Anthology of World Religions

Sacred Texts and Contemporary Perspectives
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-19-761750-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Anthology of World Religions explores the world's religious traditions by combining substantial overviews of their history, beliefs, and practices with selections from their texts and scriptures and commentary by contemporary practitioners and scholars. It covers each major religion's history, teachings, founder, leaders, practices, and the factors that are now challenging and changing it--secularism, modernism, pluralism, science, the status of women, and sectarian or factional conflicts. The introductory chapter reviews various approaches to the study of religion, defines religious terms and concepts, discusses theories of religion, and distinguishes between the insider and outsider perspectives on religious traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vaughn, Lewis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: The Beginning of Understanding

- Modern Religious Studies

- The Challenge of Definition

- Religious Questions and Answers

- Studying Scripture

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Identifying Religions

- The Nature of Religion, Ninian Smart

- Comparative Studies

- Comparing Religions, Will Deming

- The Sacred and the Profane

- The Sacredness of Nature and Cosmic Religion, Mircea Eliade

- Subjective Belief

- Religious Experience: The Root of Religion, William James

- Religion as Human Invention

- Religion is "the Opium of the People", Karl Marx

- The Goddess

- When Got Was a Woman, Merlin Stone

- Belief and Practices

- The Matter of Belief, David Morgan NEW

- Religion, Sarah M. Pike NEW

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 2: Indigenous Religions: North America and Africa

- Indigenous North American Religions

- Indigenous African Religions

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Indigenous North American Religions

- Thunder Rides a Black Horse, Claire R. Farrer

- Basic Call to Consciousness, Iroquois Nation

- Iroquois Myth: The Creation

- Cherokee Myth: How the World Was Made

- Cherokee Myth: Origin of Disease and Medecine

- Sioux Genesis

- Native American Spirituality, Evan T. Prichard

- Sacred Ways of a Lakota, Wallace Black Elk

- The Gift of the Sacred Pipe, Wallace Black Elk

- Misunderstanding Native Americans, Frederick W. Turner

- Indigenous African Religions

- Women in African Traditional Religions, Joseph Akinyele Omoyajowo

- Traditional Religions in Contemporary Africa, Wande Abimbola

- African Traditional Religions: Worldviews and Cosmology, Jacob K. Olupona

- Contemporary Challenges

- Justice Delayed for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, Wendelin Hume NEW

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 3: Hinduism

- Hindu Beliefs

- Hindu Ritual

- Hindu Philosophies

- Hindu Scriptures

- Major Monotheisms

- Challenges to Hinduism

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- Selections from the Rig Veda

- Selections from the Upanishads

- Selections from the Bhagavad-Gita

- Selections from the Crest-Jewel of Discrimination, Advaita Vedanta

- The Path of Devotion: Bhagavata Purana

- Shiva Purana

- The Goddess Durga, David R. Kinsley

- The Spirit of Indian Philosophy, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

- Selections from The Secret Garland

- Practices

- Yoga: Discipline of Freedom, Barbara Stoler Miller

- Chanting the Sacred Syllable Om, Chandogya Upanishad

- Bhakti Yoga, Baghavad Gita

- Hindu Ritual: Cremation, Rig Veda

- Domestic Worship, Vasudha Narayanan

- Darsan: Seeing the Sacred, Diana L. Eck

- Contemporary Challenges

- The Case of Uma Bharati, Katherine K. Young

- Untouchability, Mohandas Gandhi

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 4: Jainism

- Jain History

- Teachings and Practices

- Jain Scriptures

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- Nonviolence, Sutrakritanga

- Wise and Foolish Men, Acaranga Sutra

- Moral Verses, Naladiyar

- There Is No Creator God, Mahapurana

- Be Watchful, Uttaradhyayana Sutra

- Practices

- The Eternal Law, Acaranga Sutra

- Sinning Against the Earth, Acaranga Sutra

- The Five Great Vows, Acaranga Sutra

- Life of a Jain Nun, N. Shanta

- Contemporary Challenges

- Jains Today, Vasudha Narayanan

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 5: Buddhism

- Buddhist Complexities

- The Buddha's Life

- The Buddha's Teachings

- Modern Challenges to Buddhism

- Women and Buddhism

- Social Engages Buddhism

- Buddhist Scriptures

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- The Buddha's First Sermon NEW

- The Awakaned One

- The Five Precepts

- The Enlightenment

- The Recollection of Death, Buddhaghosa

- The heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra

- The Lotus Sutra: A Parable

- Buddha Nature, Peter Harvey

- Guidelines for Studying the Way, Eihei Dogen

- Practices

- A Buddhist-American Monk, Heng Sure

- Meditation, Damien Keown

- No Need for Precepts, Bankei

- The Koan Exercise, D.T. Suzuki

- Rules for Zazen, Master Dogen

- Contemporary Challenges

- Freedom in Exile, The Dalai Lama

- Thich Nhat Hanh on Engaged Buddhist Ethics, Sallie B. King

- Women in Buddhism, Roy C. Amore and Julia Ching

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 6: Sikhism

- Beginnings

- Beliefs

- Sikh Scriptures

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- Hymns of Guru Gobind Singh

- Hymns of Guru Amar Das

- Hymns of Guru Ram Das

- The Death of Guru Nanak

- The Rahit: Code of Conduct

- Selections from the Japii

- Practices

- The Rite of Khalsa Initiation, Hew McLeod

- Devotions: THe Prakaash, Siri Kirpal Kaur Khalsa

- Contemporary Challenges

- Feminine Dimensions of Sikh Faith, Willard G. Oxtoby

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 7: Confucianism

- Life of Confucius

- Confucian Teachings

- The Confucian Canon

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- Selections from The Analects

- Selections from THe Book of Mencius

- Human Neature is Evil, Xunzi

- Confucianism as Religious Humanism, Julia Chung

- The Confucian Way of Being Religious, Tu Wei-Ming

- Practices

- Sacred Space, Jennifer Oldstone-Moore

- Confucian Holy Rite, Herbert Fingarette

- Contemporary Challenges

- The Revival of Confucian Values, Xinzhong Yao

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 8: Daoism

- Teachings

- Practices

- The Daoist Canon

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- Selections from the Daodejing

- Selections from the Zhuangzi

- The Dao of Ecology, Huston Smith

- Practices

- T'ai Chi, Al Chung-liang Huang

- Quiet Sitting with Master Yinshi, Jiang Weiqiao

- Qingjing Jing

- The Lady of Great Mystery

- Contemporary Challenges

- Daoism in the Twenty-First Century, William A. Young

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 9: Shinto

- Beliefs and Practices

- Sacred Writings

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- The Nihongi: THe Kami Create Kapan

- Nihongi: THe Kami of the Sun and Moon

- Kojiki: Kami, the Netherworld, and the Eclipse of the Sun

- Life is Transitory

- Mount Fugi

- Practices

- Rituals, Shrines, and Festivals, Ian Reader

- Contemporary Challenges

- Japanese Religion in Modern Times, Howard W. French

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 10: Zoroastrianism

- Zarathustra and His Teachings 3

- Zoroastrian Scriptures

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- The Zoroastrian Creed

- To Ahura and the Fire

- Hymn to Ahur

- Resurrection and Final Judgment

- Good and Evil

- Fate of the Soul at Death

- Practices

- The Four Main Prayers

- Burial of the Dead

- Zoroastrian Ceremonies, Rustom Masani

- Contemporary Challenges

- Zoroastrianism's Biggest Worry: Membership, Ariane Sherine

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 11: Judaism

- History

- Beliefs

- Scriptures

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- The Creation Store

- The Covenant with Noah

- The Covenant with Abraham

- The Exodus

- The Mosaic Covenant

- The Holiness Code

- The Entry into Canaan

- Psalms of David

- The Babylonian Conquest and Exile

- Mishnah: The Ethics of the Fathers

- Maimonides: Thirteen Principles of the Jewish Faith

- Reform Judaism: The Pittsburgh Platform, 1885

- To Be a Jew, Elie Wiesel

- God in Search of Man, Abaraham Joshua Heschel

- Practices

- Observing the Sabbath, George Robinson

- Yom Kippur, Herman Wouk

- The Seder, George Robinson

- Contemporary Challenges

- Jewish Feminism, Judith Plaskow

- Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Carol Meyers NEW

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 12: Christianity

- History

- Scriptures

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- The Sermon of the Mount

- Healing the Blind and Casting Out Demons

- The Good Samaritan

- Arrest, Trial, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

- The Women at the Tomb

- The Word Made Flesh

- The Ascension and Pentecost

- Paul: Life After Death

- The Gnostic Gospel of Mary

- The Infancy Gospel of Thomas

- Augustine's Confessions

- Orthodox Christianity, Ernst Benz

- The Apostles' Creed

- The Nicene Creed

- PRactices

- Prayer and Fasting

- The Eucharist

- Baptism

- The Didache: Teaching of the Apostles

- Contemporary Challenges

- Women in the New Testament

- Women and Christianity, Linda Woodhead

- The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, Robert P. Jones

- LGBTQ Bias May Be Driving Young Evangelicals from Church, Yonat Shimron

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 13: Islam

- Beginnings

- Practice

- Scriptures

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Teachings

- The Quran, Suras 1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 11, 17, 53, 75, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 104, 107, 443

- Hadith: Jihad, How Divine Revelation Came to the Holy Prophet, Divorce

- Sunni Beliefs (al-Ash'ari)

- Shi'a Beliefs (Ibn Babuya al-Saduq)

- The Sufi Path: Doorkeeper of the Heart

- Al-Ghazali: The Classes of Seekers

- Practices

- The Quran: The Cow (The Five Pillars), The Cow (Laws)

- Hadith: Charity

- Contemporary Challenges

- Reforming Islam, John L. Esposito

- Passages About Women: The Quran, Sura 4

- Women and the Quran: Problematic Verses, Ruth Roded

- Women and the Shari'a, Malise Ruthven

- Tolerating the Beliefs of Others, Michael Cook

- Study Questions

- Further Reading

- Online

- 14: New Religious Movements

- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

- Christian Science

- Baha'i

- Wicca

- Key Terms

- Readings

- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

- Joseph Smith's Introduction to the Book of Mormon

- Christ Appearing in America

- Statement of Beliefs

- Vision and Conversion of Joseph Smith

- Christian Science

- Science and Health, Preface, Mary Baker Eddy

- Science and Health, Recapitulation, Mary Baker Eddy

- Baha'i

- Baha'u'llah and Basic Baha'i Teaching

- Baha'i Laws: Kitab-I-Aqdas

- The Bab on Islam and Christianity

- World Peace

- Wicca

- Drawing Down the Moon (1949)

- Power (1953)

- Study Questions

- Further Readings

- Online

- Credits

- Index