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Parish, Helen L.

The field of 'art and religion' is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies. Uniquely, "The Art of the Sacred" explores the...

Athos, the Holy Mountain of Greece, is one of the most mysterious places in the world. A rugged pyramid that rises up from the Aegean Sea, this mo...

For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on through ideas as varied as the legendary Hangi...

Sufism is Islam's principal mystical tradition, providing its followers with the inner, esoteric or purely spiritual dimension of their faith. Thi...

Buddhism is often characterised as one of the most complex and enigmatic of all the world's religions. Although the Buddha himself was not a philo...

The Christian faith has the allegiance of one third of the human race. It has succeeded in influencing civilization to such a degree that we now ta...

The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it n...

Littlejohn, Ronnie L

»The way that can be told is not the eternal Way; the name that can be named is not the eternal Name.» So begins the first verse of the mysterious...

Did the universe start with a bang, or has it existed always? Was there a supernatural being behind it all, or just mindless forces? The beginnin...

Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil o...

Draz, M. A.

[Språk: Engelska] Häftad

This is an investigation of British Muslims' perceptions of themselves and the dilemmas they face. It also deals with the reality behind distorted...

Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled.\n\nOr of Jains sweeping the ground in f...

Leaman, Oliver

The High Middle Ages were remarkable for their coherent sense of 'Christendom': of people who belonged to a homogeneous Christian society marked by...

Much attention has been given in recent writings about religion to fundamentalism and the 'religious right'.But much less attention has been given ...

Music and religion have, throughout history, walked hand in hand. In the rites and rituals of small tribal religions, great world religions, and mo...

Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur

It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes. He also has as many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub (in Christia...

[Språk: Engelska]

One needs to be a lunatic to become a Christian, the 19th century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once observed.Had he lived in the 20th centu...

The Islamic State movement (ISIS/ISIL/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Sy...

Haleem, Muhammad Abdel

Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights.But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of nar...

Rose, Jenny