Comparative religion

In April 2008 a conference was convened at Rice University that brought together experts in the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The miracles of Jesus fulfil multiple functions, not least as part of Christ's ministry.

"e;Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating.

The evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years is the subject of Robert Wuthnow's engrossing new book.

There are two tragedies in life: to live life believing God exists, and finding this to be an illusion, and to live life believing God does not exist, but finding that God does exist.

What is fundamentalism and what does it really amount to?

"Jenseits Nirwana" ist die Autobiografie eines hellsichtigen Energieheilers.

A bold challenge to rethink the humanities as intimately connected to the superhuman and to "e;decolonize reality itself.

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

This volume explores the ways in which lived religion encourages and contributes to conflicts, as well as fosters tolerance, in the interlocking rural, urban, and virtual social spheres.

The tale of a collective evil force known as Gog and Magog has occupied the imagination of Jews, Christians, and Muslims for millennia, finding expression in literary and scholarly works and other cultural artifacts.

WISSENSCHAFTLICHER RELIGION

At the heart of American studies is the idea of America itself.

The scientific debates on border crossings and cultural exchange between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have much increased over the last decades.

Tauchen Sie ein in die mystische Welt der chinesischen Mythologie und entdecken Sie die tief verwurzelten spirituellen Traditionen, die eine der ältesten Zivilisationen der Menschheitsgeschichte geprägt haben.

The concept of inspiration is part and parcel of the theological tradition in several religious confessions, but it has largely receded to the background, if not vanished altogether, in the discussions of biblical scholars.

This first book-length study of religious schisms as a general phenomenon draws widely from different traditions and geographical areas.

Many paths can lead to the Divine-these inspiring stories may help you clarify yours.

Can religions be compared?

This book offers fresh insights into the contemporary state of Ecumenism.

Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory.

This book engages thinkers from different religious and humanist traditions in response to Pope Francis's pronouncements on interreligious dialogue.

In 1964, Augusto Del Noce assembled in a book some of his best works on Marxism, atheism, and the history of modern philosophy.

This book focuses on the long history of what is arguably the most prestigious and influential festival in Japan Kyoto's Gion festival.

This book describes the theory and practice of interreligious dialogue, education and action in Israel and Palestine in the context of the political peace process as well as the peace-building processes and programs, by drawing on personal experiences and encounters of more than twenty-five years.

Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes.

The unique essays in this collection use the underlying allegiance to scripture in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity to underscore the deep affinities between the three monotheistic traditions while at the same time encouraging respect for the differences between the traditions to be preserved.

A sweeping new work exploring Iran's cultural import and influence on each of the world's major religionsToday it is Iran's association with Islam that commands discussion and debate.

Philosophy and the advances in cosmology, neurology, molecular biology, and the social sciences have made the convincing and converging arguments for God's existence more probable than ever in history.

Exploring Religious Diversity analyzes the philosophical questions raised by the fact that many religions in the world often appear to contradict each other in doctrine and practice.

Still in its infancy because of the overly conservative views and methods assumed by the majority of scholars working in it since the mid-19th century, the field of early Islamic and quranic studies is one in which the very basic questions must nowadays be addressed with decision.

Being angry at God is full of pain, confusion, and loneliness.

Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "e;everything is permitted.

This volume explores the ways in which interreligious encounters happen ritually.

The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism.

This book presents personal narratives and collective ethnography of the emergence and development of Asian and Asian American women's scholarship in theology and religious studies.

Lent recalls times of wilderness and wandering, from newly freed Hebrew slaves in exile to Jesus' temptation in the desert.

An introduction to the thought of one of the greatest perennialist authors of the twentieth century.

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.

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.

Within contemporary Western European academic, media, and socio-political spheres, Muslims are predominantly seen through the lens of increased religiosity.

Das Verhältnis von Staat und Religion ist schon seit jeher ein zentrales Forschungsfeld der Politischen Theorie.