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Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780091735760
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Living Faiths written by Robert Charles Zaehner and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1988 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Living Faiths written by Robert Charles Zaehner and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Living Faiths written by Robert Charles Zaehner and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Living Faiths written by Robert Charles Zaehner and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Concise Encyclopædia of Living Faiths written by Robert Charles Zaehner and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1967 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760707128
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the World's Religions written by Robert Charles Zaehner and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers many world religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Dialectical meterialism, etc.
Author : Roshen Dalal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184753969
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Religions of India written by Roshen Dalal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy guide to every religion practised in India In India, the birthplace of some of the world’s major faiths and home to many more, religion is a way of life, existing as much in temples, mosques, churches and wayside shrines as it does in social laws, cultural practices and the political arena. The Religions of India contains, in a single volume, a comprehensive account of every major faith practised in the country today—Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and the Bahai faith. This meticulously researched work traverses a vast range of topics—from Somnatha Temple and Babri Masjid to Tirthankaras and the Akali Movement; from the Shariat and the Eucharist to Shabuoth and nirvana. It places each religion in its historical context, tracing its evolution from its inception to the present. • Incisive profiles of founders and key patrons, deities, saints, mystics and philosophers • Information on and insights into lesser-known and regional forms of worship, as well as important festivals, customs and rituals • Extensively cross-referenced with suggestions for further reading
Author : Jayne Hoose
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852443989
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Conscience in World Religions written by Jayne Hoose and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscience in World Religions is a unique collection of papers which allows the reader to compare and contrast the origins and development of the concept of conscience within different Christian traditions, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. The first part of the book, based upon extensive research of the Christian debate of conscience, explores the dynamic relation between authority, revelation, and education for both the individual and the community. It provides the reader with an insight into approaches to and interpretations of sources found within Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy. The second part of the text provides an enthralling and scholarly study of the previously relatively unexplored Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist viewpoints on the concept of conscience. This book is a thought-provoking collection for all those interested in exploring the many facets of this most fascinating of subjects.
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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014195504X
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, informative and authoritative, The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions is compiled by a team of leading international scholars, and is the definitive guide to the religious belief systems and practices of the world today. This in-depth survey of active religions has now been fully updated to include modern developments and the most recent scholarship. It explains the sources and history of the world's religions, includes material on the phenomenon of Black African and Asian diaspora religions around the world and explores the role of gender in modern religion.
Author : Adrian Konik
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004178759
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Buddhism and Transgression written by Adrian Konik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Buddhism is to remain relevant to the contemporary era, through providing effective solutions to the proliferating and protean discursive problems encountered by its present-day practitioners, it cannot continue to ignore the role of discourse in the formation of subjectivity. In the interest of problematizing such ignorance, this book explores the potential interface between Foucaultian discourse analysis and the development of an indigenous rationale for the practice of contemporary Western Buddhism, along with the growing significance of such a rationale for traditional Buddhism in an era dominated by disciplinary/bio-power. Through doing so, this book radically re-conceptualizes the role of Buddhism in the world today by linking Buddhist practice with acts of discursive transgression.
Author : Gerald Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136136363
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The Growth of Religious Diversity - Vol 2 written by Gerald Parsons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extremely wide-ranging text with good prospects in the A level market
Author : Davis Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429808763
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book War and Religion in the Secular Age written by Davis Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is religion a factor in initiating interstate armed conflict, and do different religions have different effects? Breaking new ground in political science, this book explores these questions both qualitatively and quantitively, concluding that the answer is yes. Previous studies have focused on conflict within states or interstate aggression with overtly religious motivations; in contrast, Brown shows how religion affects states’ propensities to militarize even disputes that are not religious in nature. Different religions are shown to have different influences on those propensities, and those influences are linked to the war ethics inculcated in those religions. The book analyses and classifies war ethics contained in religious scripture and other religious classics, teachings of religions’ contemporary epistemic communities, and religions’ historical narratives. Using data from the new Religious Characteristics of States dataset project, qualitative studies are combined with empirical measurements of governments’ institutional preferences and populations’ cultures. This book will provide interesting insights to scholars and researchers in international security studies, political science, international law, sociology, and religious studies.
Author : Graham Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135942064
Total Pages : 1941 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition written by Graham Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 1941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
Author : Gerald Parsons
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415083265
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Growth of Religious Diversity: Traditions written by Gerald Parsons and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes consider the significance of religion in post-war Britain, concentrating on the decline of the specifically 'Christian Society' and the emergence of a culturally and religiously plural society.
Author : Gerald Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135088950
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Growth of Religious Diversity - Vol 1 written by Gerald Parsons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set considers the role and significance of religion in post-war Britian, focusing, in particular, upon the closely inter-related themes of the decline of a specifically `Christian Society' and the emergence of a culturally and religiously plural society. Three core questions are examined in depth: to what extent and in what ways has religion remained a significant factor in British culture and society in the period since 1945?, what role does religion play in interpreting and understanding the development of a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society in post-war Britain?, and to what extent has Britain remained (or ceased to be) a `religious society' during this period. Volume 1: Traditions analyses the history and development of the major religious groups present in Britain in the period since 1945. The major religious traditions examined include the traditional Christian churches, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Afro-Caribbean religious groups, New Religious Movements, and the `implicit' religion of the `silent majority' who remain detached from organised religion but are by no means simply secular. Volume 2: Controversies explores some of the challenges, tensions and controversies presented by the emergence of an increasingly religiously plural society in Britain since 1945. In particular, it focuses on the impact of religious pluralism on both the Christian churches and other religious traditions, the relationship between communal and national `identities' and religion, women and religion, and the relationship between religion and changing attitudes to personal - and especially sexual - morality.
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Living Faiths written by Robert Charles Zaehner and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Freiberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019092912X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Considering Comparison written by Oliver Freiberger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative method is an integral part of religious studies. All the technical terms that scholars of religion use on a daily basis, such as ritual, hagiography, shrine, authority, fundamentalism, hybridity, and, of course, religion, are comparative terms. Yet comparison has been subject to criticism, including postcolonialist and postmodernist critiques. Older approaches are said to have used comparison primarily to confirm preconceptions about religion. More recently, comparison has been criticized as an act of abstraction that does injustice to the particular, neglects differences, and establishes a mostly Western power of definition over the rest of the world. In this book, Oliver Freiberger takes a closer look at how comparison works. Revisiting critical debates and examining reflections in other disciplines, including comparative history, sociology, comparative theology, and anthropology, Freiberger proposes a model of comparison that is based on a thorough epistemological analysis and that takes both the scholar's situatedness and his or her agency seriously. Examining numerous examples of comparative studies, Considering Comparison develops a methodological framework for conducting and evaluating such studies. Freiberger suggests a comparative approach - which he calls discourse comparison - that confronts the omnipresent risks of decontextualization, essentialization, and universalization. This book makes a case for comparison, arguing that it is indispensable for a deeper analytical understanding of what we call religion. The book is intended to enrich the practice of both aspiring and seasoned comparativists, stimulate much-needed further discussions about comparative methodology, and encourage more scholars to produce responsible comparative studies.
