Comparative religion

Die argumentierende Teilnahme am Dialog mit anderen Religionen und Weltanschauungen und die kompetente Unterscheidung von lebensförderlichen und lebensfeindlichen Formen von Religionen sind ein zentrales Anliegen kompetenzorientierten Religionsunterrichts.

Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish tradition have moved towards each another over the centuries and points to new pathways for contemporary theological work.

In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple applied to erect a statue of Baphomet alongside the Judeo-Christian tablets.

This book discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo.

This volume looks at how mid-seventeenth-century debates on the government and order of the Church related to the political crisis of the time.

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

Is it really possible to find peace during one of the busiest and stress-filled times of the year?

Pastors and counselors regularly minister to people whose marriages or families are in crisis.

One of the critical issues in interreligious relations today is the connection, both actual and perceived, between sacred sources and the justification of violent acts as divinely mandated.

If you have ever looked into the eyes of a parent who is heartbroken over a wayward child, then you have seen one of the worst types of pain imaginable.

What is the role of scripture in illuminating the lives of the faithful today?

Monotheism is a powerful religious concept shaped by competing ideas and the problems they raised.

Must reading for anyone feeling too busy or too stressed and seeking to simplify their lifeto listen to the longings of their heart.

UNMASKING BUDDHISM Can we talk of Buddhism as a unified religion or are there many Buddhisms?

Covering eclectic topics ranging from South Asian religion to motherhood to world dance to ethnomusicology, this book focuses on contemporary selected experiences of women and how their lives interface with religion.

His reflections on some of the ways we might answer these questions in the church today became the twelve short chapters of this book.

In the last months of his long life, Cardinal Konig expressed the wish to record what was most important as a way forward for the Church and for Christians generally.

Called: Recovering Lutheran Principles for Ministry and Vocation explores vocation and the call to ministry from a Lutheran perspective and reveals their promise for the wider church.

The scientific method is often assumed to provide particularly secure knowledge.

Over the past three decades, American evangelical Christians have undergone unexpected, progressive shifts in the area of race relations, culminating in a national movement that advocates racial integration and equality in evangelical communities.

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia.

Reconstructs the idea of the creation of man in the image of God attributed in the Midrash and the Talmud.

In dieser Darstellung wird die gesamte Geschichte Ägyptens in den Blick genommen: von ihren Anfängen bis zum Ende dieser Kultur, mit dem auch die Praxis der Religion der Pharaonen endete.

Renowned scholar David VanDrunen tracks the historical and biblical roots of the idea that all glory belongs exclusively to God.

Companionship and strategies for job seekersMillions of people become unemployed every year, yet when job loss happens to us, we typically feel completely alone and often lost, ashamed, and afraid.

As a global religion with growing numbers of expressions, Christianity calls for deepening relationships across traditions while also formulating collaborative visions.

In her bestselling preaching autobiography Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the Episcopal Church.

For believers and skeptics alike, A Doubter's Guide to World Religions introduces the five major world religions so that you can explore their similarities and differences in a fair and engaging way.

This STUDY GUIDE is a companion resource to Wayne Grudem's Christian Beliefs, revised edition.

Like Ripples on Water is, first of all, a book about Russian Baptists and their preaching.

Zwischen "Bibel" und "Kultur" besteht eine dreitausend Jahre alte Wechselbeziehung.

This book proposes a comprehensive theory of the loss of religion in human societies, with a specific and substantive focus on the contemporary United States.

Inspired by Father Alfred Delp, who wrote a meditation titled "e;The Shaking Reality of Advent"e; while imprisoned by the Nazis during WWII, Bishop Peter B.

This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Drawing on the graphic and revealing evidence recorded by the different courts in early modern Saragossa, this book captures the spirit of an age when religious faith vied for people's hearts and minds with centuries-old beliefs in witchcraft and superstition.

According to tradition, Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible.

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Through extensive use of primary resources and fieldwork, this detailed study examines overseas Shinto shrines and their complex role in the colonization and modernization of newly Japanese lands and subjects.

The term 'mysticism' has never been consistently defined or employed, either in religious traditions or in academic discourse.

The field of Binaural Hearing involves studies of auditory perception, physiology, and modeling, including normal and abnormal aspects of the system.

The Lenten journey is a shared journeyChristians join with others along the way of faith, following Jesus and seeking to live out the will and purpose of God.

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.

God wants our days to be abundant and thriving!

In these meditations on the lesser feasts and fasts of the church calendar Sam Portaro asks the question, "e;What do these saints and commemorations have to say to Christians today?