreuse sont autant de façon de

Toute question théologique est aussi une question politique. Et inversement. À l'heure de la globalisation et de la fracture entre le Nord et le Sud, il y a certainement urgence à opposer le dialogue des religions et le dialogue des cultures au " choc des

A publishing phenomenon in Spain: a moving, lyrical, far-ranging meditation on the deep joys of confronting oneself through silence by a Spanish priest and Zen disciple. With silence increasingly becoming a stranger to us, one man set out to become its intimate: Pablo d'Ors, a Catholic priest...

Nel corso del XVI secolo le dottrine scaturite dalla protesta di Lutero si diffusero largamente anche in Italia, assumendo connotazioni peculiari e intrecciandosi con altri movimenti religiosi e specifiche eredità culturali. Massimo Firpo ne ricostruisce le origini e la storia mettendo in luce il...

Dagli incunaboli pre-omerici al tramonto della civiltà ellenica, attraverso i misteri di Eleusi, la religione 'dionisiaca' e 'apollinea', l'orfismo, Platone e il neoplatonismo, Erwin Rohde scardina la ricorrente tesi della Grecia 'olimpica' terra di pacata razionalità e riconduce l'origine della...