Hinduism

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

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga.

All Christian colleges and universities hail the integration of faith and learning as a premier mission objective.

Matteo Ricci, an early recruit of the Jesuit order, was sent to China as a missionary in 1582.

God has an epic plan for the flourishing of all people and places.

This book deals with issues such as current approaches to Bible translation, churches undergoing persecution, spiritual warfare and animists, and the possibility of a greater understanding between Muslims and Christians.

This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "e;piety"e; and "e;responsibility"e; as integral to each other.

The vast majority of Christians in India are landless laborers descended from low-caste converts or animistic origins.

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India.

The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today.

Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri.

God loves just economies, but sadly the invisible hand of the market has chiseled huge cracks in our communities.

In this book, three missiologists (Priest, Campbell, and Mullen) wrestle with the issue of spiritual power.

In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered.

This comparative study investigates the place of Hindu divorce in the Indian legal system and considers whether it offers a way out of a matrimonial crisis situation for women.

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

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India.

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

The mantra and kirtan (call-and-response devotional chants) of yoga practice sometimes get short shrift in the West because they aren't well understood.

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet.

Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaisnava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experience is bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Visnu.

Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia.

Over the past few decades Christianity in the global South has grown exponentially in size and influence, with many centers emerging around the globe, such as Brazil, South Korea, and Nigeria.

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

Jesus's final command to his disciples was to make disciples of all nations.

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The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world.

In recent years, scholars from a wide range of disciplines have examined the revival in intellectual and literary cultures that took place during India's 'early modern' centuries.

This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and intimate spheres of life.

This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality.

The Kathasaritsagara is a combination of simultaneously innocent and sophisticated folk stories bringing forth both common sense and highly sophisticated Sanskrit writing.

In the nature of an introductory volume, offers a comprehensive overview of Hinduism, its beginnings, traditions, religious/sectarian movements, teachings, socio cultural parameters, and are, in sum of the whole Hindu heritage.

Taking a comparative approach which considers characters that are shared across the narrative traditions of early Indian religions (Brahmanical Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism) Shared Characters in Jain, Buddhist and Hindu Narrative explores key religious and social ideals, as well as points of contact, dialogue and contention between different worldviews.

This volume is a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia, the Bhagavad-gita.

Imagine traditional congregations in the United States and Canada sending missionaries across the street from their church buildings to express the kingdom of God within a postmodern culture and among disenfranchised Christians.

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

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

An Analytic Theology of Evangelism clarifies and defends the Gospel and our call to evangelize.

Imagine traditional congregations in the United States and Canada sending missionaries across the street from their church buildings to express the kingdom of God within a postmodern culture and among disenfranchised Christians.

Managing Sexuality in Islamic and Christian CommunitiesMy Mothers Sons provides a thoughtful model for how Western Christian workers can respectfully negotiate sexual boundaries and norms in Muslim contexts.

This book seeks to explore the complex modes of interface between religion, atheism, and the Goddess in multicultural contexts.

Purana enjoins several rites of worship and acts of homage comprising a series, of physical and spiritual practices in accompaniment to the Tantra, Yantra and Mantra appliances.

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

This helpful resource provides a ready-made three-part course for parents and godparents bringing children for baptism and offers resources for the church family to understand its key role in baptism and the best welcome possible.