World religions / Ramdas Lamb (Editor)

CONTENTS

UNIT 1 UNDERSTANDING RELIGION
Unit overview
The comparative'' study of religion
Body ritual among the Nacirema, etc.

UNIT 2 ORAL AND INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS
Sun mother wakes the world: Australian aborigine
First Tale
Kalevala: An epic poem that Gave Birth to a Nation, etc.

UNIT 3 INDIA; JAINISM, HINDUISM, AND SIKHISM
Ancient Jewel
The Jain Deities
Seeing the sacred, etc

UNIT 4 BUDDHISM
The beginnings of Buddhism
The marrow of zen
An Essential Commitment, etc.

UNIT 5 RELIGIONS OF CHINA AND JAPAN{ NON-BUDDHIST}
Confucius
Stories from an Illustrated Explanation of the Tract of the most Exalted on Action and Response
Asceticism in early Taoist Religion: Introduction, etc.

UNIT 6 JUDAISM
The sacred space of Judaism
The Politics of Holiness in Jerusalem
Sayings of Rabbi Nachman, etc

UNIT 7 CHRISTIANITY
The changing face of the church
Pluralism and the Catholic University
Raising Christian Children in a Pagan Culture, etc.

UNIT 8 ISLAM
What is the Koran?
In the Beginning There were the Holy Books
The Dome of the Rock: Jerusalem's Epicenter, etc.

UNIT 9 RELIGIONS IN DIALOGUE AND CONFRONTATION
Religion: It sounds like Hate but is It?
The case for 'Yellow Theology,'
Cross Meets Crescent: An Interview with Kenneth Cragg, etc.


UNIT 10 RELIGION FACING THE MODERN WORLD
Religion makes a comeback [Belief to follow)
Oh, Gods!
Doper or Devotee?
Fundamentalism

Includes index: p. 214-221