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  • New Patterns for Comparative Religion

    Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective

    by William E. Paden ...
    Series series Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
    The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time. These frames, whether focused on psychology or politics, gender or colonialism, bring out perspectives for understanding religious behavior. Today one of our common civic worldviews is represented in the shift from scriptural to evolutionary history.This volume ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Religious Worlds

    The Comparative Study of Religion

    by William E. Paden ...
    From Gods, to ritual observance to the language of myth and the distinction between the sacred and the profane, Religious Worlds explores the structures common to all spiritual traditions. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

    by William D. Paden ...
    Overturning the myth that medieval marriages were loveless, shown through a close analysis of troubadour poetry and historical recordsMedieval marriages are often understood to have been loveless, due partly to assumptions about arranged matches that have been reinforced by scholars who suggest that troubadour poetry was not concerned with love but rather with poetic form and structure. In this ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon

    by William D. Paden ...
    Series Book 115 - Medieval Academy Books
    Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic, and transportation history of medieval France, offering a window onto the commercial life of Tarascon, a fortified town on the east bank of the Rhône ... Read more

    $74.19 USD

  • Interpreting the Sacred

    Ways of Viewing Religion

    by William Paden ...
    William Paden's classic exploration in religious studies, with a new introductionIn the current climate, Interpreting the Sacred provides a fresh, thorough way to consider and compare various religious belief systems. Paden puts forth the idea that our understanding of religion influences our understanding of ourselves and our world. Updated with a new introduction, this book is for anyone who ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    A Contrast

    by Rabbi Stuart Federow ...
    Many people focus on the similarities between Judaism and Christianity, but the religions are quite differentand its not just because one accepts Jesus as the messiah and the other does not.The rise of Christians calling themselves messianic Jews, the successes of Christian missionaries, Jews ingratiating themselves to Evangelical Christians because of their support for the State of Israel, the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Message and the Book

    Sacred Texts of the World's Religions

    by John Bowker, Atlantic Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd. ...
    Grand in its sweep, this survey of the sacred writings of the major religions of the world offers a thoughtful introduction to the ideas and beliefs upon which great faiths are built. Under the expert guidance of John Bowker, a religious scholar and author of international stature, readers explore the key texts of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Confucian, Daoist, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Race

    A Theological Account

    by J. Kameron Carter ...
    In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Undoing; Islam By Its Own Words

    by Abe Abel, Sol Solomon ...
    A taster of some of the content in our books "Islam Undone" and "Islamic Apocalypse". It uncovers the roots of Islamism, terror & jihad, sex-slavery, FGM & the mistreatment of women, anti-Semitism, xenophobia & genocides, in the Koran and other Islamic holy books. Proves with ease that Islam's Allah is not the same of the Jewish/Christian God Almighty, showing that the Koran does not replace, ... Read more

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  • The Cosmic Common Good

    Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics

    by Daniel P. Scheid ...
    As ecological degradation continues to threaten permanent and dramatic changes for life on our planet, the question of how we can protect our imperiled Earth has become more pressing than ever before. In this book, Daniel Scheid draws on Catholic social thought to construct what he calls the "cosmic common good," a new norm for interreligious ecological ethics. This ethical vision sees humans as ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    by Lucinda Mosher, Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Jonathan A. C. Brown, Christoph Schwobel, Ayman Shabana, Susan Eastman, Mohammad Khalil, Philip Sheldrake, Asma Afsaruddin0 ...
    Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a collection of essays and scripture passages studied at the 2014 Building Bridges seminar.Thoughtful and provocative, the book begins with the complete texts of the opening lectures by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and Jonathan A. C. Brown and contains essays by Christoph Schwöbel, Ayman Shabana, Susan Eastman, Mohammad Hassan ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Being-in-Creation

    Human Responsibility in an Endangered World

    by Bruce Ellis Benson, Norman Wirzba ...
    Series series Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
    What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thoroughgoing ordinariness, as revealed by the evolutionary history we share with all life.The contributors to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD