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Anatomy of the Sacred : An Introduction to Religion

ISBN: 9780137442690 | 0137442696
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 12/1/1997

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Table of Contents
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Prefacexiii
Part I THE STUDY OF RELIGION1(50)
Chapter 1 What Is Religion?
3(20)
Overview
3(1)
Defining Religion
3(8)
Why Are Humans Religious?
11(2)
Why Study Religion?
13(3)
The Perspective of the Student--Commitment and Objectivity
16(5)
Notes
21(1)
Review Questions
21(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
22(1)
Chapter 2 Ways of Studying Religion
23(28)
Overview
23(1)
Theology and Religious Studies
23(2)
Literary Criticism
25(5)
Textual Criticism
25(3)
Documentary or Source Criticism
28(1)
Form Criticism
29(1)
Redaction Criticism
29(1)
Reader Response Criticism
29(1)
Historiography
30(2)
Anthropology
32(2)
Sociology
34(1)
Psychology
35(2)
Philosophy
37(2)
Phenomenology
39(2)
Interpreting and Explaining Religion
41(5)
Notes
46(1)
Review Questions
47(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
47(4)
Part II UNIVERSAL FORMS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND EXPRESSION51(138)
Chapter 3 The Sacred and The Holy
52(19)
Overview
52(1)
The Concept of Sacred Power
53(1)
The Ambivalence of Sacred Power
53(1)
The Holy as Mysterium Tremendum and Fascinans
54(4)
Sacred Space and Sacred Time
58(9)
The Buddhist Stupa and Pagoda as Sacred Space
61(3)
Mount Zion as Sacred Space
64(3)
Religion as Ultimate Concern
67(1)
Notes
68(1)
Review Questions
69(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
69(2)
Chapter 4 Sacred Symbol, Myth, and Doctrine
71(24)
Overview
71(1)
Symbolic Communication
72(2)
Religious Symbols
74(4)
Metaphor, Parable, and Story
78(10)
Religious Myth
81(3)
Functionalist Theory
84(1)
The Psychotherapeutic Theory of Carl Jung
85(2)
Eliade's Phenomenological Interpretation
87(1)
Models and Doctrines
88(3)
Notes
91(1)
Review Questions
92(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
92(3)
Chapter 5 Sacred Ritual
95(28)
Overview
95(1)
Ritual Action
96(1)
Approaches to the Study of Ritual
97(3)
Types of Sacred Ritual
100(13)
Life-Cycles Rites
101(6)
Life-Crisis Rites: A Healing Ritual
107(1)
Calendar or Seasonal Rituals
108(5)
Ritual and Sacrifice
113(4)
Rituals as Sacraments
117(2)
Notes
119(1)
Review Questions
120(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
120(3)
Chapter 6 Sacred Scripture
123(36)
Overview
123(1)
The Pervasive Role of Sacred Scripture
124(3)
Using the Term "Scripture"
127(1)
Some Distinctive Features of Scripture
128(3)
The Authority and Canonicity of Scripture
131(4)
The Reception and Uses of Scripture
135(7)
The Interpretation of Scripture
142(14)
Buddhist Interpretation
143(6)
Christian Biblical Interpretation
149(7)
Notes
156(1)
Review Questions
157(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
158(1)
Chapter 7 Society and the Sacred: Social Formations of Religion
159(30)
Overview
159(1)
The Reciprocal Relationship between Religion and Society
160(2)
Types of Religious Communities
162(7)
Natural Religious Communities
162(3)
Voluntary Religious Communities
165(4)
Protest and Change in Voluntary Religious Communities
169(4)
Reform from Within the Church
170(3)
Seccession from the Church-Type Community
173(1)
The Sect
173(4)
The Cult: New Religious Movements
177(8)
Transcendental Meditation
179(2)
The Unification Church--the "Moonies"
181(4)
Notes
185(1)
Review Questions
186(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
186(3)
PART III DIMENSIONS OF A RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEW: CLASSIC FORMS OF BELIEF AND PRACTICE189(222)
Chapter 8 Deity: Concepts of the Divine and Ultimate Reality
191(32)
Overview
191(1)
Polytheism and the Worship of Nature
192(10)
Sky Gods
194(2)
Mother Goddesses
196(6)
Dualism
202(5)
Chinese Yin-Yang
203(1)
Dualism of Cosmic Struggle
204(3)
Pantheism and Monism
207(4)
Monotheism
211(8)
Notes
219(1)
Review Questions
220(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
221(2)
Chapter 9 Cosmogony: Images of the Natural and Social Order
223(28)
Overview
223(1)
The Practical Basis of Cosmogony
224(2)
Emergence or Procreation from a Primal Substance or Being
226(1)
The Sexual Union of a Primal Male and Female
227(4)
Creation by Conflict and the Ordering of Chaos
231(4)
Creation by a Divine Craftsman
235(3)
Creation by Decree or from Nothing
238(4)
The Rejection of Cosmogonic Speculation
242(2)
Cosmogony Today
244(3)
Notes
247(1)
Review Questions
248(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
249(2)
Chapter 10 Anthropology: The Human Problem
251(24)
Overview
251(1)
Modern Views of Our Human Plight
252(2)
Stoicism
254(3)
Christianity
257(5)
Theravada Buddhism
262(5)
Confucianism
267(5)
Notes
272(1)
Review Questions
273(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
274(1)
Chapter 11 Theodicy: Encountering Evil
275(30)
Overview
275(2)
The Persistent Demand for Theodicy
277(1)
Theodicy of "Mystic Participation"
278(1)
A Future, This-Worldly Theodicy
279(5)
Other-Worldly Theodicy
284(1)
Dualism
285(1)
The Karma-Samsara Theodicy
286(3)
Monotheistic Theodicies
289(12)
Suffering as Recompense for Sin
290(1)
Suffering as a Test and as a Necessary Condition of "Soul-Making"
291(3)
A Theodicy of Submission: The Mystery of God's Sovereignty
294(4)
Process Theodicy
298(1)
A Theodicy of Protest
299(2)
Notes
301(1)
Review Questions
302(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
302(3)
Chapter 12 Ethics: Patterns of Moral Action
305(44)
Overview
305(1)
Virtues and Obligations
306(4)
The Sources and Norms of Moral Authority
310(26)
Cosmic or Natural Law
310(6)
Charismatic Leaders
316(8)
An Ethics of Divine Command
324(12)
Ethical Attitudes Toward the World
336(8)
The World-Accepting Response
336(1)
The World-Denying Response
337(3)
The World-Transforming Response
340(4)
Notes
344(1)
Review Questions
345(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
346(3)
Chapter 13 Soteriology: Ways of Salvation and Liberation
349(32)
Overview
349(1)
The Way of Grace through Faith
350(7)
Martin Luther
351(3)
Shinran
354(3)
The Way of Devotion
357(4)
The Way of Action and Obligation
361(11)
Hinduism
362(2)
Islam
364(5)
Judaism
369(3)
The Way of Meditation and Insight
372(5)
The Yoga Techniques of Patanjali
372(3)
Theravada Buddhism
375(2)
Notes
377(1)
Review Questions
378(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
379(2)
Chapter 14 Eschatology: Goals of Liberation and Salvation
381(30)
Overview
381(1)
Psychic Wholeness and a Healthy Social Order
382(4)
A Messianic, or Utopian, Age
386(8)
Ancient Israel's Messianic Hope
387(4)
Chinese Marxism
391(3)
Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life
394(9)
Immortality in Ancient Egypt and Greece
395(2)
Postbiblical Judaism and Christianity
397(6)
Samadhi and Nirvana
403(4)
Hindu Samadhi
403(2)
Buddhist Nirvana
405(2)
Notes
407(1)
Review Questions
408(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
409(2)
PART IV THE SACRED AND MODERNITY: THE FUTURE OF RELIGION411(32)
Chapter 15 Secularization, Pluralism, and the Future of Religion
413(30)
Overview
413(1)
The Sources of Secularization
414(2)
The Meanings of Secularization
416(3)
Religious Pluralism, Dialogue, and the Relations between the Religions
419(3)
Exclusivism
422(2)
Inclusivism and Synthesis
424(1)
Varieties of Pluralism
425(10)
Toynbee and Troeltsch
426(1)
Wilfred Cantwell Smith
427(3)
John Hick
430(5)
Conclusion
435(2)
Notes
437(2)
Review Questions
439(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
440(3)
Glossary443(10)
Index453

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