Comparative religion

Pilgrimage inspired and shaped the distinct experiences of commoners and nobles, men and women, clergy and laity for over a thousand years.

Atheism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to belief in the non-existence of deities.

This volume investigates Paul Tillich's relationship to Asian religions and locates Tillich in a global religious context.

The Encyclopaedia of World Religions and Interfaith Dialogues is an initiative to deal with the subject of religion and interfaith dialogue in its totality.

Hinduism has become a vital 'other' for Judaism over the past decades.

Experience your healing as you encounter the Lord's love through the holy Communion.

In this third of three volumes addressing Luther's outlaw God, Steven D.

Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand.

Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.

In 1965, the Second Vatican Council formally issued a historic document titled Nostra Aetate (In Our Time).

Pain, Passion and Faith: Revisiting the Place of Charles Wesley in Early Methodism is a significant study of the 18th-century poet and preacher Charles Wesley.

God and Evidence presents a new set of compelling problems for theistic philosophers.

Though angels have been part of our culture and our history for centuries, they have been forgotten in recent times, diminished to the level of christmas trinkets and the playthings of children.

There has never been a more important time for a study of the social, economic and political origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, three important world religions which share a common root.

Sovereignty generally refers to a particular national territory, the inviolability of the nations borders, and the right of that nation to protect its borders and ensure internal stability.

Understanding the Religions of the World offers a new approach to the study of religion which moves away from the purely descriptive and instead helps students understand how religions actually 'work'.

Während die Körperthematik schon in der Theologie und der Sportwissenschaft aufgegriffen wurde, sucht man entsprechende Diskurse und Studien in der Religionswissenschaft bislang vergebens.

The book is organized into three divisions, and as the title implies, there is a brief letter in the form of a New Testament epistle to the contemporary church, a portion of which begins each chapter.

Exploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this book offers a unique insight into India s rapidly transforming multi-religious society.

This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts:  first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry; the devotional images in the Carthusian Miscellany; and meditation for "e;simple souls"e; in the Carthusian Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ.

Johann Stigel (1515–1562), der bei Philipp Melanchthon an der Wittenberger Universität studierte und dort 1542 die Terenzprofessur erhielt, war ein zu seiner Zeit gefeierter neulateinischer Dichter, den Kaiser Karl V.

Drawing on research funded by the European Commission, this book explores how religious diversity has been, and continues to be, represented in cultural contexts in Western Europe, particularly to teenagers: in textbooks, museums and exhibitions, popular youth culture including TV and online, as well as in political speech.

Professor of theology Stephen Wellum considers Christ's singular uniqueness and significance biblically, historically, and today, in our pluralistic and postmodern age.

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church.

The evil of the holocaust demands a radical rethink of the traditional Christian understanding of Judaism.

The Emancipation of European Jewry during the nineteenth century led to conflict between tradition and modernity, creating a chasm that few believed could be bridged.

The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently.

There is a long and rich history of opinion centred on female prayer leadership in Islam that has occupied the minds of theologians and jurists alike.

The charisma of prophecy is found throughout the history of the global Pentecostal movement.

Startled by the unexpected diagnosis of a rare and often-terminal cancer, JoAnn A.

In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century.

This book explores one of the great paradoxes of our era.

What's working and not working in your congregation?

It is much harder to define a religious movement than it is to define a religion or denomination.

In these sermons, Barabra Brown Taylor walks us through the church year from the expectancy of Advent to the fires of Pentecost and beyond.

All of us educate, teach, and form others; as Christians, the place in which this formation takes place is our community.

Ritual happens in distinct places – in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes – and religious activities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult statues, and sacred texts.

This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender differences are validated by churches (and especially black churches) torn between competing inclusive and exclusive tendencies.

The Past, Present and Future of Theology of Interreligious Dialogue brings together several of the most widely regarded specialists who have contributed to theological reflection on religious diversity and interreligious encounter.

More Sermon Nuggets contains ninety-five topics treated in hundreds of Fred R.