In this classic work, prominent religious philosopher John Hick presents a global interpretation of religion, arguing for a religious response to our ambiguous universe and showing how the world’s different religions are culturally conditioned forms of that response. Praise for the first edition: “This book strengthens Hick’s position as one of the most significant thinkers of the second …
This book argues that the understanding and explanation of religion are always historically contingent. Grounded in the work of Bakhtin and Ricoeur, Flood positions the academic study of religion within contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities concerning modernity and postmodernity, particularly contested issues regarding truth and knowledge. It challenges the view that religi…
An introduction to the history of religions surveys the attitudes toward religion expressed by thinkers, scholars, and writers from classical antiquity to the twentieth century
Beginning with the missionary expansion of the 15th century, this story goes on to trace the fracturing of the Christian movement among Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant versions; the impact of modern colonialism and the emergence of a new global reality; the wars of religion, the impact of the Enlightenment, the rise of Christianity in North America, and the modern missionary movement.
This first comprehensive account of Christianity as a world religion is a landmark, offering the work of five years of a team of 43 international scholars and consultants. For the first time, the peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Near East take their rightful place in the account of the unfolding of the Christian story from its beginnings to the 15th century.
Though the Romans to some extent brought about religious uniformity in the Empire by spreading the worship of their own gods, and by adopting those of their subjects, there was, of course, no such religion as Paganism - only a body of cults, not welded into a coherent whole, and presenting themselves under many different aspects.1 The ceremonies and institutions of the old national faith hardly…
These eleven essays originally delivered as the annual Louis J. Luzbetak Lectures at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago focus on the relationship between mission and culture. The authors include missiologists Jose M. de Mesa, Darrell L. Whiteman, Aylward Shorter, John Kirby, and Angelyn Dries; anthropolgists Linda E. Thomas, Anthony J. Gittens, and Philip Gibbs; and theologians Gemma T. …