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