Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
Muslims, Christians, and Jesus
Understanding the World of Islam and Overcoming the Fears That Divide Us
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An Acclaimed Guide to Understanding Today's Muslim, Completely Updated
Carl Medearis provides new insights into the top questions people have about Muslims and Islam. With practical information and fascinating stories, he shares culturally sensitive ways for Christians to get to know Muslims...
Christ in His Fullness
A Protestant Minister Discovers the Fullness of Christ in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Christ In His Fullness details the journey of Bruce Sullivan into the Catholic Church. This book presents a full-length treatment of the primary issue that propelled Bruce on his journey, namely that of authority. But perhaps more importantly, it emphasizes in a positive way the great gift awaiting all who will embrace the Catholic faith, the gift of having Christ in all of His fullness.
Age of the Sages
The Axial Age in Asia and the Near East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
By setting traditions and thinkers such as Zoroaster, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Gautama Buddha, Confucius, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle side by side, we are able to see more clearly the questions with which they struggled, their similarities and differences, and how their ideas have influenced religious thought down to our day.
by Barry Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
In this book you can explore many fascinating subjects, including:
Devil Worship ... Doomsday Cults ... Zombies ... Hungry Ghosts ... Fire Walking ... the Grim Reaper ... Witch Smellers ... Human Sacrifice ... Holy Mud ... Dervishes ... Sacred Mushrooms ... the Dance of Death ... Snake Handlers ......
Wading Through Many Voices
Toward a Theology of Public Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Wading through Many Voices brings together the voices of Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Native American, and Euro-American scholars to produce a dialogue of public theology: how faith-communities, divided by race, class, ethnicity, and gender, can find a common ground for life together....
Rays of the One Light
Weekly Commentaries on the Bible & Bhagavad Gita
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Parallell passages from the Judeo-Christian Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita of India reveal a single unified teaching. East meets West and theological barriers tumble. Two Scriptures become one Truth.
Mount Fuji
Icon of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive...
Salaam/Shalom
A Jewish Teacher in an Islamic School
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Salaam/Shalom is the true story of a Jewish womans experiences as a teacher in an Islamic school as she embraces a beautiful awakening and learns to focus on likenesses rather than differences.
Janet Goldman relies on extensive research and her own personal experiences during her two years...
Of Promises and Previews
Urgent Old Messages for a New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2001
This unprecedented book unites the essential messages delivered by the Prophets of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Their combined teachings reveal a single, harmonious story that has been smothered by the doctrines severely dividing the individual organized religions. In this era when hatreds can...
by Alexander Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers. Gersonides is recognized by scholars as one of the most innovative Jewish philosophers of the medieval period. His first model of virtue is a response to the seemingly capricious forces...
by Philip Graham Ryken
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
We’ve all heard people say it: “The problem with Christians is that they think Jesus is the only way to heaven.” Even reason says: We go to the college of our choice, watch the cable channel of our choice, and eat the food of our choice. So why can’t we pray to the god of our choice and get...
by Thomas Keating
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
For a quarter of a century, Trappist monk Fr. Thomas Keating has been contributing articles on Centering Prayerthe contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian contemplative traditionto the newsletter of Contemplative Outreach, the organization that he helped establish to promote this tradition....
Buddhist Christianity
A Passionate Openness
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
It is possible to be a Christian Buddhist in the context of a universal belief that sits fairly lightly on both traditions. Ross Thompson takes especially seriously the aspects of each faith that seem incompatible with the other, no God and no soul in Buddhism, for example, and the need for grace and...
International Conflict Analysis in South Asia
A Study of Sectarian Violence in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
International Conflict Analysis in South Asia: A Study of Sectarian Violence in Pakistan analyzes the ideological relationship of the Muslim identity to its perceived practice of Islam among the Shia and Deobandi sects. A Muslim identity, defined as the parameters of who is and who isn’t a Muslim...