Understanding Your Mormon Neighbor
1,892円 In Understanding Your Mormon Neighbor, Ross Anderson seeks to help Christians relate to Latter-day Saints by giving insights into Mormon life and culture. Anderson’s work is supported both by his lifetime of experiences growing up Mormon and by current research that utilizes many Latter-day Saint...
Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend
1,779円 Over 1000 accessible, informative and authoritative entries to answer any major question about Hinduism, its mythology, practices, customs and laws. Wide-ranging topics include Hindu myths and legends, temple architecture, festivals, astrology, Ayurvedic medicine and contemporary Hinduism. Maps p...
Visits With Catholicism
496円 In the summer of 2011, for my teaching career, I took the classes necessary to be ESL certified. One of these, the Impact of Language and Culture in the Classroom, was led by an excellent instructor, who gave us the assignment to visit "cultures", or subcultures, with which we were unco...
La Bibbia di Satana
499円 Contrariamente a quanto si potrebbe pensare il Diavolo non è un’invenzione cristiana: tutte le culture più antiche infatti hanno elaborato figure antagoniste rispetto alle divinità positive. Esther Neumann è partita dai millenari culti pagani per arrivare a tracciare un ritratto completo del Prin...
A History of Religion in 5½ Objects
3,708円 A leading scholar explores the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion. Humans are needy. We need things: objects, keepsakes, stuff, tokens, knickknacks, bits and pieces, junk, and treasure. We carry special objects in our pockets and purses, and place th...
Ancient Religions, Modern Politics
4,908円 Why Islam is more political and fundamentalist than other religions Why does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If...
Martyrdom and Terrorism
4,650円 In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "bearing witness" to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian tradition, not only in the...
Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines
2,519円 More Than 1,000 Goddesses & Heroines from around the World Groundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe. Her work demonstrated that from the beginning of recorded history,...
Spirited Things
5,040円 The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into thingsーvia slaveryーand...
Pilgrim
1,709円 Lee Kravitz is adrift. Shaken deeply after 9/11 and the loss of his job, he begins to feel the pull toward rediscovering his spiritualityーa yearning long-buried since young adulthood. But in this he’s aloneーhis wife doesn’t understand why their family life can’t provide what he needs, and his f...
Religion in America
675円 It's hard to think of a single aspect of American culture, past or present, in which religion has not played a major role. The roles religion plays, moreover, become more bewilderingly complex and diverse every day. For all those who want--whether out of curiosity, necessity, or civic duty--a viv...
Ramakrishna and Christ, The Supermystics:...
1,326円 In this award-winning exploration of the lives and teachings of Ramakrishna and Christ, Paul Hourihan guides us through Ramakrishna's extraordinary struggle along the various paths to God-realization and opens our minds to intriguing new interpretations of Christ's life. The author covers Ramakri...
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