A guide to the world's many faiths. It gives readers a historically correct picture of the world's religious belief systems comparing East and West. It examines prehistoric cosmic religions, the river valley religions of Ancient Egypt, the Greek gods, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
This full-color photo essay documents the growth of the World Peace Ceremonies: Seven thousand Nyingma monks, lamas, and nuns are joined by 30,000 laypeople from India, Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and Nepal.
Wings For the Soul: Madonna Stories to Celebrate its 125th year is a thoughtful and inspiring book of editorials—a tribute to all the Jesuit editors of Madonna magazine. Chris is one of the best-read columnists in the last 20 years with much-requested articles of life through a christian approach and looking at that in the daily and seasonal ......
Singing occurs in nearly every setting of Amish life. It is a sanctioned pleasure that frames all Amish rituals and one that enlivens and sanctifies both routine and special events, from household chores, road trips by buggy, and family prayer to baptisms, youth group gatherings, weddings, and 'single girl' sings. But because Amish worship is ......
Ancient Lessons for the Emerging Global Civilization
From a leading expert on India's vast spiritual and cultural experience: how to balance two fundamental and complementary spiritual urges -- one to forsake ego and world in favour of the formless infinite, the other to integrate mystical experience with daily living.
More than two hundred years have passed since the Constitution was written, yet Americans still cannot make up their minds whether religion is primarily private, public, or a combination of the two.
This is one of those books that can change your life. Radical, thought-provoking, and indeed mind-boggling, it leads to a completely new way of looking at what it means to be human - a spiritual being in a universe that itself is not just physical, but psychic and spiritual as well. These three previously untranslated lectures are a masterly ......
Is there really a monolithic "black church"? Distilling the arguments of Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief work asks the central question: What really is African American religion? Sketching the religious landscape of African American communities today, Pinn makes explicit the tension in traditional ......