Comparative religion

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.

Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions.

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In a time of life-and-death challenges to the human spirit--global economics, nuclear dangers, environmental threats, and religious polarization and war--Christians must look for resources that provide new insights of God's power and care for all people.

Current global changes and a profound awareness of the problem regarding the thematic field of intercultural theology require new approaches.

Examining clinical practice with families through a mentalizing lens, this innovative book is filled with practical therapeutic strategies and in-depth case illustrations.

The inevitability of death in our broken world means that grief and mourning are a normal part of the human experience.

This book provides a philosophical account of the normative status of killing in Buddhism.

Ibn Kammunas Examination of the Three Faiths: A Thirteenth-Century Essay in the Comparative Study of Religion offers a rare glimpse into the philosophical and theological debates of medieval Baghdad, where Judaism, Christianity, and Islam intersected intellectually and culturally.

Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality.

Jews often consider Hinduism to be Avoda Zara, idolatry, due to its worship of images and multiple gods.

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

Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria.

This book considers the theory and application of ethics for a multifaith society.

Obra de referencia para entender mejor «Las tres religiones», las tres grandes corrientes religiosas monoteístas que surgieron entre Palestina y Arabia del siglo VI a.

Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals give us profound insights into the human condition and the Christian life.

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.

 This book critically examines three distinct interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, those of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement.

Der Band untersucht die Konversion deutsch sozialisierter Frauen zu christlichen und islamischen Strömungen, die sich am Literalsinn der jeweiligen Heiligen Schrift orientieren und in der Gemeindestruktur ähneln, mithilfe qualitativer Methoden.

Over the last decade there has been ongoing discussion about the place of religion in Quebecois society, particularly following the proposed Charter of Quebec Values in 2013.

During the summer of 2010 Ghana played host to the first ever conference held within Africa to focus solely on the relationship of the African Christian and Islam.

This book elucidates the complicated relationship between religion and national consciousness in the modern world, highlighting various cases within Central and Eastern Europe.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Education in the Global South presents new comparative perspectives on Religious Education (RE) across the Global South.

This book sets forth a new area in the study of extraordinary individuals in religious traditions.

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

In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel treats the religions of the world under the rubric "e;the determinate religion.

This volume argues that ''inter-faith'' is a problematic term for Christian theology and advocates a Hegelian approach to religious diversity.

Conflicts, Religion and Culture in Tourism highlights the role of religious tourism and pilgrimage as a tool for improving cultural relations.

A new form of anxiety has emerged, stemming in part from our post-9/11 reality, but even more stemming from the influence of supermodernity.

This book describes aspects of the concept of the supernatural from the intellectual history of Euro-American cultures.

Examining the works of prominent New Wave science fiction authors from the 1950-1960s, Sang-Keun Yoo highlights the underexplored connection between American science fiction and Asian religions, such as Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

This book delves into the future of the relationship between religion and the status of women.

Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks.

Migration has become a defining feature of the contemporary age.

Something Old, Something New: Contemporary Entanglements of Religion and Secularity offers a fresh perspective on debates surrounding religious and secular thinking.

Published in the Series Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, this volume is devoted to Christianity in India, where it has had a long presence, going back to the time of the apostles of Jesus Christ.

Why do people have religious ideas?

For many of us, the question of whether or not God exists is one of the most perplexing and profound questions of our lives, and numerous philosophers and theologians have debated it for centuries.

In her bestselling preaching autobiography, Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the Episcopal Church.

This book, based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in the Palestinian West Bank from 1995 to 1996, aims to provide an honest, authentic, and accurate accounting of the nitty-gritty, day-to-day challenges, rewards, failures, and successes of doing fieldwork in a conservative village setting.

In this personal memoir, a former evangelical Christian shares her journey away from her confining faith toward a happier, healthier, nonreligious life.

Globally we seem torn between local, exclusive forms of religion, which can cause immense spiritual and physical damage to people, and a bland secularism that confines the religions to safe havens, each offering its own private options for "e;spirituality"e; within a secularized global politic.

Innovative Discoveries for Ecumenical Ministries presents pertinent historical pastoral research considerations of the identity crisis in the priesthood requiring reconciliation of the hierarchical authority structures which have impaired authentic Christological pastoral leadership for decades.

A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry.

Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish tradition have moved towards each another over the centuries and points to new pathways for contemporary theological work.