Comparative religion

Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities.

Die postkoloniale Theologie ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem der wichtigsten und innovativsten Felder innerhalb der interkulturellen Theologie avanciert.

Learning Interreligiously offers a series of about one hundred short pieces, written online between 2008 and 2016.

This historical dictionary covers the major trends in the 20th century ecumenical movement until today.

In this autobiography of a Christian minister, Fred R.

Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States.

While humanist sensibilities have played a formative role in the advancement of our species, critical attention to humanism as a field of study is a more recent development.

Support and wisdom when serious illness strikesSally Wilke gets it.

Ich spüre was, was du nicht spürst!

Believing peacemaking to be an inherent part of discipleship, Presbyterians have taken many valiant stands for peace throughout our history.

In premodern Japan, legitimization of power and knowledge in various contexts was sanctioned by consecration rituals (kanjo) of Buddhist origin.

Atheism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to belief in the non-existence of deities.

The present collection brings together a set of essays which shed light on recent research into non-religion, secularity and atheism-topics which have been emerging as important areas of current research in a number of different disciplines.

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).

A History of the World's Religions bridges the interval between the founding of religions and their present state, and gives students an accurate look at the religions of the world by including descriptive and interpretive details from original source materials.

All of us are shaped in many ways by unseen markers in our DNA.

A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents.

"e;Larry Hart's Truth Aflame brings together charismatic renewal and classic evangelical faith better than anything I have read.

While all have reason to celebrate the greening of Christian-Jewish relations since the Shoah and the promulgation of Nostra Aetate (4), few will deny that much work remains to be done by Christians and Jews seeking the best way forward that they might best serve God's purposes in the world, the mission of God.

As an atheistic religious tradition, Buddhism conventionally stands in opposition to Christianity, and any bridge between them is considered to be riddled with contradictory beliefs on God the creator, salvific power and the afterlife.

"e;This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God-what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway.

Mirabai, a sixteenth-century Indian princess, wrote passionate love songs to Lord Krishna.

"e;For everything there is a season,"e; as the writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us, and that includes preaching.

Based on 10 years of dedicated research, Dangerous Illusions is a battle cry for the human race to throw off religion in favour of logic and reason.

Even under the best circumstances in life, we all suffer psychological injuries to our self.

With the increased interest in the practice of spiritual direction, both from people feeling called to be spiritual directors, and from those seeking direction, this books addresses the need to train the supervisors of spiritual directors.

Paulos Mar Greogorios: A Reader is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches.

Addressing arguments that comparative philosophy is itself impossible, or that it is indistinguishable from philosophy more generally, this collection challenges myopic understandings of comparative method and encourages a more informed consideration.

Das Anliegen der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist es, mit der Theorie der multiplen Differenzierung einen soziologischen Blick auf Religion und die besonderen Übersetzungsverhältnisse am Beispiel der organisations- und milieuspezifischen Lage der Aleviten in der Türkei zu werfen.

What is the role of the church in ministering to the sick?

Christianity Today Book AwardECPA Top Shelf Book Cover AwardApart from the doctrine of God, no doctrine is as comprehensive as that of creation.

Witch-hunts in Central Europe were by no means focused only on women; one in four alleged witches was male.

This is the first full biography of Biblical scholar and theological seminary professor James Strong (1822-1894).

Over the last 25 years, there has been much talk of the presumed decline in religious participation in America.

In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars uses history, sociology, anthropology, and semiotics to approach Transcendence as a human phenomenon, and shows the unavoidability of thinking with and through the Beyond.

In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable.

Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person.

Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church.

For a millennium and a half in China, Christianity has been perceived as a foreign religion for a foreign people.

Should we believe in God?

"e;We are surrounded by a world that talks, but we don't listen.

The words 'me,' 'mine,' 'you,' 'yours,' can mislead us into feeling separate from other people.

How do religion, gender and sexuality interact?

Looking at topics across the spectrum of America's wars, religious groups, personalities, and ideas, this volume shows that even in an increasingly secular society, religious roots and values run deep throughout American society and are elevated in times of war.

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