Religion: The Basics

By Malory Nye

From the debates about faith schools to the polemics of Richard Dawkins, Religion is, more than ever, an important and hotly debated part of modern...

Published May 9th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Nile Green, Mary Searle-Chatterjee

Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’...

Published March 26th 2008 by Routledge.

Introducing World Religions

By Victoria Kennick Urubshurow

Introducing World Religions offers an exciting new approach to the study of the world's religions. Taking its inspiration from performance studies and using and innovative...

Published March 14th 2008 by Routledge.

A Study of the Madhyamika System

By T R V Murti

Originally published in 1955.

The Madhyamika philosophy is, in the author’s view, the philosophy which created a revolution in Buddhism and through that in the whole...

Published February 15th 2008 by Routledge.

Essays from The Wheel

By Ven Nyanaponika

Originally published in 1971.

The essays in this volume cover some of the most important aspects of Buddhism and include discussion of such themes as the...

Published February 15th 2008 by Routledge.

By Peter Masefield

Originally published in 1986.

In this study of initiation in the Nikayas (Discourses of the Buddha), the author presents evidence which makes it clear that salvation...

Published February 15th 2008 by Routledge.

By Heinrich Zimmer

Originally published in 1973.

The volume is divided into four sections:

1. The introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.

By E F C Ludowyk

Originally published in 1958, this volume discusses the Buddhist monuments of Sri Lanka, which represent a distinctive and valuable portion of the art of the...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.

By Floyd H. Ross

Originally published in 1952.

This volume, by discussing significant insights of Hinduism and Buddhism, answers the question "What is the meaning of life?" It illustrates the...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.

Its Philosophy and History

By F Harold Smith

Originally published in 1951.

This study of Buddhism deals with the early tradition, followed by a brief consideration of its historicity and the form the religion...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.