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Introduction: Religion and Religions of the World | |
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Understanding Religion in the Context of Pluralism | |
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Developing a Cross-Cultural Model of Religion: | |
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Religious Needs and Satisfactions | |
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The Structure of Religion | |
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How to Read This Book | |
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Primal Religions and Religions of Antiquity | |
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The Diversity and Vitality of Primal Religions | |
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An Approach to Primal Religions | |
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Australian Aboriginal Religions | |
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North American Religious Traditions | |
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African Religions | |
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Religions of Antiquity | |
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Egyptian Religion | |
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Mesopotamia: Power Conflicts and Order | |
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Zoroastrianism: The Battle between Good and Evil | |
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The Greek Heritage | |
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Roman Society and Religion | |
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Northern European Mythologies | |
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Religions of India | |
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The Earliest Forms of Hinduism | |
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The Indus Civilization | |
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The Religion of the Vedas | |
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Classical Hinduism: The Way of Action | |
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Classical Hinduism: The Way of Knowledge | |
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Classical Hinduism: The Way of Devotion | |
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Modern Hinduism | |
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Jainism and Sikhism | |
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Buddhism | |
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The Rise of Buddhism | |
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The Life of the Buddha | |
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The Teachings of the Buddha: The Dharma | |
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The Early Buddhist Community: The Sangha | |
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Early Buddhism and the "New Society" | |
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The Development of Buddhism in India | |
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Buddhist Expansion and the Development of Sanskrit Culture | |
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The Apogee and Decline of Indian Buddhism | |
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Buddhism as a World Religion | |
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Buddhism in "Greater India" | |
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Buddhism in Central Asia, China, and Japan | |
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Buddhism in Tibet | |
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Buddhism in the Modern Era | |
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Religions of China and Japan | |
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Roots of Religion in China | |
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The Unity of Chinese Religions | |
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China's Early Religious History | |
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The Age of the Hundred Philosophers | |
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Three Visions of Harmony: Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist | |
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Neo-Confucianism: From the Classical Era to Modern Times | |
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China in a Period of Revolutionary Change | |
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Japan's Religions: From Prehistory to Modern Times | |
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The Shinto Substratum of Japanese Religiosity | |
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Religion and Society in Early Japan | |
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The Medieval Period | |
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The Modern Period | |
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Judaism | |
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God, Torah, and Israel: The Beginnings | |
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Hebrew Beginnings (c. 2000-1000 B.C.E.) | |
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Monarchy, Exile, and the Restoration of Judah (c. 1000-200 B.C.E.) | |
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The Foundations of Judaism | |
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From the Hellenistic Age to the Dawn of Modernity: Diaspora | |
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The Hellenistic Age | |
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Developments in Judea | |
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The New Babylonian Diaspora | |
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Rabbinic Judaism: The Religion of Torah | |
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Judaism's Encounter with Islam | |
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Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism | |
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European Communities of the Diaspora | |
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The Varieties of Medieval Judaism | |
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Modern Times: Persecution, Divisions, New Worlds | |
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Christianity | |
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The Formation of the Church | |
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Christian Origins | |
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The Early Church | |
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The Imperial Church | |
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The Vision of Christendom | |
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Early Middle Ages | |
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Late Middle Ages | |
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The Splintering of the Vision | |
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Reformation Movements | |
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The Age of Absolutism | |
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Christianity in the Modern World | |
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Islam | |
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The Beginning: The World of Muhammad | |
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Arabia on the Eve of Islam | |
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Muhammad's Life and Message | |
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The Muslim Community | |
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The Quran and the Five Pillars of Islam | |
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Islam's Classical Period: Religious Law, Theology, and Mysticism | |
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The Early Expansion: Arabia to Spain | |
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Religious Law (Fiqh) | |
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A System of Theology (Kal_m) | |
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The Mystical Path | |
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Shiism, Regional Developments, and the Modern Period | |
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The Shiite Alternatives | |
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The Mughul and Ottoman Empires | |
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Islam and the Modern World | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |