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Die ganze Vielfalt des Glaubens Welche Tradition befolgen orthodoxe Juden und was ist ein Mudschaheddin? Seit Jahrtausenden prägen Religionen, Glaube und Spiritualität das Leben von Menschen überall auf der Welt. Ob Christentum, Hinduismus oder Islam - dieses illustrierte Nachschlagewerk erzählt anhand der heiligen Texte, religiösen Artefakte und wichtigsten Glaubensvorstellungen die faszinierende Geschichte der großen Weltreligionen und stel...

Publicado originalmente en Gran Bretaäna en 1997"--Title page verso.

Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.

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An essential guide to religion that explores and explains the history and key teachings of the world's five main religions--Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism--alongside newer faiths.Baffled by Buddhism? Confused by Catholicism? Mystified by Mysticism? Discover everything you need to know about the world's major religious faiths. World Religions examines the central practices, important figures, and key teachings of many diff...

Learn everything you need to know about the central practices, important figures, and key teachings of many different religions.Each of the major faiths - including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Islam - is examined in detail through its sacred texts, epic imagery, key beliefs and religious artefacts. Entries also explore other faiths from Zoroastrianism - the oldest "living" religion - to the alternative belie...

Die wichtigsten Religionen der Welt werden in diesem reich illustriertem Buch anschaulich erklärt: Vom Christentum, Judentum und Islam über fernöstliche Religionen bis hin zu den Riten der Naturvölker. Leicht lesbare und sachliche Texte vermitteln Geschichte und Grundzüge der Glaubensrichtungen, ihrer wichtigsten Schriften, Traditionen und Rituale. Das ausgewogene Text-Bild-Verhältnis vermittelt Wissen, Werte und Traditionen und ermöglicht ein...

The capacity of religion to bring about conflict between groups or furthermore to motivate violence and terrorism is analysed in relation to whether religion is worth the harm it causes, by eminent religious commentator John Bowker.

John Bowker aporta nuevas y sustanciales propuestas a los debates en torno al valor la muerte. Tras examinar la tematica de la amistad y el sacrificio dentro de cada una de las principales religiones, Bowker sostiene que existen numerosos puntos de contacto vital entre ellas respecto a la experiencia de la muerte, y que las actitudes religiosas y laicas pueden reforzarse mutuamente.

John Bowker's poems and translations have been published in many places. They are gathered here in a single volume for the first time. The translations are made from poems that come from different parts of the world, ranging from the Middle East to India, China, and Japan.

An Alphabet of Animals gathers together in words and photographs some of the many ways in which people have looked at animals and have thought about them. From different ages, both past and present, and from many different parts of the world, this book records in words and photographs how people have responded to the animals around them. Animals have been exploited and abused, but they have also been admired so much that a monkey has been seen...

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A magisterial single-volume survey of the great literature of the religions of the world, from the Bible and the Quran to the Vedas and The Analects of Confucius. Quite simply, a comprehensive guide to religions and their texts in one volume.

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John Bowker demonstrates why we need to examine both negative and positive aspects of religion to understand religion in the modern world.

Most discussions attribute the 2008 financial crisis to financial complexity and regulatory laxity. According to Thomas Oatley, such explanations are incomplete. Through an examination of America's postwar history, this book demonstrates that episodes of major financial instability develop every time the United States engages in a large deficit-financed military buildup.

Offers readers a sweeping survey of the writings of the major religions of the world, providing a thoughtful introduction to the ideas and beliefs upon which great faiths are built.

In today's world, faith and reason are viewed as opposing functions. But recent discoveries in the neurosciences are revealing startling facts about the workings of the human mind and how certain ideas are processed into beliefs. Some people think red is a nicer color than green. Some think the Boston Red Sox are more worthy of support than the Chicago Cubs. And some people think that terrorist acts are heroic. How do people reach these conclu...

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A massive collection of pornography inspires a brilliant MIT student to explore the limits of the human mind in "A Question of Storage" by John Bowker, the featured story in the Spring 2013 issue of Big Pulp (cover art by Phil Good). This issue also features more than 25 more great stories and poems from Steven Axelrod, K.C. Ball, Robert Bagnall, Michael Bracken, Alison Downs, Malon Edwards, Milo James Fowler, Lee Hammerschmidt, Tom Larsen, Ti...