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Author: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780395623640 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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Introduces the history of religious belief and the practice of religion in the world today, illuminating the differences that make each religious group unique and the fundamental beliefs that all groups share.
Author: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780395623640 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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Introduces the history of religious belief and the practice of religion in the world today, illuminating the differences that make each religious group unique and the fundamental beliefs that all groups share.
Author: Jack Miles Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324002794 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 128
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A brief, beautiful invitation to the study of religion from a Pulitzer Prize winner. How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity—a religion inextricably bound to Western thought—Jack Miles reveals how the West’s “common sense” understanding of religion emerged and then changed as insular Europe discovered the rest of the world. In a moving postscript, he shows how this very story continues today in the hearts of individual religious or irreligious men and women.
Author: Betsy Maestro Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780613224499 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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For the five billion people who inhabit the earth, religion is an important part of culture and identity. Through detailed illustrations and descriptions, this book shows that faiths around the globe are as diverse today as the people who practice them.
Author: John Hawkins Publisher: Arcturus Publishing ISBN: 1784287369 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 356
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This book traces the history of the world's great religions from their foundation to the present day. Their development is shown in interesting visuals - such as maps and photographs - as well as informative yet concise text. Also included are short biographies of major figures, statistics, calendars of festivals and timelines. The religions included are: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.
Author: Karen Armstrong Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1446468666 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 562
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The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable prejudice. In this fascinating, extensive and original account of the evolution of belief, Karen Armstrong examines Western society's unerring fidelity to this idea of One God and the many conflicting convictions it engenders. A controversial, extraordinary story of worship and war, A History of God confronts the most fundamental fact - or fiction - of our lives.
Author: Alberdina Houtman Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004334815 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 498
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In this volume, the editors have brought together a rich multidisciplinary collection of papers on the incorporation and adaptation of existing stories in a new context. It presents a vast array of research in mutual interaction between ancient myths, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and modern secular culture.
Author: Richard Holloway Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300208839 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 253
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For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion--from the dawn of religious belief to the twenty-first century--with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those with faith and those without, and especially for young readers, he encourages curiosity and tolerance, accentuates nuance and mystery, and calmly restores a sense of the value of faith. Ranging far beyond the major world religions of Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism, Holloway also examines where religious belief comes from, the search for meaning throughout history, today's fascinations with Scientology and creationism, religiously motivated violence, hostilities between religious people and secularists, and more. Holloway proves an empathic yet discerning guide to the enduring significance of faith and its power from ancient times to our own.
Author: George Walsh Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351474855 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 204
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This comprehensive survey of religion and its profound effects on history provides a historical context for in-depth analysis of theological, social, and political themes in which religion plays a major role. George Walsh first traces the rise and impact of primitive religions. He looks at Indian traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism and analyzes the Semitic tradition of Judaism and Christianity and the evolving conception of a personal God. He discusses the history and chief doctrines of Islam as well, with its fundamental respect for desert tribal values and its emphasis on both the authority of God and the brotherhood of believers. Walsh then compares Judaism and Christianity. He sees Judaism as marked by a profound ambivalence between the values of tribal, nomadic desert life and the values of urban civilization, individualism, and collectivism. Judaism is "this-worldly," but the Christian worldview is "other-wordly." Walsh closes with a timely discussion of the ethical, political, and economic teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, focusing specifically on their differing attitudes toward sex, reproduction, and marriage; their basic views of mind and body; and man's relation to God.
Author: Marietta D. Moskin Publisher: Atheneum Books ISBN: 9780689307195 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 142
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Explains how and why different religions came about and what they provided their followers. Also discusses certain elements such as holy objects, religious laws, and the priesthood common to all faiths.
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