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First published in 1910, "The Shinto Cult" by Milton Spenser Terry is the substance of a course of lectures on the old Shinto cult which the author has given for a number of years to his classes in Comparative Religion. They are here condensed and adapted to the purpose of a little manual which, it is believed, may interest many readers, and bring together within a small space information gathered from many sources not easily accessible to ordinary students. Originally written as lectures for his comparative religion course, this volume represents Terrys investigation into the Shinto religion to enlighten missionaries, apologetics students, and interested Christians. This concise work includes observations on Christian interactions with Shinto religion and culture, as well as Shintos influences from Buddhism, Confucianism, and recent religious indifference.

Lorigine del bene e del male ha da sempre diviso i teologi e turbato le coscienze degli uomini di tutte le religioni.Questo e il terzo pamphlet di Petronio sulla storia del pensiero religioso, dopo lElogio dellEresia in due parti.Gia docente universitario di fisica nucleare e dirigente europeo di multinazionali di informatica, Petronio sviluppa in questa serie di brevissimi libelli il tema religioso e delle coscienze umane, con uno stile conciso e al tempo stesso divulgativo.

Il est d’usage dans les carmels de rédiger une « circulaire » des sœurs décédées retraçant brièvement leur vie et de la diffuser dans les carmels. Sous la responsabilité de la prieure, Mère Marie de

First published in 1785, "Reason, the Only Oracle of Man" (AKA "A Compendious System of Natural Religion") is considered the first work critical of Christianity published in the New World, but is also considered a Deist work, and a freethought work as well. Given the fact that there was a limited run and a fire in the print shop where it was created, it is a wonder that it survived.Ethan Allen, known more familiarly as a Revolutionary War hero and for having his name adopted by a furniture company, wrote this work with Dr. Thomas Young, a New York doctor who mentored Allen in philosophy and politics. Young was another Revolutionary War hero, participated in the Boston Tea Party, and was heavily involved with Colonial American politics and the establishment of state borders. Allen founded the Green Mountain Boys initially as a local militia to keep those with territorial claims out of what we know as Vermont today. (Young guided the state name of Vermont, supposedly as a tribute to the Green Mountain Boys.) Allen went on to lead the Green Mountain Boys in the war, and captured Fort Ticonderoga with them.Allen and Young discussed natural philosophy and Deism in the 1760s, and began writing this work around 1765. Several wars later, and territorial disputes mostly concluded, Allen went to Youngs widow (Young died in 1777) and retrieved the manuscript they had written so far. He rewrote some and completed it in 1785, publishing it privately in Bennington, Vermont. 1,500 copies were made, and only 200 were sold. A fire broke out and ruined many of the title. According to some, Haswell, the publisher, believed this a divine intervention, and the rest of the stock was burned. Others have argued it did not sell well, so Haswell decided to rid himself of the rest of the stock. Regardless, the only ones that remain from that first run are the ones that were initially sold.

Nicholas Herman of Lorraine, better known as Brother Lawrence, was born in 1611. He entered the Carmelite Order in Paris as a lay brother at the age of 55. Before that he served as a soldier and a footman. His conversations and letters compilation, "The Practice of the Presence of God", was published a year after his death in 1691. He is remembered in the Christian community as a shining example of total devotion to God."The Practice of the Presence of God", the ultimate collection of conversations and letters of Brother Lawrence, describe his daily habits in developing his relationship with an almighty being, God. Lawrence describes his spiritual journey from the time of his conversion, at eighteen, to just days before his death. He admonishes any person interested in an authentic religious experience to seek God continuously. If one does this, one attains a consistent relationship with God. Attitudes such as selfless love and attention to detail evidence such a relationship.Brother Lawrence sees God as his father, his friend, his judge, and his king, among other things. Each of these personifications of God arises at different points of Lawrences life and spiritual journey. Contrary to spiritual advisors of his time, Lawrence advises devotees to seek God continually and simply, not using repetitive prayers at assigned times only. Secular activities sometimes distract one from ones desired devotion, but years of constant applications and confessions eventually bring one to a place of living in the presence of God.In his letters, Brother Lawrence writes to other members of clergy, advising them and describing for them his daily habits that lead to his personal relationship with God. However, one realizes that Lawrence intends this prescription for people of any lifestyle, not just clergy. To prove this point, he includes instructions to a young solider, who Lawrence advises to seek God for safety. He also admonishes the young soldier to keep his love for people below his love for God.Brother Lawrence lives his life in humility, imploring those to whom he writes never to share his letters. He feels that his level of spiritual attainment lies in waiting for anyone who shows a proper life of devotion in all things.

First published in 1909, "Ancient and Modern Initiation" is an enlightened study of Rosicrucian philosophy from one of the esoteric leaders of the 20th century, Max Heindel. Heindel, famous mystic and occultist and founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, offers this work to help understand the history and meaning of initiation. The book collect the hidden secrets within the life of Christ and the Christian religion, revealed by Max Heindel, as he gives a mystical insight into the alchemical process of the initiation of man.A classic work of value to all students of initiation that guides the reader through esoteric and occult secrets and history from the ancient times to modern.

China is home to two major world religions, Confucianism and Taoism, and also played an important role in the historical development of a third, Northern Buddhism. Eventually, Confucianism became the state religion, and, purged of metaphysical aspects, the dominant Chinese religion until the 20th century. Other religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, have all had indigenous expressions as well.In "Confucianism and its Rivals", which was originally delivered as one of the Hibbert lectures in 1914, Herbert Allen Giles covers the entire history of Chinese religion. Giles was a British diplomat and an old China hand. He is best known for his role in developing the Wade-Giles system of transliterating Chinese. Giles was the father of Lionel Giles, who was also a distinguished orientalist, and translator of Sun Tzus "Art of War", among others.

The first edition of "A Buddhist Bible", which was tightly focused on source documents of Zen Buddhism, was self-published in Vermont by Dwight Goddard in 1932. "A Buddhist Bible" is a wide selection of readings from Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, and modern sources intended to provide the reader with a foundation in classical Buddhist thought. It is the first book to bring together the key texts of modern Buddhism.In the last hundred years, the world, especially the West, has increasingly embraced the teachings of Buddhism. A modern Buddhist Bible is the first anthology to bring together the writings from Buddhists, both Eastern and Western, that have redefined Buddhism for our era."A Buddhist Bible" has had a huge influence on the growth of Buddhism in the English-speaking world in the 20th century and beyond.

First published in 1902, "The Varieties of Religious Experience" by William James, a psychologist and philosopher who taught at Harvard, contains, in edited form, a series of natural theology lectures called the Gifford Lectures which he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the two years leading up to its publication. The lectures argue about the nature of religion and the tendency of modern religious studies to ignore the importance of science in their research. The lectures, immediately acclaimed, are considered part of the Western canon. The lectures also contain hints of Jamess developing notion of pragmatism, which he later synthesised in his 1907 book, "Pragmatism".

First published in 1929, "The Garden of Vision" treats the debt of Japan to Zen Buddhism.Once again Lily Adams Becks sets her work in Asia, more specifically in Japan, as a great connoisseur of its c

First published in 1917, "God the Invisible King" is a theological work published by one of the worlds most respected and cherished authors, H.G. Wells. Wells wrote in this book that his idea of God did not draw upon the traditional religions of the world, so he had a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. Later in the work he aligns himself with a "renascent or modern religion ... neither atheist nor Buddhist nor Mohammedan nor Christian ... [that] he has found growing up in himself." A theological must read from the one of the most admired authors!

First published in 1678, John Bunyans "The Pilgrims Progress" is often considered the first novel written in English, a work of religious fiction, and also a very influential work of Christian philosophy.The work is a symbolic vision of the good mans pilgrimage through life. At one time second only to the Bible in popularity, "The Pilgrims Progress" is the most famous Christian allegory still in print. It was first published in the reign of Charles II and was largely written while its Puritan author was imprisoned for offences against the Conventicle Act of 1593.The author dreams about a man named Christian, who is struggling with his spirituality. He is visited by Evangelist, a spiritual guide, who orders him to go to the Celestial City, Mount Zion. Christians wife and children refuse to leave their home and accompany him, so he abandons them...

"The Gospel of Buddha" by American author Paul Carus was first published in 1894. This work soon became a worldwide bestseller, completely eclipsing the one previous attempt to popularise Buddhism in the West, Sir Edwin Arnolds "The Light of Asia". Carus collected accounts of the life and teaching of the Buddha from many sources and fashioned a coherent and gripping narrative which would be understood by Americans as very much like a Christian "gospel". "The Gospel of Buddha" was quickly translated into Japanese and other Eastern languages, and was taken up by teachers in the Buddhist world.

In 1941 Charles Fillmore wrote "Teach Us to Pray". The book focused on the attitude and process of prayer, and included work that had not been previously published. It remained popular for decades after publication.Charles Fillmore founded Unity, a church within the New Thought movement, with his wife in 1889.

Il nome di Arturo Graf restera nella storia dellerudizione adorna di genialita e nella storia della poesia intima e amara. Questo professore-poeta, nato ad Atene, doveva essere commerciante, poi avvocato; ma infine divenne professore di letteratura italiana nellUniversita di Torino, dove gli studenti lo adoravano.Il DIAVOLO e un testo dove si intrecciano rigore scientifico e sensibilita poetica per analizzare e descrivere come nel Medioevo limmaginazione fosse amalgamata di religione, di credenza, di miti e leggenda.

First published in 1911, "The Creed of Half Japan" is a scholarly study of the evolution of Mahayana Buddhism in Japan by Arthur Lloyd. Lloyd was particularly interested in how Eastern religions interacted with those in the west. A Christian clergyman and long-time resident in Japan at the turn of the 20th century, Arthur Lloyd felt that Buddhism has much in common with Christianity, including possible historical links. In this book he discusses doctrinal and narrative parallels between Mahayana Buddhism and early Christian, Gnostic, and Manichean beliefs.

John Relly Beard (1800-1876) was an English Unitarian minister who wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime, including "The Life of Toussaint LOuverture" in 1853 and several reference volumes on a variety of topics.His masterpiece "The Autobiography of Satan" was published in 1872 and the goal of the book is clearly described during the Preface: As this book is intended not so much for scholars as the general public, I have not attempted more than a series of readable sketches. The same consideration has led me to adopt the autobiographical form, which, with the supposition of an intelligent companion, gives me some of the advantages of a conversational style. Only in the large portion of the work devoted to the Scriptures have I, without departing from a popular manner, aimed at a certain degree of completeness. To handle adequately all the grave topics of this comprehensive theme would require a library instead of a volume.

"The New World of Islam", written in 1921 by Americas foremost racial thinker Lothrop Stoddard, was the first work to warn the West of the Islamic revival which started in the nineteenth century and which would find its expression in the mass immigration and Islamic extremism to which the world has been subjected since the 1980s.It provides an accurate history of Islam from its founding, initial blooming and sophistication, to its decline into drudgery and the dominance of the Ottoman Turks.Lothrop Stoddard explains the roots of the Wahabbist revival and the spring of Arab, Indian, and Middle Eastern nationalism unleashed as a result of World War I, and warns that these events have set Islam in motion once again to start a reconquest of the globe for that religion.

First published in 1910, "Demons and Tongues" (AKA "Demons And Tongues: A Work of Christian Demonology") by Alma White is an interesting early 20th century look at the opinions of the Pillar of Fire movement in regards to the Pentecostal assembly and demonology twain with the same. With a quasi-eugenic approach and a focus on Revelation, this manuscript is at once interesting and perhaps dated in the christian body. Speaking of the goals of Satan, that old Devil of antiquity, and the way this being uses heresy, it shuns the very concept of speaking in tongues and relegates it to the depraved and demonic.

Il testo analizza sommariamente la storia della Chiesa di Gesu Cristo dei Santi degli Ultimi Giorni, a partire dal 1820, anno della sua genesi, e dal 1830, anno della sua fondazione, confrontando le informazioni che di volta in volta giungevano agli italiani attraverso la stampa dellepoca.Segue la storia della prima missione in Italia dal 1850 al 1860, ne presenta i convertiti e li accompagna nel loro cammino che li porto fino alla Valle del Gran Lago Salato dove, come tutti i membri dellepoca, si insediarono.Osserva lo sviluppo e la situazione attuale della Chiesa di Gesu Cristo dei Santi degli Ultimi Giorni in Italia fino alla costruzione del tempio di Roma.