Religion : Comparative Religion

Asceticism, giving up sensual pleasures for a spiritual goal, is practised in many religions. This book focuses on Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, and argues that asceticism must be understood within its tradition. The book provides a new paradigm for comparative religion which will influence the development of the entire field. more...

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This provocative book traces the social and intellectual forces that led to the development of Christian anti-Judaism and shows how and why Augustine challenged this toxic tradition. In Augustine and the Jews , Paula Fredriksen draws us into the life, times, and thought of Augustine of Hippo (396–430). more...

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The United States is the most religiously diverse. nation in the world and the most religiously diverse. collection of people in history. And even in this age of. increasing religious violence, there is a growing movement. of cooperation: thousands of devout worshippers. who are willing to take a gamble on people of radically. different faiths. In this insightful, deeply felt examination of the. nature of community and religion, former New York. Times religion reporter Gustav Niebuhr traces the. roots of religious freedom in America and the setbacks. and triumphs it has encountered along the way. From. Hindus and Quakers in Queens to Catholics and. Jews in Baltimore, to black Baptists and Catholics in. Louisville, to Catholics and Buddhists in Los Angeles,. Niebuhr focuses on the ways people build ties between. groups. He looks at why this movement is a particularly. American endeavor and how it can save us all. Beyond Tolerance is a handbook for religious cooperation. in our fractured times. more...

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This book is concerned with the argument that religious traditions are inherently environmentally friendly. Yet in a developing country such as India, the majority of people cannot afford to put the 'Earth first' regardless of the extent to which this idea can be supported by their religious traditions. Does this mean that the linking of religion and environmental concerns is a strategy more suited to contexts where people have a level of material security that enables them to think and act like environmentalists?This question is approached through a series of case studies from Britain and India. The book concludes that there is a tension between the 'romantic' ecological discourse common among many Western activists and a more pragmatic approach, which is often found in India. The adoption of environmental causes by the Hindu Right in India makes it difficult to distinguish genuine concern for the environment from the broader politics surrounding the idea of a Hindu rashtra (nation). This raises a further level of analysis, which has not been provided in other studies. more...

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Blood contains extraordinary symbolic power in both Judaism and Christianity - as the blood of sacrifice, of Jesus, of the Jewish martyrs, of menstruation, and more. This work traces changing, and often clashing roles of blood as both symbol and substance through the Jewish and Christian history since Biblical times. more...

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