Comparative Religion

El Filioque es una de las cuestiones más largas y complejas de la historia del dogma cristiano. Se cuenta todavía entre las causas de la división e...

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism inherited many negative doctrines around women’s bodies, which in some early Buddhist texts were presented as an obstacle to ...

Today’s globalized society faces some of humanity’s most unprecedented social and environmental challenges. Presenting inspiring and effective appr...

In The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity, H. Sidky examines shamanism as an ancient magico-religious, divinatory, medical, and ...

This collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: J...

Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the statement that decla...

For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields a...

One of the biggest challenges for relations between religions is the view of the religious Other. The question touches the roots of our theological...

In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, Allen G. Jorgenson asks what Christian theologians might learn from Indigenous spiritualties ...

As globalization proceeds at an ever increasing and more unrelenting pace, relations among the world’s religions are taking on both a new visibilit...

In The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity, H. Sidky examines shamanism as an ancient magico-religious, divinatory, medical, and ...

Aristotle accurately characterized humans as political animals. Whether through birth or from choice, people naturally cluster into groups for pro...

Aristotle accurately characterized humans as political animals. Whether through birth or from choice, people naturally cluster into groups for pro...

This collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: J...

In Chapter 38:21-25, the Qur’an relates a very short narrative about the biblical King David’s seeking and receiving God’s forgiveness. The earlies...

Mystical Science and Practical Religion examines the religious discourse employed by Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh applied science professionals and stud...

The idea of a Jewish Church has been banned from the Christian horizon for almost two millennia. But things are changing. Since the middle of the 7...

Unseen presences. Apparitions. Hearing voices. Although some people would find such experiences to be distressing and seek clinical help, others pe...

This book explores two influential intellectual and religious leaders in Christianity and Buddhism, Bonaventure (c. 1217–74) and Chinul (1158–1210)...

This path-breaking book sets aside the traditional story of the life of Muhammad, and inquires into the internal history of the Qur'an itself. Draw...

This book is an exploration of what would seem to be a simple question, but is actually the object of a profound quest—“who is a Jew?” This is a de...

This book is an investigation of wisdom in its diverse nature and types. Wisdom may be as everyday as folk adages or as arcane as a religious parab...

This book explores the notion of interreligious friendship. Friendship is one of the outcomes as well as conditions for advancing interfaith relati...

This book tackles the core problem of how painful historical memories between diverse religious communities continue to impact, even poison, presen...

This book provides a critical investigation into Sikh and Muslim conflict in the postcolonial setting. Being Sikh in a diasporic context creates ch...

“Enjoying religion” seems to be a contradiction because religion is generally perceived as a serious or even suppressive phenomenon. This volume is...

In the capital city of Nairobi, Kenya, African Catholic and Sunni Muslim leaders addressing HIV and AIDS are faced with a unique challenge. On the ...

This book about the missing Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism chronicles a personal as well as an academic quest of an Indian woman who g...

This book, based upon a Jordan Lecture in Comparative Religion of 1959, traces the development of mystical thought during the formative periods of ...

This book makes a compelling case for male-female religious complementarity in many of the world’s religions. It offers an extensive survey of fema...

This book, entitled Conversations on Fethullah Gülen and the Hizment Movement: Dreaming for a Better World, is intended to represent an open perspe...