Table of Contents
Brief Contents
CHAPTER 1
RELIGIOUS RESPONSES 2
CHAPTER 2
INDIGENOUS SACRED WAYS 39
CHAPTER 3
HINDUISM 64
CHAPTER 4
JAINISM 96
CHAPTER 5
BUDDHISM 114
CHAPTER 6
CHINESE RELIGIONS 144
CHAPTER 7
SHINTO 182
CHAPTER 8
JUDAISM 198
CHAPTER 9
CHRISTIANITY 235
CHAPTER 10
ISLAM 275
CHAPTER 11
SIKHISM 316
CHAPTER 12
NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS 335
CHAPTER 13
RELIGION IN A NEW ERA 352
Comprehensive
CHAPTER 1
RELIGIOUS RESPONSES 2
The study of world religions 3
Methodologies for Studying Religions by Lee W. Bailey 3
The Sacredness of Nature and Cosmic Religion by Mircea Eliade 8 Dimensions of the Sacred by Ninian Smart 10
Materialistic perspectives on religion 11
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud 11 Religion as the Opium of the People by Karl Marx 13
God is Dead by Friedrich Nietzsche 14
God is Society by Emile Durkheim 14
Ritual, symbol, and myth 16
Mandalas: Deity Unfolding in the World by Carl G. Jung 16
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell 18
Myth and Religion: The Irish Voyage of Bran 21
The Sound of One Hand: Ritual in Zen Buddhism 22
Religious points of view 24
The Oneness of the Divine by Abraham Heschel 24
The New Polytheism by David Miller 25
The Ground of Being by Tarthang Tulku 27
Scientific perspectives on religion 28
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins 28
Deeper than Darwin by John F. Haught 30 Women and the feminine in religion 32
The Spiritual Idea of the "Feminine" by Vijaya Ramaswamy 32
The need for religion today 34
The Lost Dimension in Religion by Paul Tillich 34
Glossary 37
Review Questions 38
Discussion Questions 38
Information Resources 38
CHAPTER 2
INDIGENOUS SACRED WAYS 39
Understanding indigenous sacred ways 40
African Spiritual Tradition by Harvey J. Sindima 40
The Talking Drum: African Sacred Liturgy by Georges Niangoran-Bouah 41
The Theft of Light by the Tsim
Anthology of Living Religions, 3rd Edition
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