Comparative Religion

An exploration of the interdisciplinary methods used to understand religious practiceReligion is commonly viewed as something that people practice,...

Between the sublime confidence of both biblical fundamentalists and radical atheists lie various shades of belief, agnosticism, wishful thinking an...

In St. Augustine, Florida, stands the replicated Mission Nombre de Dios, with a 208-foot stainless steel cross marking the site of the first kno...

This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. Fro...

The long twelfth century1050 to 1215embraces one of the transformative moments in European history: the point, for some, at which Europe first trul...

The idea that there is a truth within the person linked to the discovery of a deeper, more fundamental, more authentic self, has been a common them...

In Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality, Motti Inbari undertakes a study of the culture and leadership ...

Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks ...

The story of the consecrated life in Canada since the 1960s should be about much more than numerical decline. Although the falling numbers are sign...

Learn about the religions of the world - in minutes. What are the differences between Sunni and Shi'a, Catholic and Protestant, Buddhism and Confuc...

Sunni and Shia in Iran, Iraq, or Syria. Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Afrikaners and black churches in South Africa. The rising ti...

In this interfaith book Lucinda Mosher investigates different understandings of destiny, loss, death, and remembrance in America's many religions. ...

Using a critical feminist lens, this text explores the roles and interactions of women within major world faiths. For each tradition, the text exam...

In this deeply learned work, Toshihiko Izutsu compares the metaphysical and mystical thought-systems of Sufism and Taoism and discovers that, altho...