The Abrahamic Religions and the Classical Tradition
in The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions
October 2015; p ublished online November 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Religion; Religious Studies; Comparative Religion. 8641 words.
The classical tradition not only provided the backdrop against which the Abrahamic religions emerged, but also provided a constant source of inspiration for their development over the...
An African Religions Perspective
in The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity
December 2010; p ublished online January 2011 .
Article. Subjects: Religion; Comparative Religion. 7118 words.
A very fundamental fact about African religions is that they are not institutional religions. They do not have an organization that one becomes a member of upon converting or being...
Afterlife in American Religion
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
P ublished online June 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Comparative Religion; Religious Studies. 11969 words.
Heaven and hell have survived in the United States beyond scientific critiques of the supernatural. For many Americans, the promise of eternal rewards and the threat of everlasting...
Ancient Near Eastern Millennialism
in The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism
October 2011; p ublished online January 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Religion; Philosophy of Religion; Religion in the Ancient World; Religious Studies; Comparative Religion. 8772 words.
Although there existed no real millennial text prior to late Jewish and early Christian texts, there exists an overabundance of resources that heavily draw on millennial texts. This article...
Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Egypt
in The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies
February 2008; p ublished online September 2009 .
Article. Subjects: Religion; Religion in the Ancient World; Religious Studies; Comparative Religion. 4107 words.
This article looks at the impact of ancient Near Eastern studies on biblical scholarship. Before 1800, no accurate first-hand knowledge of Egypt's ancient remains was available to compare...
Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Mesopotamia
in The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies
February 2008; p ublished online September 2009 .
Article. Subjects: Religion; Religion in the Ancient World; Religious Studies; Comparative Religion. 5608 words.
This article discusses the impact of ancient Near Eastern studies on biblical scholarship, focusing on written remains of all kinds. Ancient Mesopotamia has yielded tens of thousands of...
Anglican
in The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies
P ublished online October 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Christianity; Comparative Religion. 8267 words.
This chapter traces the Anglican commitment to, and involvement in, the ecumenical movement from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, particularly as reflected in resolutions of...
Apocalyptic Religion and Violence
in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence
January 2013; p ublished online March 2013 .
Article. Subjects: Religion; Religious Studies; Comparative Religion; Islam. 4184 words.
This chapter offers a working definition of the apocalyptic, followed by some of the apocalyptic's most important constituent components. Then, it concentrates on associations between these...
Aquinas and Atheism
in The Oxford Handbook of Atheism
November 2013; p ublished online December 2013 .
Article. Subjects: Religion; Alternative Belief Systems; Christianity; Comparative Religion; Religious Studies; Philosophy of Religion. 9501 words.
This essay aims to explain what Aquinas does and does not mean when using the word ‘God’. It also tries to explain why Aquinas thinks it reasonable to conclude that God exists and how...
Architecture, the Built Environment, and Religion in America
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
P ublished online January 2018 .
Article. Subjects: Comparative Religion; Religion and Art, Literature, and Music; Religious Studies. 7732 words.
The development of religious architecture in what is now the United States is tied closely to continuing immigration and the development both of de facto and de jure religious pluralism....
