Comparative religion

This brilliant series of theological reflections from internationally known scholar and Anglican cleric Samuel Wells reflects on the challenges of our understanding of Christ's crucifixion that arise today using contemporary ideas in history, biblical studies, and philosophy.

Activities for celebrating secular and sacred seasons of the yearMany of our experiences in life happen when several generations are together-at church, at home, in our communities.

Offers a new perspective on Advent, including resourcesEveryone knows that Advent is about waiting, but author William H.

The complete works of a Franciscan friar turned Anabaptist theologian and a founder of the Mennonite church.

The dramatic story of the genesis of the Anabaptist movement, told directly through the letters of its leaders and other primary documents.

This anthology provides the best introduction to the core beliefs and foundational principles of Anabaptism.

This early Anabaptist theologian stood up to the ruling powers, calling for freedom of religion and separation of church and state.

Writings by and about an early leader in Anabaptism show how the movement coalesced around questions of community, nonviolence, and religious liberty.

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history.

The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems, by Thuken Losang Chokyi Nyima (1737-1802), is arguably the widest-ranging account of religious philosophies ever written in pre-modern Tibet.

Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest ippolito Desideri (1684 - 1733) to the Tibetan plateau.

What is the doctrine of the covenant of redemption?

The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism.

What is fundamentalism and what does it really amount to?

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.

The analysis of religion has often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies, prioritizing these elements over those of the material world.

Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand.

The last few years have seen a remarkable surge of popular interest in the topic of atheism.

The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism.

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.

The analysis of religion has often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies, prioritizing these elements over those of the material world.

The last few years have seen a remarkable surge of popular interest in the topic of atheism.

Suicide killings - both in America and Israel - have focused world attention on international terrorism.

In the nineteenth century, Nietzsche famously announced that God was dead.

This book argues that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades.

Millions of Muslims and Christians are neighbors, and they believe that they worship the one and only God.

"e;These Twelve Days"e; is an informative, entertaining family guide to understanding and celebrating the traditional twelve days after Christmas.

Master storyteller Roger Robbennolt captures the hearts of people of all ages with magical stories of a hodgepodge creche.

This book considers the implications, consequences, opportunities and constraints faced when mission and development endeavours coincide.

Conversion has been an important issue for most of the universal religions - those usually associated with a founder, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism - which have a mission to spread their message.

Indigenous religions are the majority of the world's religions.

Gender, Religion and Diversity provides an introduction to some of the most challenging perspectives in the contemporary study of gender and religion.

The claim has repeatedly been made, and has often been contested, that a single transcendent being is present or active in all of the world's major religions.

Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world.

A revolutionary examination of the often-overlooked parts of the Christmas story, Not-So-Silent Night offers fresh insights on what the message of Christmas really is.

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

Based on ethnographic research by an interdisciplinary team of scholars and activists, Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana illuminates the role that religion plays in the civic and political experiences of new migrants in the United States.

In Living Spirit, Living Practice, the well-known cultural studies scholar Ruth Frankenberg turns her attention to the remarkably diverse nature of religious practice within the United States today.

Immortal Wishes is a powerful ethnographic rendering of religious experiences of landscape, healing, and self-fashioning on a northern Japanese sacred mountain.

Bori, in the Mawri society of Niger, are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush.

For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope.

Advent is a time of preparation, of patience, of remembering what grounds and sustains us.

Faithful Neighbors outlines an introduction to the rationale for interfaith work through both theological and practical viewpoints, using stories from real experiences of interfaith cooperation to offer encouragement, inspiration, and practical steps to do the same.

Fresh, accessible, and thought-provoking look at the life and ministry of Jesus Lent is a journey of the mind, heart, and spirit from the ashes of humanity to the cross and beyond-to the empty tomb.

This thorough, carefully researched history sets church events against the background of social changes.

A selection from Underhill's enduring devotional writings, chosen for their pertinence to Lenten themes.

In John 1:48, Nathanael says to Jesus, "e;How do you know me?

Biblical and poetic reflections on Lenten themes of salvation, forgiveness, sin.

Focuses on the journey from darkness to light inherent in Lent.

This "e;everything-you-need-to-know"e; guide for newcomers to the Episcopal Church is written and designed to provide accessible and user-friendly reading, with an easy-going look and style that's packed full of substance.