Comparative Religion


A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
The Bhagavad Gita
القرآن الكريم
The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History
The World's Religions
The Golden Bough
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
The Battle for God
The Power of Myth
Tao Te Ching
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Perennial Philosophy
One of the earliest attempts to portray the human embodiment of the divine was made by the ancient Hindus a few centuries before the Christian era. In the ancient Hindu scriptures, the sacred hymns called the Vedas, the god Indra wandered about in many forms, sometimes as a bull and sometimes as a ram, and the god Varuna is said to have come out of the point of an arrow and appeared as a bull. [...] The Sanskrit terms used to express the manifestation of God coming into this world evolved from r ...more
Daniel E. Bassuk, Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: The Myth of the God-Man

Lisa Kemmerer
Most people are raised with the belief that anymal exploitation is religiously sanctioned, and they will readily defend this point of view. Consequently, arguments in favor of anymal exploitation—including religious arguments—are easy to come by. . . , but such arguments tend to be both shallow and specific, contradicting core and foundational teachings. Those who pose such arguments, when questioned, often agree readily that their religion does not teach or tolerate cruel exploitation, particul ...more
Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions

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