[PDF] The World s Religions

• Author : Ninian Smart
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 1998-06-28
• ISBN : 0521631394

The World's Religions offers a fascinating insight into a wide range of faiths, their history and their followers. In the richly illustrated new edition of this popular book, religions are described through their symbols, rituals, followers, architecture and art. References, statistics, maps and pictures have been updated and added. The text has been thoroughly revised to highlight recent developments, such as the spread of Islam, African-American and Hispanic-American religious experience, and women priests.

• Author : William A. Young
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1995
• ISBN : PSU:000045471117

This text enables introductory-level readers to gain an understanding of the world's religions by discussing their history, stances on contemporary issues, and how they compare and contrast to each other.

• Author : James Norman Dalrymple Anderson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1953
• ISBN : MINN:319510023834574

• Author : Todd M. Johnson,Brian J. Grim
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2013-03-25
• ISBN : 9781118323038

Created by two of the field’s leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief. Offers the first comprehensive overview of the field of international religious demography – detailing what we know about religious adherents around the world, and how we know it Examines religious freedom and diversity, including agnostics and atheists, on a global scale, highlighting trends over the past 100 years

• Author : James Fieser,John Powers
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
• Release Date : 1998
• ISBN : 0070209782

Also issued in two separate volumes under titles: Scriptures of the East and Scriptures of the West.

• Author : John Ferguson
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 1978
• ISBN : UVA:X030120293

• Author : K. L. Seshagiri Rao,Henry O. Thompson
• Publisher : Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
• Release Date : 1994
• ISBN : UVA:X002581900

Contribued articles presented at the conference on the Love of God in the World's Religious which met on October 13-16, 1989 in the UTS campus.

• Author : Jacob Neusner
• Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
• Release Date : 2009-10-07
• ISBN : 9781611640472

The fourth edition of World Religions in America continues its lauded tradition of providing students with reliable and nuanced information about America's religious diversity, while also reflecting new developments and ideas. Each chapter was updated to reflect important changes and events, and current statistics and information. New features include a timeline of key events and people for each tradition, sidebars on major movements or controversies, personal stories from members of various faiths, a theme-based organization of subjects, more subheads, three

• Author : Gwilym Beckerlegge
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release Date : 2001
• ISBN : 0415247497

Gathers together material on six of the world's most influential faiths, with readings drawn from a broad range of historical and contemporary sources.

• Author : Robert S. Ellwood
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release Date : 2008
• ISBN : 9781438110387

Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.

• Author : Christopher R Cotter,David G. Robertson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2016-02-05
• ISBN : 9781317419969

The World Religions Paradigm has been the subject of critique and controversy in Religious Studies for many years. After World Religions provides a rationale for overhauling the World Religions curriculum, as well as a roadmap for doing so. The volume offers concise and practical introductions to cutting-edge Religious Studies method and theory, introducing a wide range of pedagogical situations and innovative solutions. An international team of scholars addresses the challenges presented in their different departmental, institutional, and geographical contexts. Instructors

• Author : Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
• Publisher : Liturgical Press
• Release Date : 2018-10-23
• ISBN : 9780814684474

Synthesizing the thinking of the most prominent scholars, Professor Edmund Chia discusses practically everything that should be known about Christianity’s encounter with other religions in this comprehensive book. Topics include: the invention of the idea of World Religions and World Christianity the Bible and the church’s attitude toward other faiths Vatican II, Asian Christianity, and interfaith dialogue the what, why, when, and how of dialogue the global ecumenical movement theologies of religious pluralism cross-textual hermeneutics comparative theology interfaith

• Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Release Date : 2004-11-26
• ISBN : 9781461638223

Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions addresses the practical relevance of the interconnection of feminism, ecology, and religious theological thought, and will ask questions about the lack of attention to gender issues in both ecological theology and deglobalization theory. The book knits together four concerns: globalization, interfaith ecological theology, ecofeminism, and deglobalization movements and thought. It examines how gender needs to be connected with inter-faith ecological theology and with critical analysis of globalization. It asks how to connect theory and

• Author : Joan Price
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release Date : 2010-02-17
• ISBN : 9780826423542

Price examines religions across the world, offering an insight into each tradition's views of the world, through their scriptural texts and spiritual practices.

• Author : Annie Besant
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1916
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105011680704