World Famous Comics: Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions
Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions
From: ABC-CLIO Publisher: ABC-CLIO Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: ABC-CLIO Number of Items: 2 Number of Pages: 665 Publication Date: November 15, 2007 Release Date: November 15, 2007
Product Description: This is the first comprehensive resource on the subject of love in the teachings of the world's major religions, cultures, and philosophies.What do the world's major faiths teach us about the many forms of love - divine and human, spiritual and sexual, romantic and altruistic? To assume those precepts to always be stern, simplistic, and strictly focused on the divine is to miss out on one of the richest sources of interpretation of the most complex of human emotions."Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions" is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive portrait of love in the context of the classic and contemporary literature of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as other cultures and philosophies. Like no volume published to date, it reveals the full richness of religious teachings on love in all its many forms, exploring an extensive range of topics that offer philosophical, psychological, and religious perspectives to guide the quest for the meaning of love." Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions" features approximately 300 subject entries, as well as insightful biographic sketches of preeminent thinkers, all written by a multidisciplinary team of some of the foremost scholars on the subject. The entries examine both general and culture-specific interpretations of love: not just the dichotomy of spiritual and physical love, but the full emotional spectrum of love in relationships and practices. Collectively, they encompass love's integral - and sometimes conflicting - role in shaping beliefs and behavior in a vastly diverse world.
An A-Z listing of articles on sociology, religious studies, and philosophy The 2-volume set Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions is a top pick for any high school to college-level collection strong in world religious studies. It packs in an A-Z listing of articles on sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, surveying various religious traditions, beliefs, mind/body/spirit connections and philosophies, and more. Each article comes with a bibliography for further reading, perfect for supplemental religious studies review, and important as introductions to world religious beliefs on love.
Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch
A long-awaited, much-needed resource! I won't feign objectivity ... I believe this invaluable resource will prove to be amazingly helpful for anyone who is interested in the great religious traditions of the world. That's why I signed on to the project with Yudit Greenberg, and why I'm honored to have two articles in this encyclopedia (on the topics of Christian Teachers of Love and Hospitality Across the Religions).
There are few subjects that interest us more than love, yet for all the ways we use and abuse the notion, just what is love? It bears such profound importance in so much of human religiosity yet are we prepared to offer a definition for it? This volume will surely be of great use to those of us who are thirsting to understand love's place in the teachings of the great religions. Every library should invest in a copy. I believe it's destined to be one of those important, comprehensive resources that must not be overlooked.
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