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Preface or Some Ways of Using This Text | |
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Religion and Religious Traditions | |
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Toward a Definition of Religion | |
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Reliance upon a Pivotal Value | |
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Person-in-Community | |
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An Individual and Person-in-Community | |
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Other Values Subordinate to Central Value | |
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Authentic to the Individual | |
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Religious Tradition | |
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Life-Governing Value | |
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Understanding Based on Dialogue | |
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Communication | |
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Religious Traditions | |
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Hinduism | |
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Buddhism | |
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Taoism | |
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Confucianism | |
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Judaism | |
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Christianity | |
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Islam | |
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Summary | |
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Basic Tenets of the Major World Religions | |
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Experiencing Religion | |
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Religious Experience | |
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God's Call, Moses' Response | |
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Gautama's Quest for Nirvana | |
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Sufi Encounters | |
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Saint Teresa's Ecstasy | |
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Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe | |
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Mahatma Gandhi's Religious Journey | |
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Elements of Religious Experience | |
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The Role of Symbols in Religion | |
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The Role of Ritual in Religion | |
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Myth and Religious Insight | |
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Magic: Theory and Practice | |
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Ecstatic Religious Phenomena | |
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Mysticism in Religious Experience | |
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Religion in Artistic Expression | |
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Art as Symbolic Vehicle | |
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Images of Jesus as Christ in the Early Church | |
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Luminous Wholeness in Western European Medieval Architecture | |
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The Divine | |
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Knowledge, Belief, Authority, and Tradition | |
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How Do We Know? What Can We Know? | |
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Interpretation and Verification of Religious Knowledge | |
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General and Special Revelation, Reason and Faith | |
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Authority in Religion | |
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Tradition: Its Meaning and Function | |
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The Anatomy of Faith | |
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Ways of Conceiving the Divine | |
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The Holy | |
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The Divine Expressed in Religious Texts | |
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Conceptual Expressions of the Divine | |
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Spirit | |
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The Self and Religion | |
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Evil: Its Reality and Meaning | |
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Why Suffering? | |
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Concepts of Evil | |
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Institutionalized Forms of Evil | |
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Understanding the Self | |
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The Nature of Humanity | |
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On the Meaning of Person | |
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Views of Being Human, East and West | |
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Freedom and the Self | |
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Human Freedom | |
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Concepts of Christian Choosing: Grace, Predestination, and Accountability | |
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Sin and Guilt | |
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Roles of Shame and Guilt | |
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Guilt and Religious Experience | |
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Judeo-Christian Concepts of Sin | |
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Death and the Self | |
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Attitudes Toward Death | |
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How It May Feel To Die | |
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Death and the Afterlife: Cultural Perspectives | |
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Resurrection and Monotheistic Faith | |
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Salvation and Redemption | |
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Salvation | |
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Eschatology: The Coming Fulfillment | |
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Religion and the Sociocultural Context | |
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The Religious Matrix of Interpersonal Relations | |
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The Individual and the Community | |
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Love and Duty | |
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Act and Motive | |
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Corporate Expressions of Ethical Concerns | |
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Liberation Theology and Justice | |
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Peace or Justice? | |
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Religion and the Social Status of Women | |
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Sexuality and Human Liberation | |
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Poverty and Race | |
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Ethnic Pluralism and Contemporary American Religion | |
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Religious Traditions and Social Stability | |
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Community of Faith | |
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Wholeness of Life in a Simply Structured Society | |
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Wholeness of Life in Classical Greece | |
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Japanese Fondness of Simplicity | |
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Religious Traditions and Social Change | |
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Population Growth and World Hunger | |
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Religion, Humanity, and Technology | |
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Secularization | |
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Characteristics of Modernization | |
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Modernism and Postmodernism: Some Variations | |
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New Religious Movements | |
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Religion and the Natural Order | |
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Human Response to the Natural Process | |
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Humanity and the World | |
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Nature and the Natural | |
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Order and Origins | |
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Religious Views on the Origin of the Universe | |
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Religious Vision and Scientific Method | |
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The Temporal and Eternal | |
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Index of Religious Traditions | |
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Index of Names and Subjects | |