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Titolo: | Major world religions : from their origins to the present / / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
Disciplina: | 200/.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Religions - History |
Civilization - History | |
Classificazione: | 11.01 |
Altri autori: | RidgeonLloyd V. J |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Major world religions |
ISBN: | 1-134-42934-7 |
1-134-42935-5 | |
1-280-02243-4 | |
0-203-42313-5 | |
0-203-42548-0 | |
9780203423135 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910783876503321 |
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