Comparative Religion

In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote....

Buddha or Karl Marx is a comparative study of the two philosophies Buddhism and Marxism.

Who is Allah? What does he ask of those who submit to his teachings? Pulitzer Prize-winner Jack Miles gives us a deeply probing, revelatory portrait of the world’s second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion....

Acclaimed author Bart Ehrman contextualizes early Christian narratives of heaven and hell within the broader intellectual and cultural worlds from which they emerged....

This is a must listen for anyone interested in religon and man's search for the spritual. It is written for laymen, thus easy to understand, but remains penetrating and brilliant....

Homicide detective J. Warner Wallace applies ten common rules of evidence to make the case for Christianity in this completely updated and expanded edition of the apologetic classic that has changed lives around the world....

Marking a groundbreaking synthesis, Alan Watts asserts that the insights of Freud and Jung, which had, indeed, brought psychiatry close to the edge of liberation, could, if melded with the hitherto secret wisdom of the Eastern traditions, free people from their battles with the self....

Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance"....

America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay listeners to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text....

Subramanian, a real-life Hindu of the 20th century, observes a fictitious conversation between two religious figures as they respond to each other's views of the life and the afterlife....

A conversation between Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ....

Have you ever wondered what Jesus would say to Mohammed? Or Buddha? Or Oscar Wilde....

In this comprehensive text, Douglas Groothuis makes a clear and rigorous case for Christian theism....

A publishing phenomenon in Spain: a moving, lyrical, far-ranging meditation on the deep joys of confronting oneself through silence by a Spanish priest and Zen disciple....

The story of Islam in this brief survey, beginning with Muhammad's early life and rise to power, then tracing the origins and development of the Qur'an juxtaposed with biblical literature, and concluding with an overview of modern and fundamentalist narratives of the origin of Islam....

How did organized religions with "Big Gods" - the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths - spread to colonize most minds in the world....

This book explores six of the lifetimes in which the incarnations of Jesus and Buddha lived together, beginning in 700 BC when they were known as Saka and Hiroji....

Trial lawyer Mark Lanier presents the claims made by the world's great religions, discusses their histories, and cross-examines their witnesses (their scriptures and traditions) to determine whether their claims are worthy of belief....

Braden describes the "Isaiah Effect" as a power that can heal our bodies, bring about lasting peace....

Angeles Arrien was an anthropologist and teacher whose work combined cultural anthropology, psychology, and comparative religion....

Understanding Islam's sacred text is integral to understanding your Muslim neighbor....

On November 22, 1963, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy, and Aldous Huxley. All three believed, in different ways, that death is not the end of human life. Suppose they were right, and suppose they met after death....

Karen Armstrong guides us through a bewildering landscape, over many centuries and civilizations, to show how our concept of God has evolved with the passage of time....

The chants and music in this audiobook are some of the first petals to open on this beautiful flower. Chanted by the resident community of Plum Village in 2002....

The Tibetan Buddhist tradition carries carries exotic tales about fearless female "sky dancers" or "wisdom dakinis" who dance in limitless space and act as messengers, guides, and protectors....