1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783876503321

Titolo

Major world religions : from their origins to the present / / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-42934-7

1-134-42935-5

1-280-02243-4

0-203-42313-5

0-203-42548-0

9780203423135

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Classificazione

11.01

Altri autori (Persone)

RidgeonLloyd V. J

Disciplina

200/.9

Soggetti

Religions - History

Civilization - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: STUDYING RELIGION; HINDUISM; In what sense is Hinduism a religion?; Hinduism in history; The Harappan period; The period of the north Indian empires; The period of regional kingdoms; The period of Muslim rule; The period of British rule; Independence; Karma, rebirth and cyclic time; Karma and rebirth; Theodicy; Karma and other determinants of destiny; Cyclic time; Karma and cosmic time in the modern world; Dharma: norms of conduct; The literature of dharma; Differentiation by gender; Differentiation by caste

Differentiation by stage of lifeDifferentiation by age of the world; The gods and God; Patterns of worship and its objects; The divine feminine; Local deities and pan-Hindu deities; Avataras and saints; Hindu worship and theology in the modern world; BUDDHISM; Pragmatism; The Four Noble Truths; The sangha; The Abhidharma; The emergence of Mahayana Buddhism; The Bodhisattva; Emptiness (sunyata); The Yogacara; The Tathagata-garbha; From India to China; Translation; Sudden enlightenment; Philosophization and simplification; Hua-yen;



Pure-Land Buddhism; Pure-Land Buddhism in Japan; Zen

Transcendentalism againJUDAISM; Reliable and unreliable sources of knowledge; 'Judaism is not a Christian heresy'; The roots of Judaism; The historical beginnings of Rabbinic Judaism; The religious principles of Rabbinic Judaism; The Mishnah and Tosefta; Some parallels with Christianity; The medieval flowering of Judaism; The Talmuds; The commentaries and grammars; Philosophy and ethics; Zohar and kabbalah; Messianism; Sabbatai Sevi; Jewish Christians, Jews for Jesus and Messianic Judaism; Towards modernity: Hasidism and the Haskalah; The Hasidic movement; The Haskalah

Reform, Orthodox and Conservative JudaismAnti-Semitism and the Holocaust; The Holocaust; Zionism and the land of Israel; Eretz Yisrael; CHRISTIANITY; Key texts: the formation of the biblical canon; Theological 'canon'?; The Church and the world: a variety of approaches; The early Christian Church; Constantine: first Christian emperor; East and West: the first Christian centuries; The Christian Church in the Western world: the Protestant Reformation; The Christian Church: communities of resistance and renewal; Western Christianity and the challenges of the modern world

The challenge of Enlightenment philosophyChallenges of secularism, pluralism and postmodernism; The challenge of evil: the Holocaust; The challenge of feminism; The Church beyond Europe; India: the Church of St Thomas; Africa: the Ethiopian Church; The epic tale of Christian missionaries; The Church in North America; ISLAM; The testament of faith (shahada); ' and Muhammad is his messenger.'; Prayer (salat); Sufism; Fasting (sawm); The Qur'an; The Qur'an as a text; Limits of interpretation; The alms tax (zakat); Islamic law; Pilgrimage (hajj); The hajj rites; Pluralism

Jihad: Islam and the state

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses upon those religions that continue to demand the attention of the Western world.



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Record Nr.

UNISA996206900303316

Titolo

Scandinavian political studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Oxford], : Blackwell Publishers

[Oxford], : Blackwell-Wiley

ISSN

1467-9477

Disciplina

320.948

Soggetti

Politics and government

Overheidsbeleid

Élection

Politique publique

Science politique

Système politique

Yearbooks

Periodicals.

Yearbooks.

Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme)

Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)

Scandinavia Politics and government Periodicals

Scandinavie Politique et gouvernement Périodiques

Scandinavia

Scandinavie

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed