The Brill dictionary of religion

Edition of Metzler Lexikon Religion

The new and impressively comprehensive Brill Dictionary of Religion addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse. Richly illustrated and with more than 500 entries, the dictionary is a multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment. It ...

Thinking about religion

an historical introduction to theories of Religion

Is the Bible unique and flawless divine revelation? Or is it an historical human document subject to criticism? Is religious experience a link to the divine? Or is it a product of social pressure or psychological malformation? This book tells the story of how and ...

Eight theories of religion

"Eight Theories of Religion" offers summary, analysis, and appraisal of a number of landmark modern efforts to explain the origin and function of religion. Beginning in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, it considers the Victorian anthropology of E.B. Tylor and James Frazer ...

Les représentations littéraires de la Sainteté

du Moyen Âge à nos jours

A l'aube de la littérature française, les litterae, les lettres, sont indissociables du sacré. Les coûteux parchemins reflètent la gloire des saints. La littérature est hagiographie et l'hagiographie est littérature. L'écriture ose le sublime, le divin, l'ineffable ; elle ouvre à la ...

Jesús y Yahvé

los nombres divinos

Harold Bloom ha escrito acerca de la religión y la Biblia a lo largo de toda su carrera, pero ahora, con Jesús y Yahvé, ha logrado su libro más explosivo e importante. Teniendo en cuenta que existen muy pocos testimonios del Jesús histórico, Bloom ha ...

Dios contra los dioses

historia de la guerra entre monoteísmo y politeísmo

Especialista en temas bíblicos, Jonathan Kirsch aborda un tema de rabiosa actualidad, el de la guerra de religiones. El autor defiende la tesis de que el terrorismo religioso no es exclusivo de una sola fe, pese a lo que algunos creen hoy en día, ni ...

Nom de Dieu

par-delà les trois monotheismes

La Question de Dieu se présente aujourd'hui de façon plus neuve, comme si la tendance était de reprendre possession de problèmes essentiels que la religion a confisqués pour les gérer à sa façon. " Dieu " serait donc une Question trop sérieuse - ou trop drôle - pour ...

Levinas and the theology

Emmanuel Levinas was a significant contributor to the field of philosophy, phenomenology and religion. A key interpreter of Husserl, he stressed the importance of attitudes to other people in any philosophical system. For Levinas, to be a subject is to take responsibility for others as ...

La ciencia secreta

ritos y tradiciones de Oriente

Cuando el ser humano levantó su mirada al firmamento y empezó a formularse preguntas, dio nacimiento a un estado superior de conciencia. Las noches estrelladas se convirtieron en lo insondable, lo desconocido y lo misterioso. Tormentas y relámpagos sobrepasaban y misterioso. Tormentas y relámpagos sobrepasaben ...

"God wants it!"

the ideology of martyrdom in the Hebrew Crusade chronicles and its jewish and christian background

The hanged man

a story of miracle, memory, and colonialism in the middle ages

Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine ...

Worldmark encyclopedia of religious practices

In 1,800 pages across 3 volumes, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices provides information on current religious practices around the world with an emphasis on how religions impact the daily lives of their followers. Volume 1, Religions of the World, contains 20-to-25-page entries on 13 ...

La búsqueda espiritual

la trascendencia en el mito, la religión y la ciencia

Este importante libro para la historia de las religiones, según Wendy Doniger, es un estudio interdisciplinar de la búsqueda (quest) como actividad propia del ser humano caracterizado como animal quaerens, esto es, como animal que pregunta, a partir de la identificación entre «buscar» y «preguntar ...

Thinking about religion

a reader

This concise reader creates a useful mix of classic and contemporary responses to issues in the study of religion, ideal for those coming to the subject for the first time. Pairing pivotal theorists and theories of religion alongside cutting-edge criticism from both their contemporaries and ...

Diccionario abreviado Oxford de las religiones del mundo

Este diccionario de religión, compendio del elogiado Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, destaca por su carácter exhaustivo y actualizado. Confeccionado por un equipo de especialistas, el volumen contiene más de 8.200 entradas, un extenso índice temático que las agrupa y un completo estudio introductorio ...

Encyclopaedia judaica

The landmark Encyclopaedia Judaica, lauded as the standard work on Judaism since first appearing in the early 1970s, has been extensively revised and expanded for this long-awaited new edition. Nothing compromised, included are more than 22,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and ...

Theories of religion

a reader

The aim of this new book is to provide the student with an anthology of key texts on the broad range of social scientific theories of religion. The texts included come from a wide range of approaches to religion - unified both by the questions that ...

The Oxford Handbook of global religions

This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. It is organized into six sections corresponding to the major living religious traditions: the Indic cultural region ...

Diferencias de religión

el verdadero obstáculo para la paz

Pocas personas ponen ya en duda el hecho de que la búsqueda de la paz en la actual sociedad mundial tiene como principal prerrequisito estructural la consecución de la integración o unión de las distintas tradiciones espirituales del planeta; una unión que sin embargo, se ...

The A to Z of new religious movements

The A to Z of New Religious Movements is a major contribution to understanding new and formative religions - leaving evaluation to the reader - providing brief descriptions of more than 100 religions with information on the founders and leaders and their roots in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism ...