Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Comparative Religion

This in-depth study explores the history and philosophy of India's major religions, explaining clearly the development of Buddhism, Yoga, and Hinduism over the centuries. A complete glossary of terms is included, as well as an index and suggestions for further reading.

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In this unique collection of critical essays, scholars of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Native American thought explore the tension between modernization and the family, sexuality, and marriage traditions of major religions in America. Contributors...

"Joanna Hubbs has found the trace of Baba Yaga and the rusalki and Moist Mother Earth and other fascinating feminine myths in Russian culture, and has added richly to the growing interest in popular culture." New York Times Book Review

..". brave... fascinating... immensely enjoyable... " Times Higher Education Supplement

..". a stimulating and original study... vivid and readable." Russian Review

"An immensely stimulating, beautifully written work of scholarship." Francine du Plessix Gray

"Joanna Hubbs has provided scholars... with a wealth of significant...

..". wonderfully imaginative and provocative in its interdisciplinary approach to the study of nineteenth-century American religion and women's role within it."--Choice

..". an important addition to the fields of religious studies, women's history, and American cultural history." --Journal of the American Academy of Religion

..". a complete and complex portrait of the Christian home." --The Journal of American History

"Bednarowski is especially good at elucidating the theological daring of these new American religions.... She] demonstrates in a very few pages how... theology and group adherence made the individual count, a configuration simultaneously American, un-American, and important." --Jon Butler

"The cultural confrontation with these new religions' is very real and usually very misinformed. Bednarowski has gone to great lengths to dispel the ignorance." --The Christian Century

"A groundbreaking study." --Syzygy: Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture

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In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation--and the conflict behind the creation--of sacred space in America. The essays in this volume visit places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, D.C., and they investigate visions of America as sacred space at home and abroad. Here are the beginnings of a new American religious history--told as the story of the contested spaces it has inhabited.

The contributors are David Chidester, Matthew...

"The editors have performed a great service in making widely available a documentary history of the interpretation of the Eve and Adam story." --Publishers Weekly

"This fascinating volume examines Genesis 1-3 and the different ways that Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpreters have used these passages to define and enforce gender roles.... a 'must'... " --Choice

"Wonderful A marvelous introduction to the ways in which the three major Western religious traditions are both like, and unlike one another." --Ellen Umansky, Fairfield University

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This reader explores current interest in spirituality in the United States. It traces the concept and presence of spirituality in the nation s past and explains the strong attraction to spiritual themes in the present, with attention to questions of definition, historical usage, and connection to religion. Twenty-seven selections pursue the difference and diversity among Americans in terms of their spiritual styles, here understood as modes of experiential knowledge. Catherine L. Albanese has organized these selections to reflect four approaches to spirituality: knowing through the body,...