Comparative religion

Whether the issue is the rise of religiously inspired terrorism, the importance of faith based NGOs in global relief and development, or campaigning for evangelical voters in the U.

Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C.

For several decades, culture played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition.

Named an Honor Book for Nonfiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationAfrican American theology has a long and important history.

In this study of everyday religious culture in early modern Syria and Palestine, James Grehan offers a social history that looks beyond conventional ways of thinking about religion in the Middle East.

Winner of the 2014 Mythopoeic Myth & Fantasy Studies AwardAt the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life believed to hold up the skies and unite and separate three worlds: Asgard, high in the tree, where the gods dwelled in their great halls; Middlegard, where human beings lived; and the dark underground world of Hel, home to the monstrous goddess of death.

The fourth century of our common era began and ended with a miracle.

The fourth century of our common era began and ended with a miracle.

At the origins of the major religious traditions one typically finds a seminal figure.

At the origins of the major religious traditions one typically finds a seminal figure.

Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places.

Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places.

The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and state policies towards religious education in seven different countries and in the European Union as a whole.

As ecological degradation continues to threaten permanent and dramatic changes for life on our planet, the question of how we can protect our imperiled Earth has become more pressing than ever before.

As ecological degradation continues to threaten permanent and dramatic changes for life on our planet, the question of how we can protect our imperiled Earth has become more pressing than ever before.

Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history.

Named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Studies as an Outstanding Book of 2014 for Mission StudiesDespite the ongoing global expansion of Christianity, there remains a lack of comprehensive scholarship on its development in Asia.

In Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth, Corinne Dempsey offers a comparative study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions.

Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world.

Christian-Muslim dialogue, going on in America for many decades, has become more intentional and serious since the events of September 11, 2001.

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

Social scientists sometimes seem not to know what to do with religion.

In recent years scholars have begun to question the usefulness of the category of 'religion' to describe a distinctive form of human experience and behavior.

The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity.

Hsieh Liang-tso (c.

While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge.

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

From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history.

The Vatican II Council of 1965 signaled a new era in the relationship of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

In an attempt to bridge the vast divide between classical Asian thought and contemporary Western philosophy, Joel J.

What does the practice of religion look like in Latin American today?

What does the practice of religion look like in Latin American today?

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "e;The Cloud Messenger,"e;) The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory.

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "e;The Cloud Messenger,"e;) The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory.

Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New York City area -- two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian.

The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to include post-Civil War Transcendentalists like Samuel Johnson, this book is encyclopedic in scope.

In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets.

Since the 1980s, religion has been most visible in American public life when issues of sexuality and reproduction are at stake.

This book compares a variety of biblical narratives with the stories found in several Northwest Semitic inscriptions from the ancient kingdom of Judah and its contemporary Syro-Palestinian neighbors.

This volume is the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation.

Esteemed scholar David Leeming, who has authored more than twelve books on mythology, here offers the first comprehensive narrative study of the mythology of the Middle East, that tumultuous region that was the cradle of civilization.

This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation.

This book is an interdisciplinary and multicultural study of ancient and contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality.

In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society.

Imag(in)ing Otherness explores relationships between film and religion, aesthetics and ethics.

The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century--from the Enlightenment to the First World War.

The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century--from the Enlightenment to the First World War.

Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain.

Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence.