Navigate the world's belief systems with this faith-filled resource!Want to learn more about Judaism? Confused about Confucianism? This book is the answer to your prayers! World Religions DeMYSTiFieD is filled with the knowledge you need to ace a religion exam or satisfy your own curiosity.Written by a professor of religion, World Religions DeMYSTiFieD gives you a tour of belief systems found around the globe. You will learn about the world's major relig...

The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran grew up in the Hindu tradition in India, and learned Sanskri...

Words of ancient wisdom from some of the world’s most seminal textsThe Wisdom of the Torah is an instruction in the central beliefs of three world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But by observing the Torah, or the Hebrew Bible, as a collected work of multiple authors spanning generations, the modern reader can look beyond its fundamental instruction. In these works, readers find many lyrical and timeless reflections on what it means to have fa...

Death is a subject obscured by fear and denial. When we do think of dying, we are more often concerned with how to avoid the pain and suffering that may accompany our death than we are with really confronting the meaning of death and how to approach it. Sushila Blackman places death—and life—in a truer perspective, by telling us of others who have left this world with dignity.Graceful Exits offers valuable guidance in the form of 108 stories recounting the ways in which H...

In "The Garland of Letters" the english orientalist Sir. John Woodroffe ( Arthur Avalon ) explaines a particular way inside the tantric tradition: the way of tantra sastra, the bija, the chakra an the related mantra.Contents:Author's PrefaceTHE GARLAND OF LETTERS (VARṆ AMĀLĀ)I. Vāk or the WordII. Artha, Pratyaya and ŚabdaIII. Aśabda and ParaśabdaIV. Paraśabda, Causal ŚabdaV. Śakti as StressVI. Eternality of ŚabdaVII. Śa...

Buddhism is one of the top religion in the world, with its teachings coming from Hinduism. Along the years, the teachings change and evolve into Buddhism, and now widely accepted as the 4th biggest religion in the world.This ebook compiles tons of tips about Buddhism, with the aim of allowing everyone to understand more about this religion, such as the history, teachings, practicing, etc ... which eventually lead to no war.Get this ebook, open your mind and see what you can...

The text, along with the Zhuangzi, is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism, and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism, Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Daoist words and concepts.Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners, have used the Daodejing as a source of inspiration.

What are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from gods, fairies, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? This Very Short Introduction outlines some of the more prominent stories and speculations about angels in Judaism, Islam, Christianity and post-Christian spiritualities. It reflects on the way that angels have been portrayed in art, whether as young men in the Hebrew Scriptures, androgynous winged creatures of the pre-Raphaelites ...

When people begin to search for religions, they may start with talking to friends and family, people that they know and trust. They may have heard of them going to church, and might want to try that out. Others that are looking into more eastern traditions such as Confucianism, Buddhism or Taoism may decide to travel to the Far East, go to the many Holy Places in order to have a better grasp on what they are supposed to be doing with their life. Their search for that perfect religion may b...

This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures—old and new—in modern Canada.Each essay explores the ways in which the religiosities of women serve as locations for both the assertion and the refashioning of individua...

The miracle stories of the founders and saints of the major world religions have much in common. Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in not only Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, but also, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our largely secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief. The miracles of Jesus are also contextualized th...

Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as “ethics,” “religion,” “law,” or “social order,” dharma possesses elements of each of these but is not confined to any single category familiar to Western thought. Neither is it the straightforward equivalent of what many in the West might usually consider to be “a philosophy”. Thi...