Títulos en Estudios religiosos

Often seen as the author of timeless Christian theology, Paul himself heatedly maintained that he lived and worked in history's closing hours. His letters propel his listeners into two ancient worlds, one Jewish, one pagan. The first was incandescent with apocalyptic hopes, expecting God through his messiah to fulfill his ancient promises of redemption to Israel. The second teemed with ancient actors, not only human but also divine: angry superhuman forces, jealous demons, and hostile cosmic gods.

The history of Jewish persecution is as old as the written word, though the epithet anti-Semitism was conceived only in the late 19th century, as it reached the beginning of its most horrifying chapter. Throughout Christian history the hatred and prejudice toward the Jewish people have often been blamed on the betrayal and crucifixion of Christ, but ethnic Jewish oppression began long before. It is beyond dispute that antisemitism in our societies is on the increase.

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...

How did the shift from matriarchy to patriarchy come about? In fascinating detail, Merlin Stone tells us the story of the Goddess who reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. Under her reign, societal roles differed markedly from those in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures: women bought and sold property, traded in the marketplace, and inherited title and land from their mothers.

Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as The Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer, and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It has been described as the compendium of literature in demonology of the 15th century.

El conocimiento prohibido desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días. El mago invoca en secreto a las fuerzas de la oscuridad. El grimorio ha sido abierto. Habla. Grita. A veces sangra. Invoca a los espíritus del inframundo. El libro se convierte en la puerta que comunica el mundo de los vivos...

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Isis y Osiris es una obra importante para comprender tanto la mitología egipcia como el pensamiento religioso y filosófico en la antigüedad. Plutarco proporciona una interpretación perspicaz de estos mitos y sus significados, lo que lo convierte en un recurso valioso para los estudiosos interesados en la religión y la cultura del mundo antiguo. A través de sus obras, Plutarco dejó un legado perdurable en la literatura y el pensamiento occidental.

Starting his journey from Jerusalem and passing through Nasibus and Iran, Jesus is shown to have reached Afghanistan where he met the Jews who had settled there...

Brought to you by Penguin. From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in...

Hay muchas civilizaciones que nos hablan de seres reptilianos que llegaron a nuestro planeta para cambiar nuestro destino, que nos modificaron genéticamente para evolucionar a lo que somos actualmente. Pero es esa misma historia la que no nos describe qué son realmente estos seres, y qué han hecho en nuestro planeta.

Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.

La interpretación de los signos generales de una grafía facilita la clave, no de los detalles de la personalidad profunda de un sujeto, sino de aquello que podríamos llamar “el color” o “la personalidad” de una escritura. A través del análisis de la grafía de una persona se puede conocer su personalidad en forma integral, pudiendo determinar características generales del carácter, de los aspectos de comportamiento, del equilibrio mental y de la naturaleza de las emociones.

Adam F. Thompson and Adrian Beale, authors of the best-selling The Divinity Code to Understanding Your Dreams and Visions, provide a one-of-a-kind resource for equipping you to partner with Heaven’s angelic hosts.You will learn how decreeing God’s word sends angels on assignment, speaking in tongues ignites action in the angelic realm, there are supernatural portals of angelic activity, angels are couriers of revelation from Heaven to Earth, the different ranks, roles, and functions angels occupy, and much more.

This unique biography, told in a lively manner through six 'voices', presents the Buddha's revolutionary solution for humanity that lends to the end of ill will, craving and delusion. It goes back to the earliest sources of the Buddha's life and teachings, drawing as it does from the Pali Canon...

In 1925, James Henry Breasted sent a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to excavate the ancient site of Megiddo - Armageddon in the New Testament. Their excavations made headlines around the world and shed light on one of the most legendary cities of biblical times. Digging Up Armageddon brings to life one of the most important archaeological expeditions ever undertaken, describing the site and what was found there, and providing an up-close look at the internal workings of a dig in the early years of biblical archaeology.

Ronald Hutton is known for his colorful, provocative, and always exhaustively researched studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world, that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society since 1800.

In the course of their investigation into Leonardo da Vinci, Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince found clues about his strangely passionate belief in the importance of John the Baptist. Here, along with a re-assessment of the significance of Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Feminine, the authors reveal...

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""C.S. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way."" — Anthony Burgess, New York Times Book Review Our moral consciousness and moral judgements are proof to the human race that a moral being...