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The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future
University Press of America 2011; US$ 59.99In The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future, Theodore John Rivers explores the changing relationship between technology and religion. Rivers draws upon his expertise in the fields of medieval and religious history to discuss how the promotion of Christianity and monasticism in the Middle Ages began a process that has lent religious undertones... more...
World Religions in Practice
Wiley 2011; US$ 54.95World Religions in Practice introduces five of the world's great religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – and explores how they are lived and expressed in custom, ritual, and symbol. A major new textbook exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices – by focusing... more...
Romulus and Remus
Shell Education 2010; US$ 6.99According to the ancient myth, Romulus and Remus are twin brothers and the founders of Rome and the Roman Empire. A woodpecker and a she-wolf raised the boys until they were adopted by more suitable parentshumans. Join them on their wild adventure to find where they came from and get to know the land they discovered along the way. more...
Pagan Theology
NYU Press 2003; US$ 70.00In Pagan Theology , Michael York situates Paganism—one of the fastest-growing spiritual orientations in the West—as a world religion. He provides an introduction to, and expansion of, the concept of Paganism and provides an overview of Paganism's theological perspective and practice. He demonstrates it to be a viable and distinguishable... more...
Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches
NYU Press 2009; US$ 48.00Covering an expanse of more than three thousand years, Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches charts, in one concise volume, the history of Greeces religious cultures from antiquity all the way through to present, post-independence Greece. Focusing on the encounter and interaction between Hellenism and (Orthodox) Christianity, which is the most... more...
The Handy Religion Answer Book
Visible Ink Press 2012; US$ 18.99Providing detailed descriptions of the beliefs, rituals, history, and organization of the world?s eight major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto, this fully revised and updated edition is an easy-to-use comparative guide for anyone seeking basic religious literacy. Clearly... more...
Children and Childhood in World Religions
Rutgers University Press 2009; US$ 32.95Through both the scholarly introductions and the primary sources, this comprehensive volume addresses a range of topics, from the sanctity of birth to a child?s relationship to evil, showing that issues regarding children are central to understanding world religions and raising significant questions about our own conceptions of children today. more...
Wilderness in Mythology and Religion
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00Wilderness mythology is one of the most abiding creations in the history of religions, and yet it has not previously been subject to scrutiny or theorizing from a cross-cultural, ?study-of-religions perspective?. This book addresses the need for cross-cultural anthropological and history of religions analyses by offering in-depth case studies of the... more...
Transformationen des Phaethon-Mythos in der deutschen Literatur
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00The fall of Phaethon, son of the sun god Helios, has been taken up in art and literature as a warning against hubris. The present study analyzes the myth of Phaethon in German literature and its European contexts. Intertextual relations from antiquity to the present are unfolded, including works by Euripides, Ovid, Wickram, Gryphius, Schiller, Goethe,... more...
After Pluralism
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 29.99The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem that only pluralism can solve. Working comparatively... more...









