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| Brief Table of Contents | |
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| Religious Responses | |
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| Indigenous Sacred Ways | |
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| Hinduism | |
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| Jainism | |
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| Buddhism | |
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| Daoism and Confucianism | |
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| Shinto Special Section: Zoroastrianism | |
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| Judaism | |
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| Christianity | |
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| Islam | |
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| Sikhism | |
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| New Religious Movements | |
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| Religion in the Twenty-first Century | |
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| Religious Responses | |
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| Attempts to define religion | |
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| Why are there religions? | |
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| Understandings of Sacred Reality | |
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| Ritual, symbol, and myth | |
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| Absolutist and liberal responses to modernity | |
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| The encounter between science and religion | |
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| Women in religions | |
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| Negative aspects of organized religions | |
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| Lenses for studying religions | |
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| Indigenous Sacred Ways | |
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| Understanding indigenous sacred ways | |
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| Cultural diversity | |
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| The circle of right relationships | |
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| Spiritual specialists | |
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| Group observances | |
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| Globalization | |
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| Development issues | |
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| Hinduism | |
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| Philosophical and metaphysical origins | |
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| Major philosophical systems | |
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| Religious foundations and theistic paths | |
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| The Hindu way of life | |
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| Hinduism in the modern world | |
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| Jainism | |
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| The Tirthankaras and ascetic orders | |
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| Freeing the soul: the ethical pillars | |
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| Spiritual practices | |
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| World Jainism | |
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| Buddhism | |
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| The life and legend of the Buddha | |
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| The Dharma | |
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| Branches of Buddhism | |
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| Buddhism in the West | |
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| Socially engaged Buddhism | |
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| Daoism and Confucianism | |
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| Ancient traditions | |
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| Daoism - the way of nature and immorality | |
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| Confucianism - the practice of the virtue | |
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| Shinto | |
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| The roots of "Shinto" | |
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| Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian influences | |
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| State Shinto | |
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| "Sect Shinto" | |
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| Shinto today | |
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| Zoroastrianism | |
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| Judaism | |
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| A history of the Jewish people | |
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| Torah | |
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| Sacred practices | |
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| Holy days | |
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| Contemporary Judaism | |
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| Christianity | |
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| Historical evidence | |
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| Evidence of the Bible | |
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| The life and teachings of Jesus | |
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| The early Church | |
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| Church administration | |
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| Intellectual revival and monasticism | |
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| Medieval mysticism | |
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| The Protestant Reformation | |
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| The Roman Catholic Reformation | |
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| Liberal trends | |
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| The Second Vatican Council | |
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| The Orthodox world today | |
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| Central beliefs in contemporary Christianity | |
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| Sacred practices | |
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| Contemporary trends | |
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| Islam | |
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| Pre-Islamic Arabia | |
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| The Prophet Muhammad | |
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| The Qur'an | |
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| The central teachings | |
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| The Five Pillars | |
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| Sunni and Shi'a | |
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| Sufism | |
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| The spread of Islam | |
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| Relationships with the West | |
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| Muslim resurgence | |
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| Sikhism | |
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| Guru Nanak | |
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| The succession of Gurus | |
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| Central beliefs | |
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| Sacred practices | |
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| Sikhism today | |
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| New Religious Movements | |
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| Social context for new religious movements | |
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| Charismatic leadership | |
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| Offshoots of older religions | |
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| Combinations of older religions | |
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| Universalism | |
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| Social trends | |
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| Opposition to new religious movements | |
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| Will new religious movements last? | |
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| Religion in the Twenty-first Century | |
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| Globalization | |
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| Secularism | |
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| Religious pluralism | |
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| Religion in politics | |
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| Interfaith movement | |
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| Religion and social issues | |
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| Religion and materialism | |
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| Religion and the future of humanity | |