Category: Comparative Religion

By Micah Lee Issitt, Carlyn Main

ISBN-10: 1610694775

ISBN-13: 9781610694773

ISBN-10: 1610694783

ISBN-13: 9781610694780

Covering mystery societies, mysterious old traditions, and the often-mistaken background of the world's non secular symbols, this ebook takes readers on a journey throughout the interesting international of spiritual symbolism and divulges the main mysterious and misunderstood aspects of religion.

• offers interesting old and contextual information regarding non secular traditions and symbols

• Addresses the roots of a few of state-of-the-art hottest superstitions and conspiratorial theories

• Focuses totally on religions which are dominant or have gotten common in the usa, permitting scholars to realize a greater figuring out of faith in American society and bigger appreciation for cultural diversity

• Develops a different thesis approximately using spiritual archetypes to facilitate figuring out of spiritual ritual and organizations

• contains a phonetic pronunciation consultant with every one access to aid scholars develop into happy with unusual terminology

By Marjo Buitelaar, Hetty Zock

ISBN-10: 1614511705

ISBN-13: 9781614511700

ISBN-10: 1614512191

ISBN-13: 9781614512196

In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the query of the way members acceptable non secular traditions has turn into relatively appropriate. during this quantity, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians research the presence of spiritual voices in narrative structures of the self. the point of interest is at the a number of methods non secular tales and practices function in self-narratives approximately significant lifestyles transitions. The contributions discover the ways that such voices tell the lodging and interpretation of those transitions.

By Dawn Hutchinson

ISBN-10: 1443822876

ISBN-13: 9781443822879

Even though non secular innovation in the United States traditionally has been the norm instead of the exception, mainstream american citizens have frequently seen new non secular activities with suspicion and infrequently with outright alarm. The query motivating many experiences of recent spiritual hobbies has been 'why might anyone subscribe to those religions'? In 'Antiquity and Social Reform', sunrise Hutchinson bargains no less than one resolution to this usually repeated question. She argues that fans of latest spiritual routine within the 1960s-1980s, in particular the Unification Church, Feminist Wicca and the state of Yahweh, thought of those religions to be valid simply because they provided participants a private spiritual event, a connection to an old culture, and organisation in enhancing their global. using an old procedure, 'Antiquity and Social Reform' considers the conversion narratives of adherents and first literature of the early life of those routine, which demonstrates that the spiritual reports of the adherents and a resonance with the targets of those religions propelled contributors into social motion.

By Ge Ling Shang

ISBN-10: 0791482243

ISBN-13: 9780791482247

During this ebook, writer Ge Ling Shang presents a scientific comparability of unique texts through Zhuangzi (fourth century BCE) and Nietzsche (1846–1900), below the rubric of religiosity, to problem those that have mainly relegated either thinkers to relativism, nihilism, escapism, pessimism, or anti-religion. Shang heavily examines Zhuangzi’s and Nietzsche’s respective opinions of metaphysics, morals, language, wisdom, and humanity commonly and proposes a belief of the philosophical outlooks of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche as complementary. within the inventive and important spirit of Nietzsche, as within the tranquil and inward spirit of Zhuangzi, Shang argues unusually related imaginative and prescient and aspiration towards human liberation and freedom exists—one within which religious transformation is feasible via religiously putting forward lifestyles during this international as sacred and divine.

By Jacob Neusner

ISBN-10: 0195056035

ISBN-13: 9780195056037

ISBN-10: 0195079116

ISBN-13: 9780195079111

Papers provided at a convention held at Brown collage, Aug. thirteen, 1987

Every tradition makes the excellence among "true faith" and magic, concerning one motion and its consequence as "miraculous," whereas rejecting one other because the paintings of the satan. Surveying such issues as Babylonian witchcraft, Jesus the magician, magic in Hasidism and Kabbalah, and magic in Anglo-Saxon England, those ten essays offer a rigrous exam of the historical past of this contrast in Christianity and Judaism. Written by means of such individual students as Jacob Neusner, Hans Penner, Howard Kee, Tzvi Abusch, Susan R. Garrett, and Moshe Idel, the essays discover a large variety of issues, together with how convinced social teams tackle authorized practices and ideology from those who are disapproved--providing clean perception into how teams outline themselves; "magic" as an insider's time period for the outsider's faith; and the tendency of spiritual traditions to exclude the paranormal. additionally the gathering offers illuminating social, cultural, and anthropological motives for the prominence of the mystical in sure classes and literature.

By R. Saltman

ISBN-10: 1137003618

ISBN-13: 9781137003614

ISBN-10: 1137012714

ISBN-13: 9781137012715

ISBN-10: 1349434310

ISBN-13: 9781349434312

The recent Atheists' declare that faith continually results in fanaticism is baseless. State-backed faith ends up in tyranny. Sacred humanists paintings to enforce their maximum values that would increase this global; separation of church and country, doing away with denigration of nonbelievers, assuring simply governance, and fighting human trafficking.

By Bron Taylor

ISBN-10: 0520237757

ISBN-13: 9780520237759

ISBN-10: 0520944453

ISBN-13: 9780520944459

ISBN-10: 128236104X

ISBN-13: 9781282361041

"In this paintings, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of "green religions" in North the USA and past: religious practices that carry nature as sacred and feature in lots of situations changed conventional religions. Tracing a variety of teams - radical environmental activists, lifestyle-focused bioregionalists, surfers, new-agers concerned about "ecopsychology," and teams that carry clinical narratives as sacred - Taylor addresses a crucial theoretical query: How can environmentally orientated, spiritually prompted members and hobbies be understood as spiritual whilst a lot of them reject spiritual and supernatural worldviews?" "The "dark" of the identify extra expands this concept via emphasizing the intensity of believers' ardour and likewise suggesting a possible shadow aspect: along with uplifting and encouraging, such faith may lie to, misinform, or on occasion precipitate violence. This e-book offers a world journey of the golf green spiritual phenomenon, allowing readers to guage its around the world emergence and to evaluate its function in a seriously very important non secular revolution."--Jacket. Read more...

By Thomas Brudholm, Thomas Cushman

ISBN-10: 0521518857

ISBN-13: 9780521518857

A weird and interesting element of many responses to mass atrocities is the artistic and eclectic use of spiritual language and frameworks. a few crimes are so severe that they "cry out to heaven," drawing humans to hire spiritual vocabulary to make which means of and to pass judgement on what occurred, to accommodate questions of guilt and accountability, and to re-establish wish and belief of their lives. additionally, in recent times, spiritual actors became more and more influential in around the globe contexts of conflict-resolution and transitional justice. This assortment bargains a serious evaluate of the probabilities and difficulties bearing on makes an attempt to convey non secular - or semi-religious - allegiances and views to endure in responses to the mass atrocities of our time: while and the way can non secular language or non secular ideals and practices be both important or precious? And what are the issues and purposes for warning or critique? during this e-book, a bunch of distinct students discover those questions and provide more than a few unique explanatory and normative views.

By Richard C. Martin

ISBN-10: 1851681477

ISBN-13: 9781851681471

Drawing on texts either old and glossy, this e-book explores rational theology in Islam, from 9th and 10th century Mu'tazilism to rationalist modernist scholarship.

By Richard Harries

ISBN-10: 0199263132

ISBN-13: 9780199263134

The evil of the holocaust calls for a thorough reconsider of the normal Christian figuring out of Judaism. this doesn't suggest jettisoning Christianity's private convictions so that it will make it agree to Judaism. fairly, Richard Harries develops the paintings of modern Jewish scholarship to parent resonances among crucial Christian and Jewish beliefs.

This thought-provoking booklet bargains clean ways to contentious and delicate concerns. A key bankruptcy at the nature of forgiveness is sympathetic to the Jewish cost that Christians speak a lot too simply approximately forgiveness. one other bankruptcy on affliction in Judaism and Christianity rejects the standard stereotypes and argues for very important universal floor, for instance within the concept that God suffers within the ache of his humans. There also are chapters at the country of Israel and where of Jerusalem in Christian and Jewish thought.

Richard Harries argues that the fundamental covenant isn't with both Judaism or Christianity yet with humanity. those, like different religions, are diversified, particular voices in line with God's primal confirmation of human lifestyles, which for Christians is completed and given within the existence, loss of life, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

In the sunshine of this the writer maintains--controversially --that Christians shouldn't be attempting to convert Jews to Christianity. fairly Jews and Christians should still stand jointly and construct at the large amount they've got in universal to interact for a greater global.