Comparative religion

What does a slab of bacon have to do with marital fidelity?

Die Debatte um die Integration von Migranten vor allem aus dem muslimischen Kulturkreis wird inzwischen ebenso engagiert wie kontrovers geführt.

Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is everywhere.

Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals give us profound insights into the human condition and the Christian life.

This book is written as a memoir of 40-plus years of working with human experiences of death, grief, and bereavement.

A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents.

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.

The comparative method is an integral part of religious studies.

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.

La Bibbia è il libro di gran lunga più sopravvalutato della letteratura mondiale, e Gesù di Nazaret il personaggio più sopravvalutato della storia del mondo.

The Iraq War caused emotional, physical, psychiatric, relational, and spiritual challenges to an untold number of military reservists and their families.

The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it.

Hope is a central topic in spiritual care.

This book documents the structure of religious diversity in Australia and examines this diversity in the context of the law, migration, education, policing, the media and interfaith communities.

Spirituality without God is the first global survey of godless spirituality.

A new look at Rashi''s innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation.

Understanding Religious Conversion begins with emphasis on the value of respecting religious/theological interpretations of conversion while coordinating social scientific studies of how personal, social, and cultural issues are relevant to the human transformational process.

This book posits that along with holy icons, pagan statues were an integral part of Byzantine visual culture.

Tracing the magico-religious beliefs surrounding birds as far back in time as is possible, to the cultures in which these beliefs arose.

This book explores the idea of religious pluralism while defending the norms of secular cosmopolitanism, which include liberty, tolerance, civility, and hospitality.

Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C.

New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents.

An award-winning sociologist's "e;fascinating and excellent"e; history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age (Newsweek).

Confucius, the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad are among the most thoughtful and influential people in history.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time.

The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.

Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism.

The chapters collected in this book, prepared by a think tank of the Elijah Interfaith Academy, address the subject of religious leadership.

Every summer, thousands gather from around the world in the blistering heat of Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the seven-day celebration of art, community, and fire known as Burning Man.

Where Christianity Errs comprises a group of essays that aim to carefully, clearly, fairly, and without rancor argue that Christianity has significantly erred in some of its important beliefs and activities.

UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of encounters with unknown aerial objects captured the attention of the United States military and the imagination of the press and the public.

An engaging and accessible introduction to Christianity s relationship with other world religions, addressing the questions of why the reality, and vitality, of other religions has become a challenge, and showing how Christianity is equipped to deal with religious plurality at both the doctrinal and social level.

Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight.

Tackling a host of myths and prejudices commonly leveled at atheism, this captivating volume bursts with sparkling, eloquent arguments on every page.

A 2004 approach to comparing religions (Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism), focusing on traditions of asceticism.

Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "e;holistic"e; other.

Is it really possible to find peace during one of the busiest and stress-filled times of the year?

Right from the beginning of humankind, God has never deprived a people of his grace and revelation.

Comparing the spread of Christianity to the East to its more successful spread to the West, Montgomery illustrates the uneven diffusion of one of the world's most influential and successful religions.

This ground-breaking and eye-opening book examines the intersections of religion and same-sex desire, from St.

A contribution to the field of theological aesthetics, this book explores the arts in and around the Pentecostal and charismatic renewal movements.

A stimulating inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries - and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to go one day.

Dear non-believer,I like that when the infuriating alarm clock yells Wake up, theres a challenge waiting for you today, rousing you from a pleasant dream, you do not smash it.