Anatomy of the Sacred : An Introduction to Religion
ISBN: 9780136003809 | 013600380X
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 7/21/2008
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For one-semester, undergraduate courses in Introduction to Religion and Comparative Religion. This comprehensive textintroduces students to the nature and variety of religious phenomena, belief, and practice. It shows the ways religion is studied, a cross-cultural study of the variety of history forms of religious belief and practice, such as deity conceptions at the divine myth, ritual scripture, rites of passage, views of the human problem evil, and the ways and goals of an examination of the challenges faced by religion today.
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| Anatomy of the Sacred: An Introduction to Religion, 6th Edition | |
| The Study of Religion | |
| What is Religion? | |
| Ways of Studying Religion | |
| Universal Forms of Religious Experience and Expression | |
| The Sacred and the Holy | |
| Sacred Symbol, Myth, and Doctrine | |
| Sacred Ritual | |
| Sacred Scripture | |
| Society and the Sacred: The... MORE | |
| Universal Components of a Religious Worldview | |
| Deity: Concepts of the Divine and Ultimate Reality | |
| Cosmogony: Origins of the Natural and Social Order | |
| Views of the Human Problem | |
| Theodicy: Encountering Evil | |
| Ethics: Patterns of Moral Action | |
| Soteriology: Ways and Goals of Salvation and Liberation | |
| The Sacred and The Secular in Modernity | |
| Secularization - New Religious Revitalization Movements - COntemporary Religious Fundamentalism | |
| Contemporary Challenges to Traditional Religion: The Status and the Roles of Women - Relations Between Religion and the State | |
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