Comparative Religion
mobi |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Jones, David Albert [Jones, David Albert]

Angels at the beginning of life When the three angels visit Abraham, they inform him that, by the time they return next year, Sarah will have given birth to a ...
( Category: General January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Raschke, Carl A.

COUNTERFEIT MONEY Derrida has also raised the question of the same aporia in reference to the religious, a question he derives from Levinas’s paradoxical formulation of the “infinite” responsibility a ...
( Category: Deconstruction December 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-25 | Author:Steve Cioccolanti

QUESTION & ANSWER Is there a God in Buddhism? Buddha never denied the existence of God. His teachings are deeply rooted in the assumption that there is absolute morality and ...
( Category: Comparative Religion November 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-15 | Author:Mark A. Gabriel

CONCLUSION If you were able to meet a suicide bomber on his way to blow up himself or herself, you might say, "You are going to kill yourself and many ...
( Category: Comparative Religion November 18,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-24 | Author:Norenzayan, Ara [Norenzayan, Ara]

The anthropological record tells us that in moving from the smallest scale human societies to largest and most complex human societies, the following patterns emerge: • Big Gods go from ...
( Category: Sociology October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Battin, Margaret Pabst

Source [#45] Kwakiutl: Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1934, pp. 215–219. TALKOTIN [#46] Barbarities Practised on Widows (Ross Cox, citing Duncan M’Gillivray, 1794–95) The ...
( Category: Suicide September 8,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley [Shelley, Percy Bysshe]

What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered, and our infancy ...
( Category: Comparative Religion July 31,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-14 | Author:Ray Comfort

Witnessing to a Roman Catholic You: Hello. Nice day. Paul: Yes, it is. You: My name is [your name here]. Paul: I’m Paul. You: Pleased to meet you, Paul. Paul: ...
( Category: Comparative Religion July 28,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Urban, Hugh

His concern is for the rest of he world, which he characterizes as humanity sunk in its ignorance. . . . Considering the far reaching crises of contemporary times, he ...
( Category: General July 20,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:James R. White

Plainly these texts are anything but mubinun (clear, perspicuous), which has led to the varying interpretations in the tafsir literature. Surah 2:75 does not say the Jews destroyed and replaced ...
( Category: Comparative Religion June 19,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-28 | Author:Daniel Shayesteh

If a man before marrying the daughters of his paternal or maternal aunt commits adultery with their mothers, he cannot marry them anymore (subject 2394). If after marriage he has ...
( Category: Comparative Religion June 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Bloom, Harold [Bloom, Harold]

The you and we are Mrs. Stetson’s own italics, helping acutely to emphasize the authentic accent of the enthusiast. Alas, Mrs. Stet-son was not saved from the inevitable rejection endured ...
( Category: United States June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Bruce Feiler

ON A GRAY approach from Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty doesn’t quite stir the soul as the postcard images would suggest. Her mint color seems more chilly than star-spangled. She ...
( Category: General June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Waugh, Alexander

140 God’s extraordinary love of the ark. – Even though the Ark of the Covenant was only 115cm × 69cm × 69cm in size (Exod. 25:10–11) – a tiny box-like ...
( Category: Comparative Religion June 13,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1993-01-31 | Author:Joseph Campbell

The body is the Bodhi-tree, The mind, a mirror bright, Take care to wipe them always clean, Lest dust on them alight. The idea here being that the essence of ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 11,2015 )