| Description | | This condensed version of the two-volume introduction covers the major world religions, focusing on six areas: the origins of the movement; the crystallization of its teachings; its major divisions in regional and historical perspective, the practice of adherents and of its religious specialists; its influences on society, literature, the arts; and the challenges of intellectual, social, and
technological change to the tradition. |
Readership: University and college students of one-semester introductory religion courses at Canadian and American Universities.
| Contents |
Introduction
,
Alan Segal
1.
Indigenous Religious Traditions
,
Robert M. Baum
2.
The Jewish Tradition
,
Alan Segal
3.
The Christian Tradition
,
Alan Segal
4.
The Islamic Tradition
,
Amir Hussain
5.
The Hindu Tradition
,
Vasu Narayanan
6.
The Sikh Tradition
,
Vasu Narayanan
7.
The Jain Tradition
,
Vasu Narayanan
8.
The Buddhist Tradition
,
Roy Amore
9.
Chinese Religions: Confucianism and Daoism
,
Roy Amore
10.
Korean and Japanese Religions
,
Roy Amore
11.
Conclusion: The Nature of Religion
,
Alan Segal
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Willard G. Oxtoby, Professor, University of Toronto (Emeritus) and
Alan F. Segal, Professor of Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University
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