Hinduism

From early Sanskrit rulebooks to the modern codification of ''Hindu law'', the authors examine interactions between Hinduism and law.

This book explores how member care is being practiced around the world to equip sending organizations as they intentionally support their mission/aid personnel.

Answering the Cry of the Poor in a Million VillagesThe church is facing a strategic opportunity85 percentof people living in extreme povertyaround the world reside in villages.

Students of religion and Eastern thought will welcome this readable translation and practical commentary on the Uddhava Gita, a Hindu text in which Krishna's teachings introduced in the Bhagavad Gita are extended and nuanced.

Small groups continue to be a significant part of church life and Christian formation in the twenty-first century, impacting a church and society characterized by loneliness and fragmentation.

Few other Hindu gods guide a regional consciousness, pervade walks of everyday life and define a collective psyche the way Lord Jagannath does in Odisha and its contiguous areas.

Is the Christian concept of grace anathema to the social structure of merit-making found in Buddhist karmic communities?

The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a nuanced and historically persuasive exploration of Christianity's remarkable trajectory as a social and cultural force in southern India.

In 1938 the Reverend Henry H.

In many oral cultures local proverbs are highly regarded for their wisdom and prized for their aesthetic expression.

Because of their ever-changing personalities, their high energy, and their emerging ability to think critically, younger adolescents present a special faith formation challenge to the congregations who love them.

The life and times of India's most famous spiritual and literary masterpieceThe Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the most famous of all Indian scriptures, is universally regarded as one of the world's spiritual and literary masterpieces.

This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world's oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions.

Half of the population of the world lives in cities of one million or more.

In Painstaker, Galbraith takes stock of life, building an inventory of faith, regret, travel, parenthood, and hardship both physical and mental.

Radical Pursuit of a Christlike Life among the NationsBeginning as an obscure sect in a backwater province of the Roman Empire, the Christian faith radiated out in all directions.

In recent years, changes in religious studies in general and the study of Hinduism in particular have drawn more scholarly attention to other forms of the Hindu faith that are concretely embodied in temples, icons, artworks, rituals, and pilgrimage practices.

Recent years have seen the emergence of a virulent version of Hindu nationalism and fundamentalism in India under the banner of Hindutva.

For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive.

The title of this book points to a feature-the missionary family-often considered to be a distinctive of the Protestant missionary movement.

Hope and Hospitality for Migrating People Never have so many people left their homes and migrated to other parts of the world as weve seen in recent years.

Singing a Hindu Nation explores how the political becomes devotional through musical performance.

Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L.

For the last couple decades, urban church planting has been all the rage.

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Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

This book explores recent calls to increase instruction of the Bible in American public schools.

This book provides the most thorough, penetrating analysis of trends in Korean missions to date.

The author's study of missionary training has taken him all over the world.

India as colourful and vibrant, a land as diverse as its people.

Hinduism is, in many respects a unique phenomenon in the History of World Religions.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

Venture into the world of overseas missions from an African-American perspective.

We're In This TogetherIn Sacred Siblings: Valuing One Another for the Great Commission we learn about how teams come together with varying expectations of what team life should be.

Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture.

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis.

With the majority of the world's Christians now living in the non-Western world, Christian mission has become a global movement.

This book narrates the story of a young family that, in the year 1975, made the bold decision to leave the United Kingdom and seek a new life in South Africa.

Pivoting upon her ten-year stay as a missionary in Rwanda, in this memoir McAllister reflects deeply on her experiences of redemption and transformation.

A landmark new translation and edition Written almost two millennia ago, Patanjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul.

This book, first published in 1957, was the first in English to provide a full and clear introduction to one of the most significant of Indian gods, and stresses his supreme role in Indian religion and art.