The mystics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were, writes Karen Armstrong, like "the astronauts of our own day. They broke into a new religion, blazed a new trail to God and to the depths o…
The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4.000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity procla…
The articles in this volume represent recent work in Finnish anthropology on gender and the way in which gendered relations are an integral part of social relations. The five articles, which includ…
Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-shaped and altered the conception of God? how have these religion influenced each other. In t…