Comparative religion

Controversies over how to define the word "e;religion"e; have persisted for decades.

Controversies over how to define the word "e;religion"e; have persisted for decades.

Religion plays a central role in human experience.

Religion plays a central role in human experience.

The Caribbean is a microcosm of the world's religions.

The Caribbean is a microcosm of the world's religions.

This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it.

Discover your true power as you embrace the calling God has reserved just for you.

A Wall Street Journal BestsellerFormer IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a powerful combination of memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how we can all drive meaningful change.

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sourcesIn the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ?

You can know a lot about Jesus and not know him at all.

A beautifully illustrated examination of the women artists whose inspired search for artistic integrity and equality influenced Expressionist avant-garde cultureWomen Artists in Expressionism explores how women negotiated the competitive world of modern art during the late Wilhelmine and early Weimar periods in Germany.

An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy.

One flicker of hope.

Can you truly give a reason for your faith--Or the lack of it?

After seven miscarriages and three failed adoptions, where do you find the strength to pursue your dream of parenthood?

Therefore, women's experiences in getting to know Christ are not new to the human soul.

As a health professional, personal conversations with thousands of women from around the world revealed one trend.

This book explores professional women's experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's economy, identifying attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative social culture.

There will be pain ahead, and trouble and problems that I won't be able to fix on my own.

This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation.

Aging and Creativity examines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or output.

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The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English KoranFor millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation.

A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights.

Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon.

A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public lifeIn a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures.

Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium.

A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coedAs the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time.

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "e;Christian-Muslim divide"e;--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule.

Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years.

Was creation a fantastic series of actions by God that long ago set the universe in motion?

Named to the shortlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Women in Business CategoryAddressing gender alone won't help women rise to the top.

As Christian leaders in the first through fifth centuries embraced ascetic interpretations of the Bible and practices of sexual renunciation, sexual slandersuch as the accusations Paul leveled against wayward Gentiles in the New Testamentplayed a pivotal role in the formation of early Christian identity.

Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one.

This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture-from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements.

In Women in Psychiatry, 21 accomplished women psychiatrists in private practice, teaching institutions, hospitals, public health treatment programs, and leadership positions reveal both the challenges and rewards of being in a wide array of professional positions.

Winner of the 2024 ECPA Christian Book Award for Best Bible Study OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD!

Find the healing and hope you long for when you take time to experience God's presence each day.

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period.

Discover the woman you were meant to be when you find your worth in Jesus Christ.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRelationships are wonderful .

Let Boundaries for Your Soul show you how to turn your shame to joy, your anger to advocacy, and your inner critic into your biggest champion.

From conservation to protecting endangered species to sustainable living, A Christian's Guide to Planet Earth offers a faith-based framework for viewing our responsibility to the natural world as well as practical, biblical ways we can care for the magnificent creation around us.

We all have past experiences we wish we could redo or undo altogether.

During a time of global conflict, the theological question of whether Muslims, Jews, and Christians worship the same God carries political baggage.

The founder of Better Life Bags, Rebecca Smith, teaches us how to take little steps, say yes when God calls, and follow the passion He has given us.

Come Matter Here is a call to stop putting your life on hold until "e;someday"e; and start digging your heels into the here and now to build the life God has designed for you.