For the historian of religions, every manifestation of the sacred is important: every rite, every belief or divine ffigure reflects the experience of the sacred and hence implies the notions of bei…
The problems of morality are complicated by the competing perspectives that religion and philosophy sometimes bring to ethical discussions. Paul Diener provides a readable and coherent guide to the…
Slumbering secularists and insular religionists, seemingly unaware of the spiritual brooks and streams that have persistently watered their cultural landscape, are awakening to a different world. A…
Religious rivalries historidcally have been at the root of many human conflicts. In this book representatives of nine world religions offer insight on how their traditions may help to overcome the …
The concept of the sacred space although found in all religions, is expressed differntly in each. THis book deals with the function of buildings for worship, shrines, pilgrimage centres etc, and th…
if we think of religion as a kind of human activity about which something can be learned, and survey the scene from that point of view, a striking fact is the existence of a number of massive and e…