"This volume brings together scholars of religion to identify and examine conceptions and interpretations of dignity within different religious and philosophical perspectives (including Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Islam, and Humani…
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Mystical experience and religious doctrine
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The women of communities in Hindu India and Christian Orthodox Finland alike offer lamentations and mockery during wedding rituals. Catholic women of southern Italy perform tarantella on pilgrimages while Muslim Berger girls recite poetry at Moroccan weddings. Around the world, …
There is no single standard textbook that outlines the official Roman Catholic theological position in relation to other religions which then explicates this orientation theologically and phenomenologically in relation to the four main religions of the world and the flowering of…
Main description: It is crucial today to understand how religions can exist harmoniously in a shared environment, whether local or global. A reasoned approach to this question was sought by participants at a stimulating conference of the International Association for the History…
Main description: This collection of essays analyzes?tradition' as a category in the historical and comparative study of religion. The book questions the common assumption that tradition is simply the 0passing down0 or imitation of prior practices and discourses. It begins from …
This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the globalization of religious culture and society around the world in both its historical and contemporary aspects.
The Oxford handbook of religion and violence
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The world's?great? religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds…
"Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, revives the search for wisdom for modern times" (Provided by publisher).
We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine." For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their m…
