Comparative religion

In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history.

A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage.

The treatment and role of women are among the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam.

Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically.

Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements.

This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion.

Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women.

The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity.

Long the dominant religion of the West, Christianity is now rapidly becoming the principal faith in much of the postcolonial world--a development that marks a momentous shift in the religion's very center of gravity.

The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even to recognize that women are capable of ordination.

Catholics and Protestants have, since the earliest days of the Reformation, held markedly different views about the Virgin Mary.

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"e;And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Hsieh Liang-tso (c.

While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge.

This volume offers an in-depth study of key themes common to the Hindu and Christian religious traditions.

From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history.

Sparta, which existed from 800 B.

For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity-- point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless.

The Vatican II Council of 1965 signaled a new era in the relationship of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

In an attempt to bridge the vast divide between classical Asian thought and contemporary Western philosophy, Joel J.

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men.

In this volume Ann Lee Bressler offers the first cultural history of American Universalism and its central teaching -- the idea that an all-good and all-powerful God saves all souls.

In Votes For Women, Jean H.

This book provides a sophisticated new interdisciplinary interpretation of the formulation and evolution of African American religion and culture.

This volume brings together essential writings by the unjustly neglected nineteenth-century philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904).

This volume brings together essential writings by the unjustly neglected nineteenth-century philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904).

What does the practice of religion look like in Latin American today?

What does the practice of religion look like in Latin American today?

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "e;The Cloud Messenger,"e;) The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory.

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "e;The Cloud Messenger,"e;) The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory.

For many of us, the question of whether or not God exists is one of the most perplexing and profound questions of our lives, and numerous philosophers and theologians have debated it for centuries.

For many of us, the question of whether or not God exists is one of the most perplexing and profound questions of our lives, and numerous philosophers and theologians have debated it for centuries.

Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New York City area -- two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian.

A significant number of Americans view atheists as immoral elitists, aloof and unconcerned with the common good, and they view science and scientists as responsible.

A significant number of Americans view atheists as immoral elitists, aloof and unconcerned with the common good, and they view science and scientists as responsible.

The number of people claiming no religious affiliation has skyrocketed in recent years, and that growth shows no signs of slowing down.

The number of people claiming no religious affiliation has skyrocketed in recent years, and that growth shows no signs of slowing down.

Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition.

Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition.

Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of rituals performed at female saint shrines in the Middle East.

Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of rituals performed at female saint shrines in the Middle East.

A major figure in American religious and cultural history, Fosdick was famous as a preacher, a pacifist and a champion of civil rights.

Many studies written about the Jewish-Christian relationship are primarily historical overviews that focus on the Jewish background of Christianity, the separation of Christianity from Judaism, or the medieval disputations between the two faiths.

The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to include post-Civil War Transcendentalists like Samuel Johnson, this book is encyclopedic in scope.

From 1922 to 1936 the Presbyterian Church in the U.

This is the fourth volume in an influential series that presents a basic revaluation of the nature of mysticism.

In the past decade, the struggle for new forms of federal order and public life has exploded in central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and South Africa.

Since its inception, Islam and its civilization have been in continuous relationships with other religions, cultures, and civilizations, including not only different forms of Christianity and Judaism inside and outside the Middle East, Zoroastrianism and Manicheism, Hinduism and even Buddhism, but also tribal religions in West and East Africa, in South Russia and in Central Asia, including Tibet.

In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets.