Cultural Awareness Knowledge Centers

The shift in recent years from secular to religious political violence necessitates a reevaluation of contemporary political violence and of the concept of religious violence. This text analyzes the evolution of religious political violence, in both historical and contemporary perspectives.

An extraordinary survey, in four volumes, of the religious belief and practice in all 276 of the world's nations and territories.Photographs of religious leaders, ceremonies, sacred structures, and artifacts such as an Aboriginal sacred Churunga and the Gurujem Monastery in Tibet .

Pelikan explores the evolution of the Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic versions and the development of the printing press and its effect on the Reformation, the translation into modern languages, and varying schools of critical scholarship. Whose Bible Is It? is a triumph of scholarship that is also a pleasure to read.

A handy reference book that provides essential information on different world religions. Religions covered include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Bahai, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto.

This second edition provides a comprehensive overview of not only the world's major religions but also other non-scriptural, cultural and ancient religions as well.