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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Syncretist & eclectic religions & belief systems
All Religion Is Inter-Religion analyses the ways inter-religious
relations have contributed both historically and philosophically to
the constructions of the category of "religion" as a distinct
subject of study. Regarded as contemporary classics, Steven M.
Wasserstrom's Religion after Religion (1999) and Between Muslim and
Jew (1995) provided a theoretical reorientation for the study of
religion away from hierophanies and ultimacy, and toward lived
history and deep pluralism. This book distills and systematizes
this reorientation into nine theses on the study of religion.
Drawing on these theses--and Wasserstrom's opus more generally--a
distinguished group of his colleagues and former students
demonstrate that religions can, and must, be understood through
encounters in real time and space, through the complex relations
they create and maintain between people, and between people and
their pasts. The book also features an afterword by Wasserstrom
himself, which poses nine riddles to students of religion based on
his personal experiences working on religion at the turn of the
twenty-first century.
At the end of his life, Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was
his special destiny: to bring to the West a knowledge of
reincarnation and karma. To do this, he gave over eighty lectures
in 1924 in which he explicitly and concretely revealed the
destinies of various individuals from one life to the next in order
to show how the general laws of karma operate in individual cases.
He also revealed many details of the karmic streams of the members
of the Anthroposophical Society. These volumes constitute an
immeasurable contribution to the understanding of reincarnation and
karma, and the tasks of the Anthroposophical Society in connection
with the Archangel Michael. This new edition also includes
Steiner's last address along with; the karmic groups of souls
connected to Aristotelianism and Platonism, the karma of the
anthroposophical movement, as well as the individual incarnations
of Ernst Haeckel, Vladimir Solovioff and others.
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