World religions /
Annual editions world religions
Ramdas Lamb (Editor)
- Guilford, Conn. : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, c2003
- xvi, 223 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Annual editions .
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 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