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History of the World's Religions
ISBN: 9780136149842 | 0136149847
Edition: 12thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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For courses in History of World Religions or Introduction to World Religions. "A History of the World's Religions gives students an accurate look at the religions of the world by including descriptive and interpretive details from the original source materials, and to bridge the interval between the founding of religions and their present state." Refined by over forty years of dialogue and correspondence with religious experts and practitioners around the world, Noss's "A History of the World's Religions "is widely regarded as the hallmark of s... MORE
| Acknowledgements | |
| Some Primal and Bygone Religions | |
| Religion in Prehistoric and Primal Cultures | |
| Beginnings: Religion in Prehistoric Cultures | |
| Basic Terminology: Characterisitics of Religion in Primal Cultures | |
| Case Study: The Dieri of Southeast Australia | |
| Case Study: The BaVenda of South Africa | |
| Case Study: The Cherokees of the Southeastern Woodlands | ... MORE |
| Glossary | |
| Bygone Religions That Have Left Their Mark on the West | |
| Mesopotamia | |
| Greece | |
| Rome | |
| Europe Beyond the Alps | |
| Mesoamerica: The Maya | |
| Glossary | |
| The Religions of South Asia | |
| Early Hinduism: The Passage from Ritual Sacrifice to Mystical Union | |
| The Religion of the Vedic Age | |
| Brahmanism, Caste, and Ceremonial Life | |
| Glossary | |
| Later Hinduism: Religion as the Determinant of Social Behavior | |
| Changes in Brahmanism: The Four Goals and the Three Ways | |
| The Ordered Society: The Way ofWorks | |
| The Reflective Mode: The Way of Knowledge, the Upanishads | |
| The Reflective Models: The Six Acceptable Systems | |
| The Devotional Mode: The Way of Devotion, the Bhagavad Gita | |
| The Devotional Models: Epics, Puranas, and Deities | |
| The Devotional Life | |
| Issues and Problems of the Present | |
| Glossary | |
| Jainism: A Study in Asceticism | |
| Mahaviras Manner of Life | |
| Philosophy and Ethics of Jainism | |
| Mahaviras Followers | |
| Glossary | |
| Buddhism in Its First Phase: Moderation in World Renunciation | |
| Life of the Founder | |
| The Teachings of the Buddha | |
| Glossary | |
| The Religious Development of Buddhism: Diversity in Paths to Nirvana 186 | |
| The Spread of Buddhism in India and Southeast Asia | |
| The Rise of the Mahayana in India | |
| The Spread of Buddhism in Northern Lands | |
| The Help-of-Others Message of the Mahayana | |
| The Mahayana Philosophies of Religion | |
| Mahayana Schools of Thought in China and Japan | |
| Buddhism in Tibet | |
| Buddhism Today | |
| Glossary | |
| Sikhism: A Study in Syncretism | |
| The Life and Work of Nanak | |
| Nanaks Teaching | |
| The Political History of Sikhism | |
| Glossary | |
| The Religions of East Asia | |
| Native Chinese Religion and Daoism | |
| The Basic Elements of Chinese Religion | |
| Daoism as a Philosophy (Dao-jia) | |
| Daoism as Magic and Religion (Dao-jiao) | |
| Glossary | |
| Confucius and Confucianism: A Study in Optimistic Humanism | |
| The Man Confucius | |
| The Teachings of Confucius | |
| The Confucian SchoolIts Rivals and Champions | |
| Neo-Confucianism | |
| The State Cult of Confucius | |
| Religion in China in the Modern Period | |
| Glossary | |
| Shinto: The Native Contribution to Japanese Religion | |
| The Background of Shinto | |
| The Shinto Myth | |
| Shinto in Medieval and More Recent Times | |
| State Shinto to 1945 | |
| Shinto and the Warrior | |
| Shrine Shinto Today | |
| Domestic and Sectarian Shinto | |
| Glossary | |
| The Religions of the Middle East | |
| Zoroastrianism: A Religion Based on Ethical Dualism | |
| Iranian Religion Before Zoroaster | |
| The Life and Teachings of Zoroaster | |
| The Religion of the Later Avesta | |
| The Zoroastrians of the Present Day | |
| Glossary 3<$$$> | |
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