A History Of All Religions
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| Author | : David S. Noss |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1341 |
| Release | : 2016-09-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 131550751X |
A History of the World's Religions bridges the interval between the founding of religions and their present state, and gives students an accurate look at the religions of the world by including descriptive and interpretive details from the original source materials. Refined by over forty years of dialogue and correspondence with religious experts and practitioners around the world, A History of the World's Religions is widely regarded as the hallmark of scholarship, fairness, and accuracy in its field. It is also the most thorough yet manageable history of world religion available in a single volume, treating many subjects largely neglected in other texts.
| Author | : Richard Holloway |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2016-08-23 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0300222149 |
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 | : Tim A. Cooke |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1426206984 |
Presented in a time line format, the book offers a survey of world religions. It examines global perspectives on the history of faith in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania, Africa and the Middle East.
| Author | : George Walsh |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2017-09-08 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1351474847 |
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 | : Julien Ries |
| Publisher | : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
The Origins of Religions opens with a look at prehistoric man's first steps on the planet, then moves on to examine the cultic rituals, artistic expression, and expanding mythology that developed throughout the Paleolithic and Neolithic epochs.
| Author | : John C. Super |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2006-08-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134379293 |
In Religion and World History, distinguished authors John C. Super and Briane K. Turley examine the value of religion for interpreting the human experience in the past and present. They explore the elements of religion which best connect it to the cultural and political dynamics that have influenced history. Working within this framework, Super and Turley present three unifying themes: * the relationship between formal and informal religious beliefs, how these change through time, and how they are reflected in different cultures * the relationship between church and state, from theocracies to the repression of religion * the ongoing search for spiritual certainty, and the consequent splintering of core religious beliefs and the development of new ones. One of the few recent books to examine religion’s role in geo-political affairs, its unique approach enables the reader to grasp the many and complex ways in which religion acts upon and reacts to broader global processes.
| Author | : Brent Nongbri |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2013-01-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300154178 |
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.
| Author | : Geoffrey Parrinder |
| Publisher | : Checkmark Books |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 1985-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780816012893 |
Looks at the history and beliefs of ancient and modern religions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
| Author | : Younus Samadzada |
| Publisher | : Fulton Books, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2022-01-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1637101422 |
This book chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such as dance, trance, music, song, and language have played in this evolution. The role that leaders play in the evolution of religion is also discussed. Starting from the primitive religions of hunter-gatherer societies in which religion was not part of any institution, the next stages of human life from the agricultural revolution to the modern religions of today are discussed. Among the modern religions discussed are Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Scientology, and numerous others. The reader is further provided with a unique perspective on the potential good and evil aspects of religion and the very reality of the existence of a God or gods, and the possible downfalls of the religious belief system.
| Author | : Kenneth Shouler |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2010-03-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1440500363 |
An easy-to-use and comprehensive guide that explores the intriguing dogma and rituals, cultural convictions, and often-checkered backgrounds and histories of the world's religions.
