Comparative religion

Religion in Britain evaluates and sheds light on the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain; it explores the country's increasing secularity alongside religion's growing presence in public debate, and the impact of this paradox on Britain's society.

Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage offers a deep exploration of the early development of Neo-Confucian education and its enduring influence across East Asia.

Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy.

Die Tatsache, dass Menschen formal keiner religiösen Gemeinschaft angehören, findet sich in besonders starkem Maße in Ostdeutschland, aber auch in einigen anderen Regionen Europas.

From New York Times bestselling author of Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Nabeel Qureshia former Muslimcomes his deeply personal, challenging, and respectful answer book to the many questions surrounding jihad, the rise of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism.

Covering the major monotheistic religions-Christianity, Judaism, and Islam-as well as selected Eastern religions and Baha'i, Zoroastrianism, and Mormonism, this cross-cultural book offers excerpts of sacred texts and interprets passages to enable a deeper understanding of these religious writings.

Drawing from the folklore and scripture of other cultures, as well as her own monastic tradition, Sister Joan Chittister develops a spirituality that understands what it means to be human and the importance of seeing others for what they truly are-sacred.

One cannot think of Judaism without taking some stance relating to Israel's special status, its election.

Aristotle accurately characterized humans as political animals.

This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement on the subject of religious pluralism.

Corey Taylor has seen a lot of unbelievable things.

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Comparing Religions is a next-generation textbook which expertly guides, inspires, and challenges those who wish to think seriously about religious pluralism in the modern world.

This book unites the burgeoning scholarly literature on not-believing in various disciplines into a proposed new field of apisteology.

For several decades, culture played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition.

Now in its third edition, this is the most comprehensive work available on the rich variety of paths available to today's spiritual seekers.

Religion and the Philosophy of Life considers how religion as the source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of humans through language and the somatic exploration of religious ritual and prayer.

Providing an overview of current cutting-edge research in the field of Japanese religions, this Handbook is the most up-to-date guide to contemporary scholarship in the field.

In the human quest for orientation vis-a-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role.

George Tyrrell insisted that the quest for the historical Jesus was no more than scholars staring into a well to see their own reflections staring back.

Whether the issue is the rise of religiously inspired terrorism, the importance of faith based NGOs in global relief and development, or campaigning for evangelical voters in the U.

We live at a time when religious diversity has become a fact of life in our globalized societies.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship - not only theologically, but also politically.

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia.

Counter to popular perceptions, contemporary American sociology is and promotes a profoundly sacred project at heart.

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

Ancient authors debated proper verbal and non-verbal signs as representations of divinity.

The claim has repeatedly been made, and has often been contested, that a single transcendent being is present or active in all of the world's major religions.

This accessible guide to the development of Japan s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto s enduring religious identity.

Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure.

Rowan Williams explores the essential meaning and purpose of Paul's letters in this beautifully written resource for the Lenten season.

Can Islam be located on a map?

Joseph Campbell (1904-1988) was one of the most well-known and popular scholars of myth and comparative religion of the twentieth century.

This essential comparative religious studies resource presents primary scriptures of seven world religions and reveals their shared heritage in Zoroastrian tradition.

Reconstructs the idea of the creation of man in the image of God attributed in the Midrash and the Talmud.

As the spice makers cabinet is full of many herbs, so should a scholar be full of Scripture, Talmud, and Legendan ancient Jewish proverbThis reference to legendor the teaching tales used by the sagesis a remarkable testimony to the power of story and its place in the history, development, and culture of a people.

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This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth.

Black Americans are more likely than Whites to die of cancer and heart disease, more likely to get diabetes and asthma, and less likely to get preventive care and screening.

A unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society.

Critically examining the notion of 'world religions', Charles D.

With insight and scholarship, Alan Brill crisply outlines the traditional Jewish approaches to other religions for an age of globalization.

This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture, and the first thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with science, revelation with reason, prophecy with philosophy, Jewish ethics with European culture, worldliness with sanctity, and universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews.