Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.
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As the politics of identity begin to replace the politics of ideology, can religion become a force for peace? In a radical proposal for reconciling hatreds, Sacks argues that we must do more than search for values common to all faiths; we must also reframe the way we see our dif…
'The Dignity of Difference', written by a Jewish leader, makes a major global statement about racial, political and religious conflict in the modern world.
As the politics of identity begin to replace the politics of ideology, can religion become a force for peace? In a radical proposal for reconciling hatreds, Sacks argues that we must do more than search for values common to all faiths; we must also reframe the way we see our dif…
"Throughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundr…
"Throughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundr…
The Routledge handbook of religion and security
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"Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation is perennially controversial: Should it rightly be termed suicide? Does religion sanction it? Should it be celebrated or anathematized? At least some idealization of such self-chosen deaths is found in every …
