Human Science / Philosophy / Religious

Scientology from Islamic Perspective

by Muhammad Vandestra

Scientology has been called the world’s most significant new religion, and Scientologists themselves claim to draw on 50,000 years of wisdom. However apostates from Scientology claim it is a vicious, dangerous...

Kitab Suci Al-Quran Edisi Bilingual Bahasa Arab & Bahasa Inggris

by Muhammad Vandestra

Kitab Suci Al-Quran & Terjemahannya Edisi Bilingual Dalam Bahasa Arab dan Bahasa Inggris. The Noble Quran Bilingual Edition In English and Arabic Languange.

Kitab Suci Al_Quran ialah kitab suci bagi umat Islam....

The Way of Perfection

by St. Teresa of Avila & E. Allison Peers

This classic of the interior life and Christian mysticism remains as fresh and inspiring today as it was 400 years ago. Written by a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun, it forms a practical...

Political and Spiritual: Essays on Religion, Environment, Disability, and Justice

by Roger S. Gottlieb

This book gathers a variety of illuminating essays by an internationally known scholar of religion and ecology. New writings on technology, facing death, and an intellectual autobiography continue Gottlieb’s...

Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age

by Alexander Bard, Jan Soderqvist & John Wright

Internet as a religion – A thought-provocing analysis of our times and an inspiring insight into tomorrow.

The Christian Heritage: Problems and Prospects

by George Anastaplo & Martin E. Marty

The Christian Heritage delves into the history of the western Christian heritage. Challenges to the Christian heritage, a heritage nourished both by Judaism and by the western classics, have been stimulated...

The high ideal

by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

‘Every ideal, whatever it may be, has a magical quality: it is linked to us, and it transmits something of its very quintessence. If we have chosen a very high ideal, it will constantly supply us with beneficial...

Heaven's Chancellery

by Irina Zakirova

There is no universally accepted definition of moral damages. The concept is usually understood in the context of torts that cause psychological harm to a person that are difficult to quantify. Heaven’s Chancellery...

Metaphysical Problems, Political Solutions: Self, State, and Nation in Hobbes and Locke

by Asaf Z. Sokolowski

This book seeks to read the political thought of classic thinkers of the liberal tradition in the context of their metaphysical and theological writings. Sokolowski demonstrates that the political measures offered...

Buddhist Responses to Globalization

by James Mark Shields, Leah Kalmanson, John W. M. Krummel & Melanie L. Harris et al.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays highlights the relevance of Buddhist doctrine and practice to issues of globalization. From philosophical, religious, historical, and political perspectives, the authors...

The Fortieth Day

by Kazim Ali

An exciting younger poet explores the rhetoric of prayer and the dizzying possibilities of meditative ecstasy.

Darling Vulgarity

by Michael Waters

Vivid and sensual new poems from the editor of the prestigious Contemporary American Poetry.

Finite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home

by Steven A. Burr

Finite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home introduces and situates “existential exile” as an experience of the fundamental finitude of human existence and demonstrates how a particular...

Atheist Persona: Causes and Consequences

by John J. Pasquini

Atheist Persona is a summary of the most recent research on the subject of atheism. In an effort to create a more courteous dialogue between theists and atheists, this book acknowledges that while there are...

Echoes of Aquinas in Cusanus's Vision of Man

by Markus Führer

This book examines the influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas upon Nicholas of Cusa’s (Cusanus) doctrine of human nature. It explores this influence against the background of other authors associated with Cusanus’...

Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Truth

by J. R. Hustwit

Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Truth argues that in inter-religious dialogue, we must not dismiss truth claims—whether metaphysical, ethical, or aesthetic—as mere cultural preference or existential...

Translating Totality in Parts: Chengguan's Commentaries and Subcommentaries to the Avatamska Sutra

by Guo Cheen

This book offers an annotated translation of two of preeminent Chinese Tang dynasty monk Chengguan’s most revered masterpieces. With this book, Chengguan’s Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra and The Meanings...

Levinas Faces Biblical Figures

by Yael Lin, Eli Schonfeld, Gary D. Mole & Elisabeth Goldwyn et al.

Levinas Faces Biblical Figures captures the drama of the encounter between a great philosopher and a text of primary importance. The book considers the ways in which Levinas's thoughts can open up the biblical...

Buddha at the Apocalypse

by Kurt Spellmeyer & Robert Thurman

Timely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world - and offers a clarion call to awaken from a pervasive...

Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason

by Sara L. McClintock

The great Buddhist scholars Santaraksita (725 - 88 CE.) and his disciple Kamalasila were among the most influential thinkers in classical India. They debated ideas not only within the Buddhist tradition but...