The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Living Faiths
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780091735760
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780091735760
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Religions
ISBN :
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Religions
ISBN : 9780760707128
Covers many world religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Dialectical meterialism, etc.
Author : Jeaneane D. Fowler
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1836242379
An introduction to the world religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism. Emphasis is placed on the living religion and the whole work is designed as a first-level introduction for those who have little or no previous knowledge of these religions.
Author : John R. Hinnells
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 014195504X
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 : Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Religions
ISBN :
Author : Roshen Dalal
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8184753969
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
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Conscience
ISBN : 9780852443989
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.
Author : Adrian Konik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004178759
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 : Gavin D'Costa
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567087300
One of the most discussed topics of our time is Christianity's relation to other religions. In this important new book, one of Britain's leading contemporary theologians develops a sharp and penetrating critique of the pluralist position. In the tradition of Alasdair MacIntyre and John Milbank, D'Costa shows that too often it masks a secularizing agenda, traceable to the worst apects of Enlightenment modernity. Even by its own criteria, pluralism does not succeed. D'Costa demonstrates this by exploring the 'meeting of the religions' in its leading exponents from Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism. He discovers the influence of Western modernist thought or else a veiled exclusivism not only in Hick, Knitter, Cohn-Sherbok and Panikkar, but even in Radhakrishnan and the Dalai Lama. He then goes on to establish an alternative Trinitarian approach to interreligious prayer and tolerance, drawing on recent discussions of other religions as 'vehicles of salvation'. The final section of the book represents the first major systematic theological study of interfaith prayer.