50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Komparativ religionsvetenskap

The World’s Religions, by beloved author and pioneering professor Huston Smith (Tales of Wonder), is the definitive classic for introducing the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as regional native traditions. This revised and updated edition provides sympathetic descriptions of the various traditions, explaining how they work “from the inside,” which is a big reason w...

Releasedatum: 2009-03-17 69,00 kr

This definitive work covers every aspect of the history, beliefs, and practices of Mormonism. Answers the crucial questions: How Did Mormonism Begin? Are Mormon Revelations from God? How Powerful Is the Mormon Church Today? Is Mormonism a Christian Religion? What Is the Mormon View of Christianity? What Is the Mormon View of Jesus Christ? What Does the Mormon Church Teach Concerning Salvation? What Does the Mormon Church Believe About the Afterlife? Were Early Mormon Leaders Practitioners of the...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-16 35,00 kr

From blood transfusions to salvation by works, John Ankerberg and John Weldon expose the unorthodox doctrines that put Jehovah’s Witnesses at risk physically and spiritually. With its easy–to–follow, question–and–answer format, this book allows readers to quickly discover: Who founded Jehovah’s Witnesses and why; why medical care essential to life is refused; why few Jehovah’s Witnesses look forward to eternal life in God’s presence; how many Jehovah’s Witnesses prophecies have...

Releasedatum: 2012-01-10 35,00 kr

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is an integral part of the world's spiritual heritage. It is an artistic rendering of the mysteries of life and death. The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE. The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated rw nw prt m hrw, is translated as Book of Coming Forth by Day or Book of Emerging Forth into the Light. "Book" is the closest...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-28 9,00 kr

'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the Bible In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. The Quran, the Torah and the Bible are often employed selectively to underwrite arbitrary and subjective views. They are believed to be divinely ordained; they are claimed to contain eternal truths. But a...

Releasedatum: 2019-06-06 129,00 kr

God of Love is Mirabai Starr’s passionate and personal exploration of the interconnected wisdom of the three Abrahamic faiths. She shares an overview of essential teachings, stories of saints and spiritual masters, prophetic calls for peace and justice, and for the first time in print, deeply engaging narratives from her own spiritual experiences. She guides readers to recognize the teachings and practices that unify rather then divide the three religions, and sheds light on the interspiritual...

Releasedatum: 2013-02-05 89,00 kr

In his new book, bestselling author Sam Keen challenges the notions and habits we’ve formed about religion over the centuries in order for us to build a deeper faith, that is relevant today.   He asks: * How has religion failed us?. * Must we choose between dogmatic religion and atheism? * How might religion unite rather than divide us?   The answers, Keen discovers, point the way back to the primal emotions, to the life-giving sense of dwelling in the presence of the sacred.. &...

Releasedatum: 2010-03-09 105,00 kr

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER 'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature—and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life. Since the beginning of time, humankind has looked upon nature and seen the divine. In the writings of the great thinkers across religions, the natural world inspires everything from fear to awe to tranquil contemplation; God, or however one defined the sublime, was present in everything. Yet today, even as we admire a t...

Releasedatum: 2022-09-06 149,00 kr

The famous work of folk magic attributed to the Hebrew prophet Moses

Releasedatum: 2021-06-07 5,00 kr

In the twelfth century, the Chinese Zen master Kakuan Shien produced the pictures, poems, and commentaries we know as the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures. They trace a universally recognizable path of contemplative spirituality, using the metaphor of a young ox-herder looking for his lost ox. According to Addison Hodges Hart, the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures and the teachings of Christ, the Good Shepherd who guides us to God, share a common vision. Both show us that authentic spiritual life must begin with a...

Releasedatum: 2013-10-10 125,00 kr

"Las Fiestas del Señor y su significado profético" te ayudará a entender lo que el pueblo judío celebra en las ocho fiestas más importantes incluidas en el calendario hebreo. Te muestra cómo estos eventos se relacionan directamente con las profecías prefiguradas tanto en el Antiguo como en el Nuevo Testamento. Es más que una mera coincidencia que estas profecías se cumplan en orden cronológico, coincidiendo con las fiestas que predicen su ocurrencia. Este manual de 190 páginas con let...

Releasedatum: 2020-06-03 Genre:Religion och andlighet 39,00 kr

This book is based on three lectures delivered by Dr. Mohammad Ali Shomali on 8th to 10th July 2016 at Sophia Institute University in Loppiano, Italy in the first round of Wings of Unity project. In this book, the author discusses significance of unity of God in different aspects of islamic thought and then goes on exploring God's plan in His creation and legislation for establishing unity among mankind. The book ends with reflections about end of the time and coming of Imam Mahdi and Jesus and ...

Releasedatum: 2018-01-01 19,00 kr

What are the differences between the practices of Mormonism and the Bible? Is the Jesus of the Mormon Church the Jesus of the Bible? In Mormonism Jesus is a man who became one of many gods. Biblical Christianity teaches Jesus was always God, and that there is only one God. Why is it most Mormons do not talk about these and other controversial differences? Further, Mormon teachings consider the Book of Mormon as equal to the Bible and accept several other books as inspired writings. What is the h...

Releasedatum: 2019-03-18 29,00 kr

Woven from Joseph Campbell’s previously unpublished work, this volume explores Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors — and their misinterpretations — with the famed mythologist’s characteristic conversational warmth and accessible scholarship. Campbell’s insights highlight centuries of confusion between literal and metaphorical interpretations of Western religious symbols that are, he argues, perennially relevant keys to spiritual understanding and mystical revelation Reviews: “[A] r...

Releasedatum: 2017-07-28 75,00 kr

Is religion inherently predisposed to violence? Or has religion been taken hostage by a politics of aggression? The years since the end of the Cold War have shown a noticeable shift in patterns of religious extremism, accentuating the uncomfortable, complex, and oft-misunderstood relationship between religion and violence. The essays in this succinct new volume examine that relationship by offering a well-rounded look at violence as it appears in the world's most prominent religious traditions, ...

Releasedatum: 2016-11-16 269,00 kr

Translating Religion advances thinking about translation as a critical category in religious studies, combining theoretical reflection about processes of translation in religion with focused case studies that are international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious. By operating with broad conceptions of both religion and translation, this volume makes clear that processes of translation, broadly construed, are everywhere in both religious life and the study of religion; at the same time, the th...

Releasedatum: 2015-06-26 419,00 kr

Frequently misunderstood or polemicized, natural theology is an under-studied yet persistent and pervasive presence throughout the history of thought about ultimate reality - from the classical Greek theology of the philosophers to twenty-first-century debates in science and religion.

Releasedatum: 2013-01-17 Genre:Religion och andlighet 389,00 kr

Former Mormons Michael and Lynn Wilder share the 7 reasons that led them from over 30 years of devout Mormon involvement to biblical Christianity. From Michael's leadership to determine if a person was "Temple worthy" to Lynn's role as tenured professor at Mormon-owned BYU, you'll discover the beliefs that changed their heart and mind as they examined the Bible's words for themselves.

Releasedatum: 2012-09-10 95,00 kr

All the World an Icon is the fourth book in an informal "quartet" of works by Tom Cheetham on the spirituality of Henry Corbin, a major twentieth-century scholar of Sufism and colleague of C. G. Jung, whose influence on contemporary religion and the humanities is beginning to become clear. Cheetham's books have helped spark a renewed interest in the work of this important, creative religious thinker. Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was professor of Islamic religion at the Sorbonne in Paris and director...

Releasedatum: 2012-07-03 139,00 kr

‌No country, no culture, no person today is untouched by what happens in the rest of the world.  Technological innovation, environmental degradation, economic gain & loss, nuclear weapons, instant communication have all created unprecedented familiarity among the world’s many cultures. With this historic development, the Dalai Lama understands that the essential task of humanity in the 21st Century is to cultivate peaceful coexistence.    Many believe in the inevitability ...

Releasedatum: 2010-05-11 109,00 kr

The new millennium dawned quietly, defying modern-day prophets of apocalypse. Yet for countless believers around the globe ­- Christians, Jews and Muslims -- anticipation that the world is about to end burns more intensely than ever. God's kingdom is near, they believe, and the key to salvation is Jerusalem's Temple Mount, -- the most sacred and contested real estate on earth. In The End of Days, leading Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg portrays how such faith has fueled the real-world stru...

Releasedatum: 2001-02-21 Genre:Religion och andlighet 209,00 kr

A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources! In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind. Authentic, poetic translations of key texts are coupled with insightful introductions and "grace notes."

Releasedatum: 2011-10-11 115,00 kr

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, leading religion and Middle East expert Charles Kimball shows how all religious traditions are susceptible to these basic corruptions and why only authentic faith can prevent such evil. The Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion 1. Absolute Truth Claims 2. Blind Obedience 3. Establishing the "Ideal" Time 4. The End Justifies Any Means 5. Declaring Holy War

Releasedatum: 2009-10-13 105,00 kr

In this timely, provocative, and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible searches for the man at the heart of the world’s three monotheistic religions—and today’s deadliest conflicts. At a moment when the world is asking “can the religions get along?” one figure stands out as the shared ancestor of Jews, Muslims, and Christians. One man holds the key to our deepest fears—and our possible reconciliation. Abraham is that man. Bruce Feiler set out on a personal qu...

Releasedatum: 2009-10-13 Genre:Religion och andlighet 89,00 kr