Comparative religion

Reason, Culture, Religion book provides a systematic overview of the study of world politics.

A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation.

The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions includes authoritative yet accessible studies on a wide variety of topics dealing comparatively with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with the interactions between the adherents of these religions throughout history.

The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism.

A Stubborn Sweetness and Other Stories for the Christmas Season is a collection of modern-day short stories by Katherine Paterson, award-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia and The Great Gilly Hopkinsboth loved by children and adults for over twenty years.

An essential guide to expand your spiritual practices for followers of Norse Paganism, Heathenry, Asatru, and other Northern Traditions.

The spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans and African Americans have long been sources of fascination and curiosity, owing to their marked difference from the religious traditions of white writers and researchers.

The aim of this book is to make a major contribution to the field of religious studies while at the same time paying tribute to the work of Wilfred Smith.

This collection of essays by internationally renowned women scholars both contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might convege with women's roles in the various world's religions.

Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "e;holistic"e; other.

Christmas season is a time to reflect on the life-altering, universe-shaking event that took place approximately 2000 years ago in a small village in Palestine.

This invaluable volume gathers together the cumulative insight of more than fifty years of Leonard Swidler's work on dialogue.

A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources!

Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in commonparticularly in America.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later generations of thinkers and practitioners.

Since the Second Vatican Council (1962-5), the Catholic Church has formally declared the possibility of salvation for atheists: 'those who, without fault, have not yet arrived at an express recognition of God' (Lumen Gentium 16).

How do persons come to faith in our time?

God and Evidence presents a new set of compelling problems for theistic philosophers.

Whatever you think about Jesus, He is more.

This book offers ecumenical essays that focus on Reformation Christianity and on current Lutheran-Catholic understandings and relationships.

Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research.

The Laws of Steel: Living a Life of Resilience, Confidence and Prosperity is the 26th volume of the Laws Series by Ryuho Okawa.

The spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans and African Americans have long been sources of fascination and curiosity, owing to their marked difference from the religious traditions of white writers and researchers.

Spiritual trailblazer Huston Smith has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytelling flair as he has in these pages.

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

This book addresses the flaws and fallacies in the grounds for atheism and theism - flaws and fallacies that contaminate the arguments of non-believers and believers alike.

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

The Rhetoric of Religious Cults takes as its departure point the notion that 'cults' have a distinctive language and way of recruiting members.

Recently, the term "e;Abrahamic religions"e; has been used with exceeding frequency in the academy.

The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time.

A spiritual guidebook for bringing prayer into our bodies The power of words is nowhere more evident than when we use them to pray, but prayer is also the place where we most often come up against the limitations of words.

Faith orientates us towards transcendence; monotheistic belief supplies a lived environment for faith''s exploration and embodiment.

The outstanding nineteenth-century biblical scholar and Semitist William Robertson Smith gave three courses of Burnett Lectures on the Religion of the Semites at Aberdeen just over a century ago.

In their third book together, Adam B.

Religious Conversion: Religion Scholars Thinking Together explores various issues relating to the nature, methods, and effects of religious conversion in the major world 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.

Named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Studies as an Outstanding Book of 2014 for Mission StudiesOver the last four decades, evangelical scholars have shown growing interest in Christian debates over other religions, seeking answers to essential questions: How are we to think about and relate to other religions, be open to the Spirit, and at the same time remain evangelical and orthodox?

"e;If you're giving one book for Christmas, make it this one.

This book analyses a Hindu and an Islamic reform movement - Svadhyaya and Tablighi Jamaat - grounded in ethnographic research.

Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by reminding us of our shared stake in creating an America committed to the life of all peoples and species and to the full developments of our capabilities as an exercise of liberty.

Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism.

Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power.

Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World offers a contemporary, cross-cultural look at nonbelief and nonreligion in Islam.

As advanced by astronomer-cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomy, biology, astrobiology, astrophysics, and cosmology converge agreeably with natural theology.

Even as the number of unbelievers continues to rise, religion in America still gets unwarrantably good press.