Comparative religion

Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing.

This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about.

Women's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.

This text provides the first full-length consideration of women's economic roles in early modern Scottish towns.

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials.

When Catechism of the Catholic Church broke onto the N.

Renewal Theology deals with the full range of Christian truth from within the charismatic tradition.

The role of women in positions of worship and church leadership is one of the most divisive and inconclusive biblical debates.

Discover the astonishing evidence for intelligent design in this New York Times bestselling book by award-winning journalist Lee Strobel.

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All too frequently, humans are involved only in seeing religion from either an academic or a proselytising point of view; we forget the human side, the faith and belief, the wonder that is the driving force behind religion.

You probably speak 20,000 words a day, give or take, and each one influences those who listen.

Islam is on the rise all over the West, including America.

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.

World events won't let North Americans ignore Muslims anymore.

This collection of essays considers topics in pastoral theology, pastoral care and counseling, pastoral leadership, and social work, and attends to challenges and opportunities pertaining to the support and care of persons in need.

Battles over creation or evolution have been perpetuated for years by vocal Christians and scientists alike.

Tricksters are known by their deeds.

Drinking from the Same Well is designed for those who seek a praxis-oriented theological grounding in the exploration of cross-cultural perspectives in the field of pastoral care and counseling.

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

In the twenty-first-century workplace, women are encouraged to step up, lean in, take charge, go for it .

Meet Me at the Palaver makes the case for a particular approach to pastoral counseling as a response to the destructive impact of colonial Christianity on indigenous African communities.

This publication develops a strategic focus for integrating gender concerns into programs and operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Kazakhstan.

This book provides a current and comprehensive analysis of the context in which Pacific women engage in the private sector, as well as a detailed list of strategies to increase their participation in business.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam claim to be monotheistic, but none of them actually is; none of the three has yet arrived at the true monotheism the Bible and the Qur'an mandate: that is, belief in there being but One God of All.

This book is a collection of seven Good Friday homilies by the late Rev.

Too often conversations on Science and Christianity skate over much deeper assumptions--or perceptions--on the nature and interpretation of Scripture, and the nature of science and of God.

Since the dawn of science, ideas about the relation between science and religion have always depended on what else is going on in a society.

Beginning with her award-winning book Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (1990), Nancey Murphy has used philosophy of science as a way into, and catalyst for, fresh thinking in cosmology, divine action, epistemology, cognitive neuroscience, theological anthropology, philosophy of mind, and Christian virtue ethics.

The question of divine agency in the world remains one important unresolved underlying obstacle in the dialogue between theology and science.

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

In an increasingly polarized world atheists and religious fundamentalists still agree on one thing: how God must be defined.

Marriage and the Counsel of God is the product of over twenty-two years of biblical study and pastoral counseling.

This book reviews the financial past, present, and future of couples contemplating marriage, with questions and text posed to highlight critical points.

Pentecostals are often portrayed as emotional people who are driven largely by experience.

Within a Dutch enclave already removed from the larger world, Janie's family is further isolated and odd.

Africans' prevailing interest in the prosperity gospel is not only connected to the influence of American prosperity teachers reaching a worldwide audience through their imaginative use of the media, but is also related to the African worldview and African traditional religion, and its lasting influence on contemporary Africans and the way they think about prosperity, as well as their interest in prosperity in post-colonial Africa.

In the last fifty years, the history of World Christianity has been disproportionally shaped, if not defined, by African Pentecostalism.

Why do men's testicles hang outside the body?

In this spiritual memoir, Joshua Rice explores his Pentecostal history in search of a tangible theology to fall in love with.

Edited by two of the most prominent names in interfaith dialogue, this is an introduction to the complex relationships between Christianity and the other world faiths.

This book shows the paradoxical mode by which Christians keep their faith in the Christian message as they relate with science.

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.

An earnest young boy who loves nature grows up the son of a fundamentalist pastor.

The Pentecostal Hypothesis is the capacity to resist conventional wisdom in social actions.

In September 1918, World War I was nearing its end when Marguerite E.

The book is organized into three divisions, and as the title implies, there is a brief letter in the form of a New Testament epistle to the contemporary church, a portion of which begins each chapter.

In the distant future an enemy of Mankind is destroying space colonies, causing human expansion among the stars to come to a halt.

Pentecostal and Mennonite contributors to this volume have been enriched by mutual hospitality.

What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and modern science?