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The Ocean of God proposes that the future of religions will become transreligious. Its polyphilic pluralism, entertaining religious pluralism and the unity of religions mediated by process and Bahai thought, assumes the spiritual impulse of humanity, despite secularizations, naturalizations and transhumanist dreams, to further a civilized future of peace.

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Are Nirvana and Heaven the same Who are the Raelians, and why are they cloning people What's the difference between Christian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses This book explains the similarities, differences, and original ideologies of believers and skeptics around the world. It also explores 300 key religious figures, prophets, and deities.

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This book presents a comparative view of five religious traditions' resources for developing a positive appreciation for the religious other. Moving from hostility to theological hospitality and seeking the flourishing of the religious other, these traditions can offer the finest teachings on otherness and provide much needed alternatives to common perceptions of interreligious relations.

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Focuses on two significant 20th century theologians: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Pope John Paul II and their deliberations on personal fulfilment.

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Australian native May (ecumenics, Trinity College, Dublin) analyzes the encounter between the two world religions and the native religions of Papua New Guinea, where he did ecumenical work between 1983 and 1987. His goal is to identify core characteristics of each religion, and assess the comparativ

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Like taxes, death is inevitable. Everyone experiences it sooner or later. This book offers perspectives on death and dying from various major religions, written by experts in each of those religions. Focusing on the major world traditions, it offers information about what death and dying means to those practicing these faiths.

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The second edition of Understanding Fundamentalism provides a compelling and up to date picture of religious reactions against the modern secular world. Comparing Christian, Islamic, and Jewish fundamentalist movements, anthropologist Richard Antoun shows how all three share c...

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This book introduces students to major worldviews through the lens of justice and peace. The second edition features a broader framework and includes updates on non-religious ethical norms, Islamophobia, colonial evangelization, religion in China, and an updated examination of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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This is one in a series of brief books on contemporary religious movements, comparing what they believe with Christian Doctrine and explaining effective ways of witnessing to their adherents.

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Conflict between Sikhs and Muslims is often remarked upon but rarely investigated rigorously. Such conflict is typically described as being due to angry youth or ethnic hatred and religious passions. This book interrogates such explanations, by focusing upon the relationship between diaspora and the articulation of a postcolonial Sikh identity.

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This book is a concise guide to the major religions around the world. Become familiar with the history of each faith, its core beliefs, and how it is practised today. Whether you re studying theology or just want to know more about the faiths that shape our world, this clearly structured guide offers everything you need to get started.

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Accessible, entertaining introduction for undergrads, grads, and seminarians based on Professor Stephanie Mitchems thirty years in the classroom and annual trips with students to the African continent.

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A collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. It includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom, religion's social implications, law, and theology.

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Who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur'an This title presents a discussion in English of the cultural and intellectual life of such Christians indigenous to the Islamic world.

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"Previously uncollected lectures and writings that trace the evolution of the Goddess, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance, and interpret classical motifs. Offers insight into self-actualization for women. Edited and introduced by the executive director of the Opus Archives and Research Center"--Provided by publisher.