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Conceptions of the Afterlife BOOK REVIEW
by Dr. Ken R. Vincent

Conceptions of Afterlife in Early Civilizations is a very well-written book by a consummate scholar. Each of Gregory Shushan’s sentences is pregnant with facts. …

Hindu Goddesses Visions of It’s really a look at the Goddesses from a scholar’s point of view without any religious attitudes whatsoever toward the subject matter. He treats the goddesses kind of like they’re archaic symbols …

Japanese Mythology Hermeneutics on The notion of Japanese mythology was invented in the modern era under the influence of Westernization. Before the modern era, only the notion history existed in Japan. Mythological events were …

Love the Sin Sexual In their co-written book, Jakobsen and Pellegrini have presented a compelling account of the enduring role of “sin” in contemporary political discourse, from the Clinton impeachment proceedings to …

Human Rights or Religious Drawing on historical inisights, systematic reflections and empirical data, this book offers a substantive understanding of the complex relationship between religion and human rights and of the …

Spirit Possession and Trance This title offers new and invaluable insights into the understanding of possession and trance based on case studies from around the world. Spirit possession is a phenomenon that often elicits a …

Women in the Hindu This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system. It explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical …

Sacred Spaces Religious Architecture A great deal has been written about religious architecture in ancient cultures, but the great bulk of the literature has tended to be culture-specific. Wightman’s volume offers for the first time a …

America s Alternative Religions Recommended for the student of Religious Studies. This book is informative and covers a vast amount of information on the so-called alternative religions in America today. The chapters are short, …

The Qur an and This classic text brings together a unique collection of commentaries, translated from the original Arabic, on some of the key passages of the Qur’an. S18 v85 when he reached the setting of the …

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