Joanna Cook 
Meditation in Modern Buddhism [PDF ebook] 
Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life

Grace Jantzen was an internationally-renowned feminist philosopher of religion whose work has transformed the way we think about the interactions between religion, culture and gender in Western cultu …

Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years …

First published in 1925, this book is a pioneer attempt to deal with conversion from the comparative as well as the psychological point of view. The work falls into two main parts. Part one is a stud …

This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that reg …

This collection of studies in theology is written from the perspective of one from within the Christian faith, and seeking greater understanding of the doctrinal deposit of that faith. As a leading s …

David Wyn Williams presents a literary reimagining of the Suffering Servant of Second Isaiah through the lens of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, offering insight into how the servant”s prophetic charac …

Rational Choice Theory and Religion considers one of the major developments in the social scientific paradigms that promises to foster a greater theoretical unity among the disciplines of sociology, …

In all cultures and at all times, humans have told stories about where they came from, who they are and how they should live their lives. ”Myths and Mythologies” brings together the key classic and …

John J. Fitzgerald addresses here one of life”s enduring questions – how to achieve personal fulfillment and more specifically whether we can do so through ethical conduct. He focuses on two signifi …