Comparative religion

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.

Americans are using more medical services every year, but as many as half of those services do nothing to improve their health.

This collection of essays by major scholars analyze the religious diversity in Chinese religion, bringing together topics from traditional and contemporary contexts and Chinese religions' encounters with Western religion.

Is it possible to rethink the multilayered and polyvalent Christology of the Qur'an against the intersecting of competing peripheral Christianities, anti-Jewish Christian polemics, and the making of a new Arab state in the 7th-century Near East?

Schein statt Sein - wie ich nahezu täglich der Begegnung mit dem Göttlichen in mir ausweiche, nur weil ich Probleme und unangenehme Gefühle vermeiden möchte und diese eigentlich verwandeln lernen könnte.

What if you were to look at human suffering, pain, and loss with another lens?

Is the Western world really post-Christian, or does Christianity simply need a reinterpretation?

Twenty-five years before Rachel Carson published her famous work Silent Spring, Lord Northbourne coined the phrase organic farming and helped to promote the importance of a holistic approach to the environment.

For years, international apologist Josh McDowell has been alert to the challenge of Islam-and how Muslims' objections to Christianity can raise deep doubts in believers' minds.

This volume offers an in-depth study of key themes common to the Hindu and Christian religious traditions.

Congregations are often confused or uninspired by the emphasis on Old Testament themes during Advent and too a overa , Christmas by December 26 to pay much attention to the gospel stories that follow Jesus' birth.

From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts for religious, political or nationalistic reasons is central to our cultural legacy.

Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy.

Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition.

Die Germanische Altertumskunde Online wird – wie bereits das in ihr aufgegangene Reallexikon – durch Ergänzungsbände begleitet.

A multidisciplinary team of scholars shows how spiritual and religious practices actually do power psychological, physical, and social benefits, producing stronger individuals and healthier societies.

Is the turning point of human history the Jesus of the cross or the Christ of the resurrection?

Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn.

Gabriel offers a startling new look at Judaism and Christianity by attempting to trace their historical theological roots, not to the revelations of God, but to the common theological ancestor, the religions of ancient Egypt.

How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries?

This book explores the relationship of clergy to Twelve Step programs.

Renowned journalist Don Lattin, longtime reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and more recently the San Francisco Chronicle, interprets the American spiritual and religious landscape since the 60s with insight, wit, and telling reporting.

If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within?

Following the first volume, which described Buddhism in India, this volume discusses the historical and doctrinal development of Theravada Buddhism in its ?

Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual writings and transforms them into a series of dialogues between two friends, a believer and a nonbeliever.

If sexuality is inherently social, the same thing can be said about celibacy.

Mission hat in Film und Literatur weiterhin Konjunktur – sei es explizit wie in Scorseses »Silence« (2016) oder in der Netflix-Neuverfilmung von »Black Narcissus« (2020), sei es en passant wie im »Kanonenboot am Yangtse-Kiang« (1966) oder implizit wie in Herzogs »Der Nomade – Auf den Spuren von Bruce Chatwin«.

In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry, comprehension, and expression.

Examining other religions provides Christians the opportunity to more deeply understand their own beliefs.

In dem Buch erzählt die 77jährige Berta Schlomm von ihrem ersten Kontakt mit der Anderswelt, als sie 7 Jahre alt war.

A challenging controversial discussion of the current state of the debate about Christianity and other world faiths.

Kabbalah and Ecology resets the conversation about ecology and the Abrahamic traditions.

Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture.

Rowan Williams explores the essential meaning and purpose of Paul's letters in this beautifully written resource for the Lenten season.

An Ancient Theory of Religion examines a theory of religion put forward by Euhemerus of Messene (late 4th-early 3rd century BCE) in his lost work Sacred Inscription, and shows not only how and why euhemerism came about but also how it was- and still is-used.

Chaplaincy for a Plural World provides a theoretical foundation for an inclusive understanding of chaplaincy and lays out key chaplaincy methods for providing spiritual care in a modern context.

Focusing on the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Douglas Pratt argues that despite a popular focus on Islam, extremist Jews and Christians can also enact terror and destruction.

This collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism.

Could it be that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius was invented by Jesuit priests?

This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity.

Gabriel Said Reynolds tells the story of Islam in this brief illustrated survey, beginning with Muhammad's early life and rise to power, then tracing the origins and development of the Quran juxtaposed with biblical literature, and concluding with an overview of modern and fundamentalist narratives of the origin of Islam.

From the very beginning James Joyce's readers have considered him as a Catholic or an anti-Catholic writer, and in recent years the tendency has been to recuperate him for an alternative and decidedly liberal form of Catholicism.