Gmainer-Pranzl Franz Gmainer-Pranzl & Rettenbacher Sigrid Rettenbacher 
Religion in postsaekularer Gesellschaft [PDF ebook] 
Interdisziplinaere Perspektiven

These essays emerge from different crucial and complex conflicts: from the memory of a bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, urging the pope of his time to cleanse the church of complicity with violence, o …

This book offers a contemporary Christian explication of the word ”soul” that uses Wittgenstein and his interpreters to suggest that human intelligence and desire cannot be ”mapped into the world’ …

This book examines the history of reincarnation in Japan and shows how the idea has developed over time. It looks at exactly what reincarnation is and where it originated. The book also examines rein …

In this handy volume, two professors of religious studies provide the student of religious studies – whether the motivated undergraduate, graduate student, or professor – with a brief review of theor …

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Teachers, more than any other professional group, understand the struggles that students face daily to learn, both children and adults. Teachers, experts of their own disciplines, must also daily wor …

Christians claim the Bible is the Word of God, that it is the final authority in all matters relating to Christian faith and practice, and that it is absolutely reliable in all that it teaches. But t …

Bahá’í Faith: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to a fascinating, independent world religion. Examining its historical development, current “community-building” efforts and t …

There could hardly be a more topical book than this for the committed Christian. War and the Gospel does not pose a new problem. The problem is as old as the Christian faith, but it has assumed a gre …

Hinduism: The Basics introduces readers to the third largest, and arguably the oldest, living religious tradition. It opens a vista into the rich and dynamic ethos of the Hindu religious tradition in …