Text: English (translation)Original Language: German

Hardcover with dust jacket. Front of dust jacket damp-warped. Else sound. 308 pages.

Michael Wolfe's "exemplary" (Library Journal) collection of historical writings on the Hajj, now updated with a new introduction by Reza Aslan. Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage to Mecca, or the Hajj, has been the central theme...

For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation. Yet English...

Explores the ways that Hispanic/Latino theology can overcome its fractious nature to heighten its relevance to society and politics.

U.S. Latinx theology is a formidable tradition of varied discourses, reflecting the richly textured reality of Latinx life in the United States. The writings of the third generation of U.S. Latinx religious scholarship provide a window on some of the new...

In a world divided by race, ethnicity, gender, violence, and hate, Harold Recinos's Good News from the Barrio explores the ways in which the good news of the gospel is at work in Latino barrios. He challenges Christians to listen to the gospel in these...

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'Ethics' was not developed as a separate branch of philosophy in Buddhist traditions until the modern period, though Buddhist philosophers have always been concerned with the moral significance of thoughts, emotions, intentions, actions, virtues, and...

Over four decades ago, the pre-eminent Jewish theologian, Abraham Joshua Heschel, warned of a "second Holocaust" - a spiritual genocide against Judaism that American Jews were perpetrating on themselves. By engaging in assimilation and secularization, he...

Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice offers a rigorously critical, and yet inspiring, vision of justice as an integral part of Christian spirituality in our complex, globalized world. At the same time, Daniel Groody’s analysis draws on the conviction...

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Indian Christian thinkers have responded both negatively and positively to the diverse schools of Indian philosophy. This book aims to make the negative one fade away.

Brazil is a rapidly emerging country. Brazilian theology, namely the Theology of Liberation, has become well known in the 1970s and 1980s. The politically active Base Ecclesial Communities and the progressive posture of the Roman Catholic Church...

Changes in Latin America have created a new political game with new rules, argue the authors, and the Catholic Church - the voice of the voiceless in the 1980s - will find itself increasingly constrained in its political activity in the 1990s. The church...

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The scenario that confronts us in the biblical text of 1 and 2 Kings is a turbulent one. Daniel Berrigan minces no words in his assessment of that biblical era. Prophets, kings, and the gods they worship -- all are found wanting.Berrigan examines the...

Study of tension within Christian groups and between the Church and South Africa at large. A very good softcover copy. Light shelf wear. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. NOT ex-library. Indexed. 276pgs. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category:...

What does religion have to do with fomenting or transcending violence? In this fascinating work, Kirk-Duggan documents and analyzes religion's involvement in violence, for good and ill, in the Bible, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the youth...