Comparative religion

The companion to Volume 2 of The New Church's Teaching Series, Roger Ferlo's Opening the Bible, Michael Johnston's Engaging the Word teaches us how to use the critical and practical tools for reading the Bible described by Ferlo to interpret the Hebrew and Christian scriptures: what did they mean for their original audience and what do they mean for us today?

Karen Favreau is a Generation X seeker who has run the spiritual gamut.

After years of discussion within the field of anthropology concerning how to properly engage with theology, a growing number of anthropologists now want to engage with theology as a counterpart in ethnographic dialogue.

Believing in Belonging draws on empirical research exploring mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries.

Rebirth and the Stream of Life explores the diversity as well as the ethical and religious significance of rebirth beliefs, focusing especially on Hindu and Buddhist traditions but also discussing indigenous religions and ancient Greek thought.

Although humans have always migrated, the present phenomenon of mass migration is unprecedented in scale and global in reach.

The adherents of Islam and Christianity comprise half of the world's population, or 3.

No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans.

This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back onto the agenda.

How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion?

In today's polarized publics, we are rarely prepared to encounter one another peaceably and deeply across irreconcilable difference.

Pain, Passion and Faith: Revisiting the Place of Charles Wesley in Early Methodism is a significant study of the 18th-century poet and preacher Charles Wesley.

Religious Conversion: An African Perspective includes a selection of key texts which are not easily accessible elsewhere.

Is religion inherently predisposed to violence?

Adults in your church, small group, or other Christian organization are silently suffering the tragic consequences of having been sexually abused as children or youth.

In all three Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, marriage is part of God's plan for humanity, as illustrated in the Hebrew Scriptures, the New Testament, and the Koran as well as the religious literature of these three traditions

Christian theology and ethics have wrestled with the challenge to apply Jesus's central message of nonviolence to the injustices of this world.

The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue.

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

Owning the Secular examines three case studies dealing with religious symbols and cultural identity, including two public controversies over the veil in Canada - at the federal level and in the province of Quebec - and an ex-Muslim podcaster rethinking her atheist identity in the era of Donald Trump and the alt-right.

This practical pastoral care handbook, written by two self-described queer people of faith, covers the basic skills that religious caregivers and ministry students need in order to be effective, enlightened, and supportive pastoral care providers to LGBTQ persons in congregational and other community settings.

Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves.

Calvinism is named after 16th century Reformer, John Calvin whose overall theology is contained in his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559).

Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: Spirituality (Third Place [tie]).

This book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype of heretics.

We Are So Quick to Say We Want ';More' of God, but Is That Really True?

Apparently, in 1338 and well into 1339, Death showed up for a grand performance at a little village of Nestorian Christians.

Der bekannte Berner Islamwissenschaftler Johann Christoph Bürgel schildert den gewaltigen, farbig schillernden Kosmos der Liebe, wie er sich in der islamischen Literatur des 7.

In this stirring book, William H.

The most fruitful and most profound understandings of vision and visioning processes are not in organizational theories or management techniques.

Engaging Bonhoeffer documents the extraordinary impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffers life and writing on later thought.

Discover the Seven Virtues of NobilityDo you ever wonder who you are, why you are here, and what really makes life worth living?

This Element provides a comprehensive overview of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) Movement and its offshoots.

Leading systematic theologian, Paul D.

A unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society.

Church education programs for children often substitute children's Bibles for Holy Scripture and simple moralism for imagination.

Intercession is an essential element of both public and private prayer.

Not only does God still speak to us apart from the Scriptureswe should expect Him to.

Discovering how to live with dementia"e;I'm a stranger in a strange land,"e; sighed the dignified gentleman Janet L.

The global world debates secularism, freedom of belief, faith-based norms, the state's arbitration of religious conflicts, and the place of the sacred in the public sphere.

This book explores the fascinating world of religious hair observances within six religious traditions that account for 77% of the world's adherents: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.

The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time.

In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document 'A Sacred Obligation,' which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: 'Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish people is a central and indispensable obligation of theology in our time.