The intersection of science and religion through the ages, in various cultures, and in the present are the topics of the essays of this 2-volume reference. Written by academics and other specialists w
Each world faith tradition has its own distinctive relationship with science, and the science-religion dialogue benefits from a greater awareness of what this relationship is. In this book, members o
North American scholars of religion offer theoretical perspectives on the coincidence of religion and violence in the world today and the implications of both in issues of politics and terrorism. They
Many authors have written on the effect that technology, economics, and politics have on globalization, but few have addressed the potential impact of world religions on the future direction of globa
The revelation is described in chapters three and six of the Book of Exodus, and the nature of the name Yahweh, connected with the phrase "I am that I am," is of central important to Jewish monotheism
The absence of strong spiritual and ethical dimensions in twentieth-century development helped to produce one of the most violent, environmentally impoverished, and economically unequal centuries in
This book examines the role religion plays in international relations as well as why this role has been ignored until now by international relations theorists. Fox and Sandler argue that while religio
Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. Ge
For many years, ecologists and the environmentalists who looked to ecology for authority depicted a dichotomy between a pristine, stable nature and disruptive human activity. Most contemporary ecologi
F.E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work after twenty-five years. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten hi
What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the U. S. dollar bill? Did a pharaoh inspire Moses to worship one God? Whats a Canaanite demoness doing at a rock concert? Since the beginning of time,
An in-depth look at the role of plant spirits in shamanic rituals from around the world . Shows how shamans heal using their knowledge of plant spirits as well as the plant's "medical properties" . Ex
It is crucial today to understand how religions can exist harmoniously in a shared environment, whether local or global. A reasoned approach to this question was sought by participants at a stimulatin
As traditional religions in the Western world are abandoned to the elderly and the fundamentalists, new forms of spiritual and religious practices are emerging that are entwined with the political, th
Offering a different perspective on the subject of religion and psychoanalysis, this book is useful for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic therapists and psychodynamic counsellors. It attempts to answer q
The great myths of the world create meaning out of the fundamental events of human existence: birth, death, conflict, loss, reconciliation, the cycle of the seasons. They speak to us of life itself in
In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism is a pr
It is tempting to regard the perpetrators of the September 11th terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln’s acclaimed Holy Terrors makes clear, were profoundly an
