The History Of 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 | : 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 | : David G. Robertson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2021-08-12 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1350137715 |
Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it was “essentialised” into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses. This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century. It uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals – practitioners and scholars – at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world. David G. Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation.
| Author | : David Dean Shulman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 0195148169 |
This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.
| Author | : Zhongjian Zhan, Jian Mu |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2020-10-27 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 383821207X |
This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership, providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late, and offering a chance to grasp today’s China. In their influential book Handbook of the History of Religions in China, Zhongjian Mou and Jian Zhang present a panorama of the religions existing in China through time. In their fascinating History, they delineate the emergence and development of Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, and Christianity and explore the roles they played in Chinese society and the interrelations between them. In China, also due to the encompassing Confucian idea of “living together harmoniously while maintaining differences,” religions—including newly arrived ones—came closer together than anywhere else in the world and reached a unique level of peaceful societal coexistence. Despite many frictions and conflicts, communication and reconciliation were indisputably predominant in China throughout history. Buddhism was peacefully introduced into China and, later on, a harmonious, symbiotic syncretism of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism developed—an exemplary process of how a diverse set of different religions can complement each other and contribute to a better life.
| Author | : Michael J. Stewart |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-12-21 |
| Genre | : Religions |
| ISBN | : 9781541259263 |
Get To Know The Different Religions Of The World. Find out what beliefs set people apart from one another. For decades, religion has been the major source of human controversy. Throughout history, it has been a way to distinguish cultural and political beliefs. This has brought us together and torn entire kingdoms apart. The study of religion can greatly impact our understanding of certain places, people and events throughout the ages. History of Religion: An Overview of the most Important People and Events in The World's Religions, Mythologies, & History of the Church focuses on the 6 major world religions that are unique on their own. These are: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism. You will learn about: Egyptian Mythology I Ching History of Jerusalem The Crusades Muhammad The World's Religions The World's Most Destructive Religious Movements and Cults Parody Religions & Some Of The World's Funniest Religions Zoroastrianism Taking a deep dive into different religious tradition will help you gain a better understanding of different cultures and the religious traditions that are passed on from generation to generation. The culture and rituals that religion creates have infused themselves as a way of life for different people all around the world. Whether you are a student majoring in Humanities and Social Sciences, or you simply want to learn more about the history of religion, you won't be disappointed with this enriching book!
| Author | : Jack Meng-Tat Chia |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2020-08-25 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0190090995 |
Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia explores why Buddhist monks migrated from China to Southeast Asia, and how they participated in transregional Buddhist networks across the South China Sea. This book tells the story of three prominent monks Chuk Mor (1913-2002), Yen Pei (1917-1996), and Ashin Jinarakkhita (1923-2002) and examines the connected history of Buddhist communities in China and maritime Southeast Asia in the twentieth century. Monks in Motion is the first book to offer a history of what Chia terms "South China Sea Buddhism," referring to a Buddhism that emerged from a swirl of correspondence networks, forced exiles, voluntary visits, evangelizing missions, institution-building campaigns, and the organizational efforts of countless Chinese and Chinese diasporic Buddhist monks. Drawing on multilingual research conducted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Chia challenges the conventional categories of "Chinese Buddhism" and "Southeast Asian Buddhism" by focusing on the lesser-known--yet no less significant--Chinese Buddhist communities of maritime Southeast Asia. By crossing the artificial spatial frontier between China and Southeast Asia, Monks in Motion breaks new ground, bringing Southeast Asia into the study of Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism into the study of Southeast Asia.
| Author | : Ernst Troeltsch |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 1971-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780664230166 |
In this seminal work, pioneering theologian Ernst Troeltsch raises the question, how can we pass beyond the diversity with which history presents us to norms for our faith and for our judgments about life? He trenchantly probes the issue of how one religion--when viewed historically in the context of other world religions--can be universally and absolutely true. Though many others since have explored the issue of historical relativism and religious truth, few have done so with Troeltsch's determination and incisiveness, and for this he has made a lasting contribution to Christian theology and the philosophy of religion. The questions Troeltsch poses in this book remain utterly significant for the thoughtful Christian today. This reissue of a well-known classic includes a foreword by theological titan James Luther Adams.
| Author | : Elaine M. Fisher |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2017-02-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0520966295 |
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day.
| Author | : Pettazzoni |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2018-11-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004377921 |
Preliminary Material /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Preface /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- The Formation of Monotheism /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- The Truth of Myth /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Myths of Beginnings and Creation-Myths /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- IO and Rangi /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Confession of Sins: An Attempted General Interpretation /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Confession of Sins and the Classics /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Introduction to the History of Greek Religion /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- The Religion of Ancient Thrace /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- The Wheel in the Ritual Symbolism of Some Indo-European Peoples /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Carmenta /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- The Gaulish Three-Faced God on Planetary Vases /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Regnator Omnivm Devs /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- West Slav Paganism /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Sarapis and His “Kerberos” /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Aion--(Kronos)Chronos in Egypt /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- The Monstrous Figure of Time in Mithraism /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- East and West /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- State Religion and Individual Religion in the Religious History of Italy /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- History and Phenomenology in the Science of Religion /Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Index /Raffaele Pettazzoni.
