The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism

5 best books like The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (Tomoko Masuzawa): What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic, Kokoro, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Author	Richard Nelson Bolles
ISBN	1580087949

I had imagined this would be a simple guide helping people to gain employment, little did I realise that this was all to the greater glory of God and would have nothing to do with parachutes.

"God loves a Trinity", the particularly irritating little kid who used to regularly beat me at chess when...

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

Author	R.K. Narayan
ISBN	0143039679

The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age,...

Kokoro

Author	Natsume Sōseki
ISBN	0809260956

A languid, melancholic dream of a novel which pierces the heart of the reader with its quiet intensity.

Cautious in its narrative tread on the ground of contentious issues, delicate in its broaching of subjects like the indignity of death, sin and redemption, existentialist ennui, self-recrimination...

When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God

Author	T.M. Luhrmann
ISBN	0307264793

How does God become and remain real for modern evangelicals? How are rational, sensible people of faith able to experience the presence of a powerful yet invisible being and sustain that belief in an environment of overwhelming skepticism? T. M. Luhrmann, an anthropologist trained in psychology...

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

Author	Saba Mahmood
ISBN	0691086958

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement...