Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings

Contributors to this volume examine the various collections of canonical sub-units in the canon, considering the state of the question regarding each particular collection.

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism is a comprehensive treatment of a relatively new form of scholarship-one of the most compelling and contested theories to emerge in recent times, and a topic that actively seeks to expand the ways in which the Bible can be studied, interpreted, and applied.

Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering.

Between 2007 and 2011, Michael Eigen gave three seminars in Seoul, each running over three days and covering different aspects of psychoanalysis, spirituality and the human psyche.

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Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another?

2025 Indie Book Awards Finalist | PoetryRilke's voice from the last tumultuous young century reaches tenderly into ours.

Meetings sets forth the life of one of the twentieth-century's greatest spiritual philosophers in his own words.

There is no easy answer to the meaning of life--even when you believe in God.

This Element shows how New Religious Movements variously conceptualize science.

This book, based upon a Jordan Lecture in Comparative Religion of 1959, traces the development of mystical thought during the formative periods of the Hindu and Muslim traditions.

In Everything is Spiritual, the author Rob Bell explores how ideas about creation, love and connection shaped him and how they shape every one of us.

Your body is the place where heaven and earth meet.

MisReading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color, using the phenomenon of the reading of scriptures--'scripturalizing'--as an analytical wedge.

Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India focuses on one particular treasure from surviving Persian manuscripts in India, Nala-yi ?

This book explores the political crisis that erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics and a Jewish insider goes rogue.

In contrast to scholarly belief that the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews envisions the transcendent, heavenly world as the eschatological inheritance of God's people, Jihye Lee argues that a version of an Urzeit-Endzeit eschatological framework - as observed in some Jewish apocalyptic texts - provides a plausible background against which the arguments of Hebrews are most comprehensively explained.

The companion resource to the bestselling Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old TestamentSouthwestern Journal of Theology 2023 Book of the YearWith the torrent of publications on the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, it's time for a dictionary dedicated to this incredibly rich yet diverse field.

"e;Using his probing intelligence to criticize the views of pundits from Locke to Chomsky, from Ayer to religious apologists, G.

What might the lives of contemporary monastics teach us about putting down roots?

This survey textbook offers an accessible introduction to the wisdom books and Psalms in their literary, theological, and canonical contexts.

Sufism is Islam's principal mystical tradition.

"e;A first-rate collection of multifaith prose and poetry by sages and seers on the mystical path .

This book offers a new, multidisciplinary way of thinking about the Kingdom of God which fully recognises its sociological and spatial significance in performing boundaries of the sacred.

This modern and readable translation of the Qur'an also includes an insightful commentary.

In Israel there are Jews and Muslims who practice Sufism together.

In "Von Thot zu Trismegistos" entführt uns Douglas C.

In ihrem Buch "Aufbruchstimmung in Verbundenheit" erzählt die Säerin von einer inneren Zerrissenheit vieler Menschen, ihr Leben sinnvoll zu gestalten.

How Eastern religions are commodified in the modern world, and why it matters ';An expansive book, covering the intersection of mysticism and capitalism illuminating.

The language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader's sense of its impenetrability.

Mystikerin – Frauenrechtlerin – Ganzheitsmedizinerin – VisionärinWas uns eine der einflussreichsten Frauen des Mittelalters heute noch zu sagen hatSeit Jahrhunderten geht von der hl.

Though he lived in the thirteenth century, Meister Eckhart's deeply ecumenical teachings were in many ways modern.

The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography.

Paul's letters are of crucial importance for Christian theology and church life.

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Armed with a generous heart, subtle mind, and a PhD in comparative religion from Columbia, Lex Hixon, as host for WBAI's In the Spirit, was able to interview and skillfully probe the leading spiritual lights of the seventies and beyond.

The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar associations, religious and cultural icons, and myths identified with the planet Venus.

Focused on Shi'ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walaya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide range of relationships with other theological ideas, chiefly in relation to the notion of authority.

Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering.

This book, first published in 1958, examines the life and works of Avicenna, one of the most provocative figures in the history of thought in the East.

Through the 'dark night of the soul' to the depiction of the erotically-charged union of the soul and God, the poetry and prose works of the Spanish friar John of the Cross (1542-1591) offer a striking account of the transformation of the individual in the course of the Christian life.