Comparative religion

The encounter between Japan and the West posed a question as to whether there can be any mutual understanding between such seemingly different civilizations.

Understanding Religious Conversion begins with emphasis on the value of respecting religious/theological interpretations of conversion while coordinating social scientific studies of how personal, social, and cultural issues are relevant to the human transformational process.

Losing a dearly loved family member or friend suddenly, unexpectedly, and tragically jars us at our very core.

What are human beings created for?

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'.

This volume of the series "e;Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses"e; investigates the roots of the concept of "e;soul"e; in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of best-selling books which not only challenged the existence of god, but claimed that religious faith was dangerous and immoral.

In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology.

Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement.

Working in Vancouver's notorious downtown eastside to pay for her theological education at Regent College, Meera Bai Grover was faced with questions about whether or not providing people who use drugs with sterile supplies and a place to inject contravened her faith.

A Guide to Religious Thought and Practices devotes a chapter to each of the world religions, all but one of which are written by a member of that faith community.

Gift and Promise shows how the theology of the Augsburg Confession is a gift for the world today.

Hindus and Christians have a long history of interaction on the Indian subcontinent.

The practice of pastoral care cannot escape the realities of injustices and oppression that often operate in the context where caregiving happens.

In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice brings together a team of distinguished scholars to provide a comprehensive and comparative account of social justice in the major religious traditions.

Patriots without a Homeland dissects an important underexplored theme in Hungarian Jewry: Modern Orthodoxy.

This book examines part of the development of the Bruderhof community, which emerged in Germany in 1920.

Winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in ReligionGlobal health efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches: a human rights-based approach to health and equity-often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development activities; or a religious or humanitarian "e;aid"e; approach motivated by personal beliefs about charity, philanthropy, missional dynamics, and humanitarian "e;mercy.

Abrahamic scriptures serve as cultural pharmakon, prescribing what can act as both poison and remedy.

This volume identifies a myriad of obstacles standing in the way of dialogue both within churches and between churches and then move on to discuss how these obstacles might be dissolved or circumvented.

An engaging and accurate introduction to the Protestant Reformation, told in the words of those who led it, opposed it, and lived it.

For those seeking inspiration and devotion for Lent and beyond, A Path to Wholeness is an invitation to Lenten observance through biblical passages and reflections.

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.

Savoring God is a comparative study that examines the creative interaction of poetry and theology in two mystical poems central to the Christian and the Hindu traditions, the sixteenth-century Spanish Cntico espiritual (Spiritual Canticle), by Saint John of the Cross, and the Sanskrit R=asa L=il=a (Dance of Love), which originated in the oral tradition.

This book highlights the linkages between politics and governance and the arts.

Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "e;none"e; box.

Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world.

A record of the 2015 Building Bridges Seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, this collection of essays explores the nature of divine and human agency through themes of creations goal, humankinds dignity and task, and notions of sovereignty.

Why is one person a believer and another an atheist?

Every tradition has its surprising voices, its thinkers who look at things slightly differently than most.

Granted that God may exist, how may God be defined in our time?

For many in the English-speaking world, Islam remains a mysterious religion.

In response to the intellectual movement of New Atheism, this volume articulates a "e;New Theist"e; response that has at its core a desire to engage in productive and depolarizing dialogue.

In order to be a people of grace, we have to understand the story of grace.

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

Interreligious dialogue that strives for both hospitality and honest discussion of difference!

Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West.

With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R.

When Christians Were Jews tells the story of identity rediscovered.

A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and the quest for immortality from the bestselling author and sceptic Michael ShermerIn his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death.

Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism have a profoundly philosophical dimension.

Der Autor, Mario Eduard Giovanelli vermittelt in seinem einfach verständlichen, informativen, meist ernsthaft, manchmal auch witzig, zynisch und sarkastisch geschriebenen Buch, 'Zum Blöken zu dämlich - Von den Dummheiten und Irrtümern Einzelner über die der Massen, bis hin zur Beherrschung des Schach des Lebens', im ersten Teil über sowohl historische als auch gegenwärtige Dummheiten, Irrtümer und Fehlentscheidungen Einzelner bis hin zu denen der Massen.

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