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Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan
This book critically analyses the creation and effects of spirituality as both discourse and practice in Japan. It shows how the value of spirituality has been sustained by …
Urban Religious Events
How might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes? Through case studies drawn …
The Moral and Religious Thought of Yi Hwang (Toegye)
This book presents Yi Hwang (1501–1570)—better known by his pen name, Toegye—Korea’s most eminent Confucian philosopher. It is a pioneering study of Toegye’s moral and religious …
Decolonizing Interreligious Education
Decolonizing Interreligious Educationexplores multiple injustices, focusing on the lived experience, unaddressed grief, and acts of resistance and resilience of populations most …
Free Zone Scientology
In this novel academic study, Aled Thomas analyses modern issues surrounding boundaries and fluidity in contemporary Scientology. By using the Scientologist practice of ‘auditing’ …
Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion
This anthropological work thoroughly illustrates the novel synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in Greece. It challenges the single-faith approach that …
Religious Experience and the Creation of Scripture
This volume examines the reasons that prompted the New Testament writers to create the texts which would become the formation of the Christian religion, exploring the possibility …
The World of Girolamo Donzellini
Girolamo Donzellini was born in 1513. He was a religious dissenter, a physician, and a bibliophile involved in the Medical Republic of Letters. He was put to death by the Venetian …
A Study of the Social and Religious Significance of the Idols of the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram
This temple is a storehouse of art and architecture. The vimana is 85 feet high. The front mandapam itself is in the form of a huge chariot drawn by horses. The temple has some …
WJEC/Eduqas Religious Studies for A Level & AS Key Thinkers: Ethics
Welsh Language Edition. An essential companion to help students master one of the most important areas of their Religious Studies course in Ethics: knowing the key thinkers.- …
Religious Epistemology through Schillebeeckx and Tibetan Buddhism
This study investigates how a comparison between the Catholic theologian Edward Schillebeeckx's controversial reading of Thomist philosophy and the Tibetan Buddhist Gendun Chopel's …
Studying the Religious Mind
The cognitive science of religion does not have its own methodology, and yet from the very beginnings of the discipline, methodology has defined it not only in relation to the …