Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching. Issues of interreligious engagement, inclusive of dialogue more specifically and relations more generally, attract widespread interest and concern. In a religiously pluralist...
The Mirror of God
Christian Faith as Spiritual Practice--Lessons from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
What are the benefits of being a spiritual person? This is the question that James Jones explores in his newest book, The Mirror of God. Jones contends that true religious belief is not a passive process and that one must work hard towards believing in God through acts such as prayer, meditation and...
Sacred Origins of Profound Things
The Stories Behind the Rites and Rituals of the World's Religions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Charles Panati explores the origins of hundreds of religious rituals, customs, and practices in many faiths, the reasons for religious holidays and sacred symbols, and the meanings of vestments, sacraments, devotions, and prayers. Its many revelations include:
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by James David Audlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
This ebook is the COMPLETE EDITION, three times the length of the physically published version!
"The Circle of Life" presents, in written form, traditional oral Native American sacred teachings from the Iroquois, Lakota, and other traditions. The author, James David Audlin (Distant...
Encountering World Religions
A Christian Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
The diversity of the world's religions has come to the West, but believers are often ill-equipped for any kind of serious engagement with non-Christians. In Encountering World Religions, professor and author Irving Hexham introduces all the world's major religious traditions in a brief and understandable...
by Frédéric LENOIR
Language: French
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: June 20, 2013
En explorant l'histoire de toutes les religions, Frédéric Lenoir explique comment l'homme a un jour eu besoin de Dieu et l'a fait à son image.
Quelle est la toute première religion de l'humanité ? Comment sont apparues les notions de dieu, de sacrifice, de salut, de délivrance, de prière,...
Learning to Live Well Together
Case Studies in Interfaith Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In modern multi-faith societies, religious diversity not only affects religious organisations and communities, but indeed every aspect of life. From celebrating cultural events, to considering how the police should interact with members of the public from different faith communities, this book highlights...
Why can't they get along?
A conversation between a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Christians, Muslims and Jews all stem from one man, Abraham, and yet relations between them are so often strained. Three men of faith: one Jew, one Muslim and one Christian debate the differences between them. The result is a compelling discussion: What do their faiths teach on the big issues of life?...
by Bernard Levine
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Why did I leave the Jewish religion to follow Jesus? What are the strange traditions of the Jews? How do you witness to Jews about Jesus? Let the mysteries be unveiled and the truth be told!
by Bernard Levine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
This is a brand new book with information which has never been published before.
For all those who love the Jewish people and have been yearning to find out more about their religion and way of life, for every Christian who loves Jesus and would like to learn more about His Jewish roots….
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Faith on the Avenue
Religion on a City Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In a richly illustrated, revelatory study of Philadelphia's Germantown Avenue, home to a diverse array of more than 90 Christian and Muslim congregations, Katie Day explores the formative and multifaceted role of religious congregations within an urban environment. Germantown Avenue cuts through Philadelphia...
Beyond Individualism
The Challenge of Inclusive Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In many places around the world, relations between ethnic and religious groups that for long periods coexisted more or less amicably are now fraught with aggression and violence. This trend has profound international implications, threatening efforts to narrow the gap between rich and poor. Underscoring...
Mors Britannica
Lifestyle & Death-Style in Britain Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
A people's lifestyle is one thing, their death-style another. The proximity or distance between such styles says much about a society, not least in Britain today. Mors Britannica takes up this style-issue in a society where cultural changes involve distinctions between traditional religion, secularisation,...
by Jonas Yunus Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Winner of the Belgian Prize of the Religious Book 2015. (Audience award)
To acquaint himself with the soul of Islam J.Y. Atlas had openhearted conversations with influential Muslim scholars and artists. From Jakarta to New York and from London to Lahore, this Christian theologian met with imams...