Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
Christian and Islamic Theology of Religions
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Theologians have had to increasingly engage with beliefs and practises outside of their own traditions. The resultant "theology of religions" is, however, often formulated in isolation from the religions they are describing. This book provides a comparison of the development of theology...
Ecologies of Participation
Agents, Shamans, Mystics, and Diviners
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In this daring debut, Zayin Cabot challenges the wise homebodies of academia. A profoundly interdisciplinary approach to comparative scholarship, Ecologies of Participation offers a methodology whereby we can face our shared planetary predicament. It is grounded in process philosophy, and asserts...
The Anthropology of Western Religions
Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their...
Tastes of the Divine
Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The intensity and meaningfulness of aesthetic experience have often been described in theological terms. By designating basic human emotions as rasa, a word that connotes taste, flavor, or essence, Indian aesthetic theory conceptualizes emotional states as something to be savored. At their core, emotions...
by Lynne Cantwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
“Under a velvet sky spangled with a billion stars…”More than forty deities, representative of sixteen pantheons from around the world, have found Their way into the twelve books and assorted short stories of the Pipe Woman Chronicles story cycle. In A Billion Gods and Goddesses: The Mythology...
Calling in Today's World
Voices from Eight Faith Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Comparative religious insights into the meaning of vocation in today's world
The concept of "vocation" or "calling" is a distinctively Christian concern, grounded in the long-held belief that we find our meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in God. But what about religions...
That All May Flourish
Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Can humans flourish without destroying the earth? In this book, experts on many of the world's major and minor religious traditions address the question of human and earth flourishing. Each chapter considers specific religious ideas and specific environmental harms. Chapters are paired and the authors...
The Twin Horse Gods
The Dioskouroi in Mythologies of the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The twin deities known by the ancient Greeks as the Dioskouroi, and by the Romans as the Gemini, were popular figures in the classical world. They were especially connected with youth, low status and service, and were embraced by the common people in a way that eluded those gods associated with regal...
Truth and Error
Comparative Charts of Cults and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book is not only an introduction to the entire Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements series, but also a quick-reference guide to the groups and movements discussed in the series. Truth and Error brings together in one volume the charts from the various guides that show how the groups...
American Religions and the Family
How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Religions respond to capitalism, democracy, industrialization, feminism, individualism, and the phenomenon of globalization in a variety of ways. Some religions conform to these challenges, if not capitulate to them; some critique or resist them, and some work to transform the modern societies they...
The Battle for the Soul
A Comparative Analysis in an Age of Doubt
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Do we all possess a soul? If so, what is it? Can it be defined? Crawford argues that it is important that we have a soul because if it is immortal then we can hope for life after death. But some religions insist that it is the resurrection of the body which is vital.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
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. They pose a crucial question: can religious education contribute to a shared public sphere...
The Pilgrim Soul
A Path to the Sacred Transcending World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
“Wandering, one gathers honey,” observes the Aitareya Brahmana. In this spirit Ravi Ravindra, renowned for his integration of physics and comparative religions, explores the heart of Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism to define a universal spiritual path that transcends any tradition. People...
In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions
Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Dialogue is a recurring and significant component of Indian religious and philosophical literature. Whether it be as a narrative account of a conversation between characters within a text, as an implied response or provocation towards an interlocutor outside the text, or as a hermeneutical lens through...