Author : Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438110383
Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religions
ISBN : 9781859862186
This text presents an easy-to-use and comprehensive encyclopedia of living faiths.
Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780877790440
Contains 3,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the world's religions; features thirty in-depth discussions of major religions; and includes illustrations and maps.
Author : Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1529 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0761927298
Presents entries A to L of a two-volume encyclopedia discussing religion around the globe, including biographies, concepts and theories, places, social issues, movements, texts, and traditions.
Author : Bruno Becchio
Publisher : Foreign Media Group
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781601360007
Enhanced by more than one thousand full colour illustrations, a concise guide features thousands of references to literature, art, history, famous figures, and philosophy with respect to religion, covering the beliefs, doctrines, practices, teachings, rites of passage, and specific rituals of the world's major religions.
Author : Richard Wolff
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736920070
A concise guide covers the history, beliefs and practices, key leaders, and impact upon the modern world of major world religions, including Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Christianity.
Author : Bron Taylor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1927 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1441122788
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, originally published in 2005, is a landmark work in the burgeoning field of religion and nature. It covers a vast and interdisciplinary range of material, from thinkers to religious traditions and beyond, with clarity and style. Widely praised by reviewers and the recipient of two reference work awards since its publication (see www.religionandnature.com/ern), this new, more affordable version is a must-have book for anyone interested in the manifold and fascinating links between religion and nature, in all their many senses.
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0786488948
This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.
Author : William H. Swatos
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761989561
As the new millennium approaches, the sacred and profane interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, it covers world religions, religious perspectives on political and social issues, and religious leaders and scholars -- present and past -- in the United States and the world. This comprehensive volume is an essential reference for studies in the anthropology, psychology, politics, and sociology of religion. Topics include: abortion, adolescence, African-American religious experience, anthropology of religion, Buddhism, commitment, conversion, definition of religion, ecology movement, Emile Durkheim, ethnicity, fundamentalism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, new religious movements, organization, parish, Talcott Parsons, racism, research methods, Roman Catholicism, sexism, Unification Church, Max Weber, and many others.
Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1593394918
A guide to the religions of the world and to the concepts, movements, people, and events that have shaped them. It includes features such as: entries on religious movements and concepts, historical and legendary figures, divinities, religious sites and ceremonies; images that show sacred places, vestments, rituals, objects, and texts; and more.
