Author: González, Justo L Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: An introduction to the core Christian doctrines, the historical context in which they arose, and their ongoing importance to contemporary Christian belief and practice.Justo GonzĂĄlez has long been re...
Description: This handy collection contains 58 prayers that address common life experiences and concerns of graduates. Each contemporary prayer is accompanied by Scripture, making the book appropriate for use in p...
Author: Gold, Daniel Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a...
Author: Wuthnow, Robert Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Robert Wuthnow shows how music and art are revitalizing churches and religious life across the nation in this first-ever consideration of the relationship between religion and the arts. All in Sync dr...
Author: Gould, Rebecca Kneale Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision...
Author: Bellah, Robert N. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete contexts from Japan to the Middle East to the Unit...
Author: Thompson, Ross Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: It is possible to be a Christian Buddhist in the context of a universal belief that sits fairly lightly on both traditions. Ross Thompson takes especially seriously the aspects of each faith that seem...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. Chinese Religios...
Author: Becker, C.H. Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "A comparison of Christianity with Muhammedanism or with any other religion must be preceded by a statement of the objects with which such comparison is undertaken, for the possibilities which lie in ...
Author: Cragg, Kenneth B. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On the Sunday following September 11, 2001, Reverend Kenneth Cragg worshipped as usual in his sanctuary, located directly across the street from a Muslim mosque. In a miraculous act of good faith, the...
Author: Samudranath, Publisher: Blue Dolphin Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cities of Lightning is the first full and accurate presentation on the mystical revelation and Tantra of the Thunder-beings in the Oriental traditions. The Thunder-Beings are the Lords and Mothers of ...
Author: Russell, Thomas A. Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Comparative Christianity: A Student's Guide to a Religion and its Diverse Traditions explores what Christians have in common and then works through the three major subdivisions of the faith: Eastern,...
Author: Neusner, Jacob Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Both Judaism and Islam define the character of the social order, morality and theology through law, reflecting the shared view that there is nothing in human life beyond the scope of divine concern. B...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Wisdom Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How should we view religions that are different from our own? In a world where misunderstandings and disagreements between cultures and faiths are commonplace, this fascinating book, the first in a n...
Author: Taylor, Bron Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of "green religions" in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases repl...
Author: Johnson, Paul Christopher Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "pasts." This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomeno...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An A to Z companion to 2,000 years of encounter between Judaism and Christianity, A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations is a pioneering work which explores and defines the many factors which char...
Author: Pike, Sarah M. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outc...
Author: Salomonsen, Jone Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first major study of the famous Reclaiming community of witches, founded in 1979 in San Francisco. Examines gendered and religious identites and the communal and ritual processes of Reclaiming.
Description: Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850Â1928) was an independent scholar who specialized in medieval Arthurian texts. In 1920, at the age of seventy, she published From Ritual to Romance, which examines the root...
Author: Ruether, Rosemary Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""The scholarship in this book is superior, revealing a depth of insight and a scope of knowledge possible only from a scholar who has lived with the concerns of feminist theology for decades. Ruether...
Author: Shattuck, Cybelle Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Hinduism is a concise and readable survey of the history of Hinduism. Focusing particularly on the modern period, it provides a valuable introduction to contemporary Hindu beliefs and practices.
Author: Rowe, David L. Publisher: Baker Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: David L. Rowe asserts that many Mormons view Christian witnessing as Bible bashing. What Christians need to understand, he suggests, is that Latter-day Saints are an entirely separate ethnic group wit...
Author: Dillon, Michele / Wink, Paul Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the Course of a Lifetime provides an unprecedented portrait of the dynamic role religion plays in the everyday experiences of Americans over the course of their lives. The book draws from a unique ...
Author: Jordan, Sinda Publisher: Blue Dolphin Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sinda Jordan began receiving messages from the Archangels in 1993. Over the course of a year, the angels dictated many inspiring lessons, which Sinda compiled into "letters" for everyone to read. Each...
Author: Neusner, Jacob Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: With an emphaisis on communities of faith, this accessible book will introduce students to the classic texts, important events, key figures, defining rituals, essential creeds and symbols of world rel...
Author: TIRRI, SARAH Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Is This the Best God Could Do? (nonfiction, approximately 115.000 words) was born of a crisis of faith of the most cruel kind, the loss of my mother who lingered on the brink death for five weeks, and...
Author: Corduan, Winfried Publisher: InterVarsity Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The world hasn't really shrunk--it just feels like it. Not all adherents of Islam live halfway around the globe. Some of them live halfway down the block. Encounters with Muslims, whether as fe...
Author: Farooq, Asad Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The amazing discoveries presented here cast new light on the words of the Bible and join the worldâs major faiths under the banner of âLove for All, Hatred for None.â Jesus & Moses in India ...
Author: Neusner, Jacob Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Jewish and Christian Doctrines: The Classics Compared" presents a concise and lucid introduction to the foundations of Judaism and Christianity. The authors explore key documents of Judaism and Chris...
Author: De La Torre, Miguel A. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For many in Miami's Cuban exile community, hating Fidel Castro is as natural as loving one's children. This hatred, Miguel De La Torre suggests, has in fact taken on religious significance. In La Luch...
Author: Urban, Hugh B. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic-the us...
Author: Scott, Robert A. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 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 ill and infirm, and thousands traveled grea...
Author: Scott, Robert A. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Scott has written a magnificent book on the realities of religious healing. He brings sensibility, reason, impressive insight, and the best information to bearâÂÂqualities seldom manifested in the...
Author: Desideri, Ippolito Publisher: Wisdom Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This life-affirming, instructive and thoroughly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who is-or who might one day be-sick. And it can also be the perfect gift of guidance, encouragement, and uplift...
Description: This life-affirming, instructive and thoroughly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who is-or who might one day be-sick. And it can also be the perfect gift of guidance, encouragement, and uplift...
Author: Řdegaard, Cecilie Vindal Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exploring how people from Andean communities seek progress and social mobility by moving to the cities, Cecilie Ădegaard demonstrates the changing significance of kinship, reciprocity and ritual in...
Author: Medearis, Carl Publisher: Bethany House Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Based on the author's twenty-five years of first-hand experience, this engaging book reveals what Islam really teaches and how today's Muslims live and think. With practical information and personal ...
Author: Beverley, James Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A comprehensive introduction to the religions of the world analyzed from a Christian perspective Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions covers more than 200 religions, sects, and cults, most of them...
Description: alert those outside of the Christian faith about the dangers of false teaching that are keeping them from a Savior who has offered them eternal life..................
