Like a mighty army moves the church of God; Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod. We are not divided, all one body we. One in hope and doctrine, one in charity. -- From the nineteenth-century hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" What keeps America a country of religious practice and traditional values? How has the U.S. avoided suc-cumbing to total secularism? The answer to these provocative questions is found in the religious commun-ities of America today: In the past t...
Connect Access Card for Scriptures of the World's Religions
by James Fieser and Professor of Religious Studies John Powers
Psalms and Liturgy (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament) (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
by Dirk J Human, Dr.
Georg Simmels Religionstheorie (Religion Und Aufklarung, #4)
by Volkhard Krech
Georg Simmel hat sich Zeit seines Lebens mit Fragen der Religion befasst. Birgt sein Gesamtwerk aber auch eine konsistente Religionstheorie? Wahrend sich die Forschung entweder auf die philosophischen oder die soziologischen Teile des Werks konzentriert, untersucht Volkhard Krech die teils fragmentarischen und verstreuten Texte Simmels zu Themen der Religion im gesamten werkgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang. Auf dieser Rekonstruktionsbasis verortet er den Ansatz Simmels im religionswissenschaftlichen...
Body and Hope (Dogmatik in der Moderne, #5)
by Johanne Stubbe Teglbjaerg Kristensen
In this book, Johanne Stubbe Teglbjaerg Kristensen analyses the relationship between body and hope. She critically investigates the eschatologies of Paul Tillich, Jurgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg from the perspective of the phenomenology of the body represented by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By focusing on the eschatological challenge of the body through a thematization of the issue of continuity, the author constructively interprets the classic eschatological themes of death, resurrection, ju...
The patriarch Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi headed the independent Jewish leadership institutions in Roman Palestine at the turn of the second and third centuries CE. He conducted the affairs of the patriarchate with a high hand, was renowned for his learning and behaved like a kind of anointed king. He was also incredibly rich, a consummate politician, and close to the Roman authorities. He made taqqanot (reforms) in the light of circumstances, and tried to cancel mitzvoth (religious regulations), such a...
Zur Theorie Des Opfers (Collegium Philosophicum, #1)
by Richard Schenk
An Introduction to the Study of Some Living Religions of the East (Classic Reprint)
by Sydney Cave
Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude (Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions)
by Hyo-Dong Lee
We live in an increasingly global, interconnected, and interdependent world, in which various forms of systemic imbalance in power have given birth to a growing demand for genuine pluralism and democracy. As befits a world so interconnected, this book presents a comparative theological and philosophical attempt to construct new underpinnings for the idea of democracy by bringing the Western concept of spirit into dialogue with the East Asian nondualistic and nonhierarchical notion of qi. The bo...
Belief, Bounty, and Beauty (Numen Book, #108) (Numen Books: Studies in the History of Religions, #108)
by Albertina Nugteren
This study is focused on the interaction of material and symbolic values in the domain of sacred trees in India. By presenting samples from 3,000 years of Indian ritual practice, it is shown that in many sacred geographies trees continue to connect the present with the past, the material with the symbolic, and the contemporary ecological with the traditionally sacred. Although in India religion may have become very much a temple cult, its embeddedness in the natural world enhances today's 'green...
Religious Fundamentalism in Developing Countries (Contributions to the Study of Religion)
by Santosh C Saha and Thomas K Carr
These are not obscure teachers that Hanegraaff unmasks. We know their names. We have seen their faces, sat in their churches, and heard them shamelessly preach and promote the false pretexts of a give-to-get gospel. They are virtual rock stars who command the attention of presidential candidates and media moguls. Through make-believe miracles, urban legends, counterfeit Christs, and twisted theological reasoning, they peddle an occult brand of metaphysics that continues to shipwreck the faith of...
Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition (Numen Book, #112)
by Karin Finsterbusch and Armin Lange
This volume asks to which extent ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. The first part of the volume, on antiquity, focuses on rituals of human sacrifice and polemics against it, as well as on transformations of human sacrifice in the Israelite-Jewish and Christian cultures, while the Ancient Near East and ancient Greece are not excluded. The second part of the volume, on medieval and modern times, discusses human sacrifice...
Humans have been chasing immortality since the beginning of history, seeking answers to sickness and aging, death and the afterlife, and questioning the human condition. Analyzing ideas from ancient Sumer, Egypt, Greece and India, as well as the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this study explores how early religious models influenced later beliefs about immortality, the afterlife, the human soul, resurrection, and reward and punishment. The author highlights shared teachi...
Theo-Monistic Mysticism (Library of Philosophy and Religion)
by Michael Stoeber
In response to some of the current explanations of mystic phenomena, this book proposes an interpretive framework for understanding mysticism. It clarifies various kinds of mystical experiences, suggesting they are not wholly determined by subjective categories of interpretation, and illustrates how they can be synthesized in a theistic, mystic teleology. In reference to Ramanuja, Aurobinodo, Sankara, Eckhart, Ruusbroec and Boehme, monistic experiences are understood to culminate in higher theis...
Many religious people are alarmed about features of the current age - violence in the media, a pervasive hedonism, a marginalization of religion, and widespread abortion. These concerns influence politics, but just as there should be a separation between church and state, so should there be a balance between religious commitments and secular arguments calling for social reforms. Robert Audi offers a principle of secular rationale, which does not exclude religious grounds for action but which rul...