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Common Features In The Development Of Three World Religions, Lorin Geitner
Common Features In The Development Of Three World Religions, Lorin Geitner
Lorin C. Geitner
The religions of Manichaeism, Sikhism and Bahai share an unusual combination of traits: they are all inclusivist, syncretistic and universalizing. This paper compares the context of their creation to determine if there were any common social, political and historical pressures present at that time which would account for these similarities.
Law And Religion – The First Amendment And The Problems Of Alienation, Lorin Geitner
Law And Religion – The First Amendment And The Problems Of Alienation, Lorin Geitner
Lorin C. Geitner
A survey of the different patterns of the relationship between of law to religion (and vice versa) in the course of world history, in order to provide historical and legal context and argue for the notion that the United States, truly, a secular society, but rather a religiously pluralistic one.
The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment In The Land Of The Tattered Buddha, Stephen Asma
The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment In The Land Of The Tattered Buddha, Stephen Asma
Stephen T Asma
Asma, a professor of Buddhism at Columbia College in Chicago and the author of Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads (2001), recounts his intense and revelatory Cambodian adventures while teaching at Phnom Penh's Buddhist Institute. In an electrifying and frank mix of hair-raising anecdotes and expert analysis, he explicates the vast difference between text-based Buddhist teachings and daily life in a poor and politically volatile Buddhist society. Amid tales of massage parlors, marijuana-spiced pizza, and bloodshed, he cogently explains how Theravada Buddhism, the form practiced throughout Southeast Asia, differs from the Buddhism Westerners are familiar with, and how entwined it is …
End-Times In The East: Eschatology In Hinduism And Jainism, Lorin Geitner
End-Times In The East: Eschatology In Hinduism And Jainism, Lorin Geitner
Lorin C. Geitner
A comparative examination of the idea of end-times is Hinduism and Jainism.
Mary And Isis, Lorin Geitner
Mary And Isis, Lorin Geitner
Lorin C. Geitner
An examination of the degree to which the modern conception of the Virgin Mary was affected and influenced by the cult of Isis.