Category: Comparative Religion

By Arvind Sharma, Katherine K. Young

Addressing faith and feminism on an international scale, this unheard of booklet encompasses a nuanced and fine-tuned therapy of 7 of the world's religions from a feminist standpoint by means of major girls students. Feminism and global Religions includes chapters on Hinduism by means of Vasudha Narayanan, Buddhism by means of Rita M. Gross, Confucianism by means of Terry Woo, Taoism by way of Karen McLaughlin and Eva Wong, Judaism by way of Ellen M. Umansky, Christianity by means of Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Islam through Riffat Hassan, in addition to a common advent and a postscript by means of Katherine ok. younger and a preface via Arvind Sharma. the truth that those authors percentage a twin yet undivided dedication either to themselves as girls and to their traditions as adherents imparts to their voices a prophetic caliber, and if Mahatma Gandhi is to be believed, even scriptural price.

By Connie Barlow

In a provocative booklet that's certain to be arguable, Connie Barlow places forth a compelling case for breaching the barrier among technology and religion-in influence, for a reunification of information and that means. Evolutionary biology, rendered as an Epic of Evolution, offers a strong starting place tale applicable for our instances. Conservation biology, ecology, and Gaia idea all demonstrate how we slot in with the wildlife; Barlow argues that they can't in simple terms tell our ethics but in addition extend our feel of that means. In dozens of surprisingly candid conversations with major scientists and philosophers, she offers an rising view of a brand new which means for technology in our lives-and why this new that means is important for our occasions. "Green house, eco-friendly Time may possibly good mark a turning aspect in humanity's afflicted dating with nature." -John Davis Editor, Wild Earth Magazine

By Ivan Strenski

In this selection of eleven essays the writer outlines a programme of integrative, contextualized reviews of faith. a few various topics are integrated in those sleek reports of religion.

By Alessandro Mariotti

By James R. White

Learn What Islam fairly Teaches, instantly From Its Sacred Text

Relying at the media and politicians to inform us what Muslims think is not going to chop it. Christians have to be greater knowledgeable, even if the aim is to appreciate worldwide politics or to speak to a Muslim neighbor around the highway.

Through reasonable and actual use of the Qur'an and different files, pupil and finished debater Dr. James White examines what Muslim sacred texts train approximately Christ, salvation, the Trinity, the afterlife, and different an important themes. This publication presents the solutions you have been trying to find to interact in open, sincere discussions approximately Islam with Muslims and others.

"An very good creation for Christians who are looking to be extra trained approximately Islam than what they could research from information reviews and the net. Dealing not just with ancient evidence but in addition deep theological and prophetic questions, the ebook is effective for all Christians who are looking to converse intelligently with their Muslim neighbors and neighbors."  --The Baptist Standard

By Tamar Zewi

This version of MS London BL OR7562 and different similar MSS, and the accompanying linguistic and philological learn, speak about a Samaritan edition of Saadya’s Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, its major features and position between different early Medieval Arabic Bible translations, viz., different models of Saadya’s translation of the Pentateuch, different Samaritan Arabic models of the Pentateuch, and Christian and Karaite Arabic Bible translations. The research analyses a number of the elements of this model, its transmission, its language, the level to which the Samaritans tailored this model of Saadya’s translation to their very own model of the Hebrew Pentateuch, and their attainable reasons in deciding on it for his or her personal use.

By Elizabeth Onyedinma Ezenweke

Bankruptcy ONE God, faith and guy: an outline ............................................................................................5 bankruptcy God in the Parameters of Divine Thanatology and Agnosticism ...........................................................................................17 bankruptcy 3 The Judeo-Christian God ...........................................................................................29 bankruptcy 4 God and Islam ...........................................................................................49 bankruptcy 5 God and the hot Age stream ...........................................................................................67 bankruptcy SIX God-Talk in Theistic views ..........................................................................................87 bankruptcy SEVEN God in African conventional faith .........................................................................................109 bankruptcy 8 Chi N'eye Ndu: God in an Igbo-African class .........................................................................................133 bankruptcy 9 God is God: A dating

By Stevan Davies

This old Gnostic textual content could be a spouse to your personal religious quest

The mystery ebook of John is the main major and influential textual content of the traditional Gnostic faith. a part of the library of books present in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, this principal delusion of Gnosticism tells the tale of ways God fell from excellent Oneness to imprisonment within the fabric global, and the way via realizing our divine nature and our divine origins—that we're one with God—we opposite God’s descent and locate our salvation.

The mystery e-book of John: The Gnostic Gospel—Annotated & Explained decodes the crucial subject matters, ancient beginning, and religious contexts of this demanding but basic Gnostic instructing. Drawing connections to Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, kabbalistic Judaism, and Sufism, Davies makes a speciality of the mythology and psychology of the Gnostic non secular quest. He illuminates the Gnostics’ ardent demand self-awareness and introspection, and the empowering message that divine wholeness can be restored now not via worshiping fake gods in an illusory fabric global yet through our acceptance of the inherent divinity inside ourselves.