'No, but we are different. Tonpa Sherab treated men and women in the same way, he passed on his teachings to both men and women and that is why we nuns are on equal footing with the monks, quite unlike the Buddhists.'The Bön religion is often seen as a part of the Tibetan Buddhism but its bond is actually far more complex and has its own origin in the history of Tibet. The role of women worshipping in both, Bön an Tibetan Buddhism, is quite different. And although there are studies on Buddh...

"Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning" by Edward Carpenter is a book that explores the origins and meaning of religious beliefs and practices in both pagan and Christian traditions. Carpenter argues that many of the fundamental beliefs and practices of Christianity have their roots in earlier pagan traditions, and that the differences between the two are largely a matter of historical and cultural context.

Carpenter examines the similarities and differences between pagan and C...

This collection of essays critically engages with Charles Taylor’s idea of a Catholic modernity through focusing on the crucial issue of the shape and role of religion in modernity. Taylor launched the idea in his seminal 1996 essay 'A Catholic Modernity?', and the idea is here explored in relation to other Christian denominations and non-Christian traditions. Taylor’s proposal has the potential to become a central and encompassing perspective in thinking about relations between modernity...

Religious Radicalism places the religious motives and mechanisms behind radicalism under scrutiny. The contributors of this edited volume observe a growing lack of understanding of religion in secular policy-bodies, as well as in the academic world in Europe and beyond. They put forward an approach ‘from within’, in an attempt to provide policymakers with workable tools and a user-friendly method with which to constructively tackle religious radicalism. A major underlying issue is that of...

This book presents the various Churches and ecclesial communities in the Middle East, focusing on the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox and the Oriental Catholic Churches, the spiritual heritage of the Coptic, Syriac and Armenian traditions. The Christians in the Middle East can be called a Church of martyrs.

Listening to witnesses of faith in the first centuries, as well as to the martyrs of our time, this book reveals the cruel reality of the ‘forgotten genocides’ at th...

Ad fontes (to the sources) is the famous academic adagium. When a Classical scholar goes to the fontes in the New Testament, the Greek and Roman writings and inscriptions, and the works of the early Christians, the result is exciting and new. Where, when and why did Paul write his letters? This book does not give only dates without explanation, but all the texts to see how to get the dates and to judge for yourself what is right. What about Paul's travels after what can be read in the book of...