Encyclopedia of Global Religion

Encyclopedia of Global Religion
Author: Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1529
Release: 2012
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0761927298

Presents entries A to L of a two-volume encyclopedia discussing religion around the globe, including biographies, concepts and theories, places, social issues, movements, texts, and traditions.

Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Encyclopedia of Hinduism
Author: Denise Cush
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1129
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 113518979X

Covering all aspects of Hinduism, this encyclopedia includes more ethnographic and contemporary material in contrast to the exclusively textual and historical approach of earlier works.

Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy

Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy
Author: Dr Brian Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 846
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134960573

The Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy is a unique one-volume reference work which makes a broad range of richly varied philosophical, ethical and theological traditions accessible to a wide audience. The Companion is divided into six sections covering the main traditions within Asian thought: Persian; Indian; Buddhist; Chinese; Japanese; and Islamic philosophy. Each section contains a collection of chapters which provide comprehensive coverage of the origins of the tradition, its approaches to, for example, logic and languages, and to questions of morals and society. The chapters also contain useful histories of the lives of the key influential thinkers, as well as a thorough analysis of the current trends.

Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development

Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development
Author: Elizabeth M. Dowling
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761928839

Focuses on the developmental process of religion and spirituality across the human life span.This encyclopedia joins a recent trend in research and scholarship aimed at better understanding the similarities and differences between world religions and spiritualities, between expressions of the divine and between experiences of the transcendent.

Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion

Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion
Author: Sonia Sikka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000194647

With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion. It contains chapters by experts on Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, Hindu and Jain philosophies, as well as ancient Greek philosophy and recent contemplative and spiritual movements. The volume also problematizes the notion of a Western philosophical canon distinguished by rationality in contrast to a religious Eastern "other". These original essays creatively lay the groundwork needed to rethink dominant historical and conceptual categories from a wider perspective to arrive at a deeper, more plural and global understanding of the diverse nature of both philosophy and religion. The volume will be of keen interest to scholars and students in the Philosophy of Religion, Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religious Studies.