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UNINA9910783876503321 |
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Major world religions : from their origins to the present / / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon |
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London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 |
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1-134-42934-7 |
1-134-42935-5 |
1-280-02243-4 |
0-203-42313-5 |
0-203-42548-0 |
9780203423135 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (399 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Religions - History |
Civilization - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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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; |
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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 |
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This book focuses upon those religions that continue to demand the attention of the Western world. |
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UNISA996206900303316 |
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Scandinavian political studies |
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[Oxford], : Blackwell Publishers |
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[Oxford], : Blackwell-Wiley |
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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 |
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