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A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life
1997 || Paperback || Santideva e.a. || Shambhala Publications Inc
Analects
With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
2003 || Paperback || Confucius || Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entree into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland's exquisite rendering of the work are his translations of a selection of classic Chinese commentaries that shed light on difficult passages, provide historical and cultural context, and invite the reader to ponder a range of interpretations. The ideal student ...
Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism
2005 || Paperback || Donald S. Lopez Jr. || The University of Chicago Press
Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and sometimes polemical positions in an effort both to demonstrate the shortcomings of assumptions about the religion and the potential.
Introducing the New Testament / 2nd Edition
A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey
2018 || Hardcover || Mark Allan Powell || Baker Publishing Group
This lively, engaging introduction to the New Testament is critical yet faith-friendly, lavishly illustrated, and accompanied by a variety of pedagogical aids, including sidebars, maps, tables, charts, diagrams, and suggestions for further reading. The full-color interior features art from around the world that illustrates the New Testament's impact on history and culture. The first edition has been well received (over 60,000 copies sold).
This new edition has been thoroughly revised in respo...
Imagining Religion
From Babylon to Jonestown
1988 || Paperback || Jonathan Z. Smith || The University of Chicago Press
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 ...
New Age Religion and Western Culture
Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
1997 || Paperback || Wouter J. Hanegraaff || State Univ of New York Pr
Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the histori...
Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed
A Guide for the Perplexed
2013 || Paperback || Professor Wouter J. Hanegraaff || Bloomsbury Publishing
A practical and accessible guide and introduction to the field of Western Esotericism
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling
2006 || Paperback || Soren Kierkegaard || Cambridge University Press
In this rich and resonant work, Kierkegaard reflects on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. This volume, first published in 2006, presents the first new English translation for twenty years, by Sylvia Walsh, together with an introduction by C. Stephen Evans.
A Secular Age
2018 || Paperback || Charles Taylor || Harvard University Press
What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest b...
The Foundations of Buddhism
1998 || Paperback || Rupert Gethin || Oxford University Press
Concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism. From the narrative of the story of the Buddha, through discussions of aspects such as textual traditions, the framework of the Four Noble Truths, this work provides an introduction to Buddhism.