The Illustrated Guide To World Religions
Graced with rich illustrations and written by a team of eminent scholars, this book presents a wealth of information on faiths around the world. Each chapter in this volume examines one of seven major...
The Oxford Handbook Of Religion And Ecology
The last two decades have seen the emergence of a new field of academic study that examines the interaction between religion and ecology. Theologians from every religious tradition have confronted wor...
The Ways Of Religion: An Introduction To The Major Traditions, 3rd Edition
Revised and updated, the third edition of this highly acclaimed anthology surveys all the major religious traditions--Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Africa...
Religious Ambiguity And Religious Diversity
This study looks at two central religious issues--the religious ambiguity of the world and the diversity of faiths--and probes their implications for religious beliefs. Author Robert McKim offers a se...
Religious Reading: The Place Of Reading In The Practice Of Religion
What social conditions and intellectual practices are necessary in order for religious cultures to flourish? Paul Griffiths finds the answer in "religious reading" --- the kind of reading in which a r...
The Enigma Of The Oceanic Feeling: Revisioning The Psychoanalytic Theory Of Mysticism
This study examines the history of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism, starting with the seminal correspondence between Freud and Romain Rolland concerning the concept of "oceanic feeling." Provid...
Can God Be Trusted? Faith And The Challenge Of Evil
In this persuasive and compassionate argument for faith in the face of evil, Stackhouse goes beyond Rabbi Kushner, M. Scott Peck, and others to take a more historically informed approach, examining wh...
A Dictionary Of Creation Myths
From cosmic eggs and the Garden of Eden to the Spider Woman and the Gaia Principle, from myths of the Apocalypse and the great world religions to myths of love, re-birth, and science, this guide illum...
Discourse And The Construction Of Society: Comparative Studies Of Myth, Ritual, And Classification
In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together--and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society ...
God: Myths Of The Male Divine
Illustrating their points with materials ranging from the prehistoric cave paintings to the mystic Jewish Kabbalah, from the ancient Indian Vedas to tales of the North American Indians and other myths...
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