Comparitive Religion


Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog
The Abolition of Man
The Perennial Philosophy
The Golden Bough
In the Beginning: Creation Myths from Ancient Mesopotamia, Israel and Greece (American Academy of Religion)
Living Buddha, Living Christ
Simone Weil
“ The comparison of religions is only possible, in some measure, through the miraculous virtue of sympathy. We can know men to a certain extent if at the same time as we observe them from the outside we manage by sympathy to transport our own soul into theirs for a time. In the same way the study of different religions does not lead to a real knowledge of them unless we transport ourselves for a time by faith to the very center of whichever one we are studying...This scarcely ever happens, for som ...more ”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God