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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 | |