Religion : Comparative Religion

"Roles of the Northern Goddess" presents a highly readable study of the worship of the pre-Christian, Northern goddesses. With its use of evidence from early......

Iconic images of medieval pilgrims, such as Chaucer's making their laborious way to Canterbury, conjure a distant time when faith was the only refuge of the ......

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority ......

Comparative Christianity: A Student's Guide to a Religion and its Diverse Traditions explores what Christians have in common and then works through the thre......

Armenian mythology was strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism, with deities such as Aramazd, Mihr or Anahit, as well as Assyrian traditions, such as Barsamin,......

In today’s multicultural society we are increasingly likely to meet and become friends with people from different religious backgrounds, and to find ou......

A physician and a chaplain show how a spiritual approach can benefit the patient as well as the healthcare provider. Author: White Author: Macdougall Author......

This spirited, enlightened book offers a powerful antidote to the paralysis of postmodern intellectual life, showing how to make sense of, and learn from, th......

In this ambitious reappraisal of American religious history, Hutchison chronicles the country's struggle to fulfill the promise of the founding ideal of reli......

How can we account for the extraordinary strength of Islam in the modern world? Are the views of the Enlightenment still an acceptable basis for social order......

This is the first comprehensive study of the role of languages and texts in the Greco-Roman religions, including Judaism and Christianity. It explores biling......

Spirit of the Environment brings spiritual and religious concerns to environmental issues. Providing a much needed alternative to exploring human beings' re......

This provocative volume provides a unique and controversial analysis of the genesis and evolution of Judaeo-Christian intellectual thought. Author: Neusner,......

Two well-known scholars, in New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism respectively, ask the question: what does it mean to translate a theory of God's presence in t......

New Religious Movements is the most comprehensive, wide-ranging study on the phenoma and impact of new religions. Author: Wilson, Bryan Author: Cresswell, J......

The first major study of the famous Reclaiming community of witches, founded in 1979 in San Francisco. Examines gendered and religious identites and the comm......

How is religious experience to be identified, described, analyzed and explained? Is it independent of concepts, beliefs, and practices? How can we account fo......

Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete context......

Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements-in early twe......

Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has ......