Comparative Religion

Religious controversies frequently center on origins, and at the origins of the major religious traditions one typically finds a seminal figure. Names such as Jesus, Muhammad, Confucius, and Moses are well known, yet their status as "founders" has not...

Inter-religious relations in India are notoriously fraught, not infrequently erupting into violence. This book looks at a place where the conditions for religious conflict are present, but active conflict is absent. Bigelow focuses on a Muslim majority...

The idea of the pre-existence of the soul has been extremely important, widespread, and persistent throughout Western history - from even before the philosophy of Plato to the poetry of Robert Frost. When Souls Had Wings offers the first systematic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898723486Author Jeaneane D. FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 431Imprint Sussex Academic PressPublisher Liverpool University Press

Written by top practitioner-scholars who bring a critical yet empathetic eye to the topic, this textbook provides a comprehensive look at peace and violence in seven world religions. Offers a clear and systematic narrative with coverage of Buddhism,...

This book is unique in its focus and coverage, because no titles have been published on the subject in recent years, despite the increased interest in questions of religious truth as witnessed by the increasing number of articles in relevant journals. It...

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...

As corporate and governmental agencies march us towards global conflict, racism, and imperialism, this book contends that teachers must have the tools with which to combat unilateral politicization of Arabic and Muslim peoples. Teaching Against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877072447Author Roy Eugene DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint CSA Press PublishersPublisher CSA PressWeight(grams) 45g

Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions-the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita-inviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737176305Author Mark ChristianFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Fidelis Publishing, LLCPublisher Fidelis Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change?News reports about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835606134Author Rick JarowFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Theosophical Publishing House (division of TheosopPublisher Theosophical Publishing...

In The European Encounter with Hinduism Jan Peter Schouten offers an account of European travellers coming into contact with the Hindu religion in India. From the thirteenth century on, both traders and missionaries visited India and encountered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393543209Author Joseph LaycockFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

The World's Religions provides an orientation to the study of religion. Surveying the stages of development, worldviews, and current situations of the major world religions, this text discusses the ways these religions respond to contemporary ethical...

Historically, religious scriptures are defined as holy texts that are considered to be beyond the abilities of the layperson to interpret. Their content is most frequently analyzed by clerics who do not question the underlying political or social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835608053Author Joseph S. WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

Finding Beauty in the Other explores how beauty can be found in religions and cultures. It also views how the beauty of the Christian gospel should be communicated in different religious and cultural settings. This valuable collection of essays features...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835600071Author Bhagavan DasFormat PaperbackPage Count 750Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

In Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation, Joshua Samuel constructs an embodied comparative theology of liberation by comparing divine possessions among Hindu and Christian Dalits in South India. Critiquing the problems inherent in prioritizing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783506791276Author John SandersFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Brill U SchoninghPublisher Brill U SchoninghWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

From its most cosmopolitan urban centers to the rural Midwest, the United States is experiencing a rising tide of religious interest. While terrorist attacks keep Americans fixed on an abhorrent vision of militant Islam, popular films such as The Passion...

Clothing, dress, and ornamentation are crucial parts of individual and communal religious life and practice, yet they are too often overlooked. This book convenes leading scholars to explore the roles of attire and adornment in the creation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670092956Author Tanweer FazalFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint VintagePublisher Penguin Random House India

Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else - symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way...

The attacks of September 11, 2001 instantly heightened the American public's sensitivity toward matters of religious difference. Many Americans realized not only that non-Muslims need to learn more about Islam, but also that Muslims must better...

This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics-works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others-this volume aims to...

In popular imagination, saints exhibit the best characteristics of humanity, universally recognizable but condensed and embodied in an individual. Recent scholarship has asked an array of questions concerning the historical and social contexts of...

Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916904675Author Steven ColborneFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Tealight BooksPublisher Tealight BooksWeight(grams) 242gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800631093Author Bruce ChiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800632168Author Daniel C. MaguireFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Sociologists, historians, and other social observers have long considered the secularization of American public life over the past hundred and thirty years to be an inevitable and natural outcome of modernization. This groundbreaking work rejects this...

A rapid development of religious popular cultures and lifestyles can be observed across the globe. This book provides unique case studies from Asia and Europe illustrating new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatisation, all of...

This book examines the complex relationship between religion and human rights. This book examines the complex relationship between religion and human rights.About the AuthorLiam Gearon holds a University Lectureship in Religious Education at the Oxford...

The first two parts of this book present four detailed historical studies, filled with Geertzian "thick description," of the encounters of Christianity and Buddhism (universal religions with a high quotient of "transcendence") with various primal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800662752Author Darrell JodockFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

First work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and his influence on the development of religious studies and Islamic studies in the twentieth century.This is the first work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000), whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898723493Author Jeaneane D. FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 431Imprint Sussex Academic PressPublisher Liverpool University Press