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Vietnamese Supernaturalismby Thien Do
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 188.00The beliefs and practices surrounding the meanings and symbols of the spirit world in Vietnam are explored in detail in this innovative study on popular religion in the country. more...
Varieties of Javanese Religionby Andrew Beatty; Meyer Fortes; Edmund Leach; Jack Goody; Stanley Tambiah
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 38.00This is the most comprehensive book on Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's famous study of 1960. Written in a vivid, jargon-free style, it should appeal to students of anthropology, comparative religion, and Islam, and to anyone interested in understanding how an exotic religion is practised. more...
Radical Interpretation in Religionby Nancy K. Frankenberry
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious belief and language from a variety of perspectives including anthropology of religion, ritual studies, cognitive psychology, semantics, post-analytic philosophy, history of religions, and philosophy of religion. more...
Handbook of Chinese Mythologyby Lihui Yang
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 75.00An informative work of historical and contemporary Chinese myths, including a collection of historical documents, detailing myths as they live and change in China today. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people, but ranges across the full ethnic spectrum of ancient and modern China. more...
Small Sacrificesby Anne Schiller
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 45.00This ethnographic study shows how the Ngaju Dyaks, rain forest dwellers of Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) are responding to modernity. It depicts how they are attempting to fashion a modern identity for themselves, especially by remodelling their indigenous religion. more...
Faces in the Cloudsby Stewart Elliott Guthrie
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 25.95This study contends that religion can best be understood as systematic anthropomorphism. The author offers an array of examples to show how this strategy pervades secular life and how it characterizes religious experience. more...
The Sense of Creationby Patrick Masterson
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 89.95What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions? Anselm and Aquinas developed a philosophical understanding of 'Creation' as an asymmetrical relationship between the world and God i.e. that the world is really related to God in a relationship of total dependence but God is in no way really related to or modified by this created world. This idea of an asymmetrical relationship is the key concept unifying all aspects of this book which discusses the three main inter-related questions in a philosophical discussion about God -- the question of meaning, the question of existence, and the question of co-existence.The book explores various... more...
Rationalizing Religionby Tong Chee Kiong
BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00Disputing the secularization hypothesis, this book examines the relationship between religion and modernity, detailing and explaining religious conversion, revivalism, and religious competition in Singapore. It also analyzes the nature of religious change in a society with a complex ethnic and religious composition. more...
How We See God and Why It Mattersby Robert J. Landy
Charles C Thomas 2001; US$ 49.95This is a book about seeing the ultimate mystery as represented by the figure of God. It is not about religion per se, although it makes reference to many of the great religious traditions of the world and their gods. Rather, it is about the presence of the spiritual world and its inhabitants. The authors aim is to attempt to answer the question, How do we see God? through engaging with the images created by a group of children from a number of different cultures and spiritual backgrounds. Through a two-year period, the author travelled the world interviewing more than 500 children, asking them to draw a picture of God, to act and speak as God, and to tell a story about God. This text is a documentation of that journey into the lives... more...
Paths to Transcendenceby Reza Shah-Kazemi
World Wisdom 2006; US$ 9.99This groundbreaking book is the first to compare and illuminate the doctrine of the Transcendent Absolute, and its implications both conceptually and experientially, in the spiritual perspectives of three towering figures in the history of world religions. Shankara, Ibn ?Arabi, and Meister Eckhart represent the metaphysical and mystical summits of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. By focusing on the theme of transcendence, often neglected in studies of religion and comparative mysticism, this work takes the reader to the heart of Religion as such, ultimately illuminating the unity of spiritual vision and experience which underlies all religious forms. In our day when there is much strife between several religious factions, the teachings of... more...









