Featuring vibrant full color throughout, the seventh edition of Bart D. Ehrman's highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Distinctive to this study is its unique focus on the historical, literary, and religious milieux of the Greco-Roman world, including early Judaism.

As part of its historical orientation, the book also discusses other Christian ...

The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts - the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha.

With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of ...

In this classic work, the author introduced the then revolutionary idea that indigenous practices are indeed rational, when viewed in terms of religious beliefs.

Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, Third Edition is the ideal textbook for those coming to the study of religion for the first time, as well as for those who wish to keep up-to-date with the latest perspectives in the field. This third edition contains new and upgraded pedagogic features, including chapter summaries, key terms and definitions, and questions for reflection and discussion. The first part of the book considers the history and modern practices of the m...

A new and expanded edition of a highly successful textbook on world religions with a comparative approach which explores how six major religions are lived and expressed through their customs, rituals and everyday practices. A new edition of this major textbook, exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices by focusing on the 'lived experience' This comparative study is enriched and broadened with the inclusion of a sixth religion, DaoismTakes a th...

The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.

A record of the wonderful spiritual and physical manifestations of God’s power in healing souls and bodies, through the prayers of His servant, Christoph Blumhardt.

Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch in which humankind emerged as a geological superpower that shapes the future of life on Earth. This Age of Humans gives a new urgency to age-old questions. Who are we? What is a human being? What is our place in the cosmos? What is our responsibility for the Earth’s ecosystem? What stories do we have to tell about ourselves now that we have arrived in the Anthropocene? This book takes you on an exciting quest to find out what it means to be human in a ...

"Astral Worship" by J.H. Hill, M.D., is a book that explores the origins and history of astral worship, also known as star worship or astrology. The book examines the religious and cultural significance of celestial bodies such as stars, planets, and constellations, which were worshipped by ancient societies.

The author, J.H. Hill, was a medical doctor and an advocate for the scientific study of astrology. In the book, he argues that the practice of astral worship is not based on superstition...