By S. Hamilton

By Ahmad Atif Ahmad (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230619568

ISBN-13: 9780230619562

ISBN-10: 1349376310

ISBN-13: 9781349376315

By Woodhead, Linda

ISBN-10: 0203398491

ISBN-13: 9780203398494

ISBN-10: 0203399404

ISBN-13: 9780203399408

ISBN-10: 0415217830

ISBN-13: 9780415217835

ISBN-10: 0415217849

ISBN-13: 9780415217842

By G. W. Trompf

ISBN-10: 0521416914

ISBN-13: 9780521416917

During this bold examine, the 1st monograph on faith and "the common sense of retribution," Professor Trompf exhibits how quite a few points of "payback," either destructive and optimistic, give you the top indices to an realizing of Melanesian perspectives of existence. The booklet explores the explanations why humans "pay again" and opens up a complete new size within the cross-cultural research of human awareness. the writer conducts his readers throughout the most intricate anthropological competition on the earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.

By Robert Brown

Writer: London, D. Bogue; [etc., and so on. topics: Zoroastrianism faith Notes: this can be an OCR reprint. there's various typos or lacking textual content. There aren't any illustrations or indexes. in case you purchase the final Books variation of this ebook you get loose trial entry to Million-Books.com the place you could make a choice from greater than one million books at no cost. you can even preview the publication there.

By Slavica Jakelic, Lori Pearson

ISBN-10: 9004123172

ISBN-13: 9789004123175

This quantity brings jointly different voices from numerous fields inside of non secular and theological experiences for a talk in regards to the right items, ambitions, and techniques for the examine of faith within the twenty-first century. It methods those questions when it comes to the newest modern demanding situations, debates, and advancements within the box, and gives a discussion board within which contending views are confirmed and contested by means of their proponents and competitors. participants handle themes akin to: the relationship among the ‘normative’ and the ‘scientific’ techniques to the examine of faith, the which means of faith in a context of globalization, the relation among non secular reports and non secular traditions, the viability of comparative and cultural stories of spiritual phenomena, and the way forward for gender stories in faith.

By Robert E. Van Voorst

ISBN-10: 0495503878

ISBN-13: 9780495503873

ANTHOLOGY of global SCRIPTURES is a complete choice of scriptures from the key international religions, together with: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in addition to scriptures from more moderen spiritual events. The textual content provides scripture readings in context, supplying you with a framework that exhibits how each one faith is really practiced at the present time, in addition to its historical past, teachings, association, ethics and rituals. The readings are supported by means of introductions, learn questions, glossaries, and proposals for additional interpreting, supplying extra instruments for overview.

By Gary Lease

ISBN-10: 3110143232

ISBN-13: 9783110143232

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By Kevin McDonald

ISBN-10: 1405116129

ISBN-13: 9781405116121

ISBN-10: 1405116137

ISBN-13: 9781405116138

ISBN-10: 1405153180

ISBN-13: 9781405153188

The prior decade has witnessed a unprecedented upward push of recent international pursuits that throw into query the way in which we predict approximately tradition, strength, and motion in a globalizing international. This ebook surveys the sector and explores probably the most major of those hobbies, together with antiglobalization and the recent Islamic pursuits. those activities require a rethinking of the very proposal of social move, an idea that owes very much to the civic and business tradition that used to be so severe to Western modernity, yet might be much less enough whilst exploring different types of tradition, motion, and verbal exchange in a globalized global. This publication explores key dimensions of those events, the tensions they confront, and the crises to which they're topic. it's going to supply a vital textual content for college kids on globalization and social routine.

By William Albert Graham

ISBN-10: 0521331765

ISBN-13: 9780521331760

The concept that of "scripture" as written non secular textual content is reexamined during this shut research of the traditions of oral use of the sacred writings of religions world wide. stating the relevant value of the oral and aural event of non secular texts within the lifetime of non secular groups of either jap and Western cultures, William Graham asserts the necessity for a brand new viewpoint on how scripture has been appropriated and utilized by the majority of every body who've been spiritual, such a lot of whom might neither learn nor write.