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Introduction to the Second Edition | |
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Human Experience and Religion | |
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Creating Order and Meaning | |
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Shaping Human Experience | |
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Order and Meaning | |
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The Symbolic Process | |
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Cultures and Cosmologies | |
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Experience and Imagination | |
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The Aryans and Vedic Religion | |
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The Haudenosaunee and Longhouse Religion | |
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Resources | |
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Religious Understandings of Life | |
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The Power of Life | |
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Land in Warlpiri Experience | |
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Freedom in Jewish Experience | |
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Sacred Space and Sacred Time | |
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Person, Self, and Experience | |
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Resources | |
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The Study of Religion | |
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Nature, Culture, and Religion | |
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Culture-A Shared Pattern for Living | |
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Studying Religion | |
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Defining Religion | |
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Science and Religion | |
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Symbolic Forms | |
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Resources | |
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Religious Action | |
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Ritual Action | |
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Religious Ritual | |
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Symbolic/Expressive Dimensions of Ritual | |
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Personal and Social Functions of Ritual | |
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Types of Religious Ritual | |
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Summary | |
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Resources | |
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Ethical Action | |
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Religious Ethics | |
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Religion as a Source of Ethics | |
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Norms for Moral Conduct | |
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Norms for Moral Character | |
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Social Ethics | |
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The Relationship between Symbolic and Practical Religious Action | |
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Ritual and Moral Pedagogy | |
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Ritual and Moral Redemption | |
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Ritual and Moral Transformation | |
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Summary | |
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Resources | |
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Religious Language | |
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Talking about the Sacred | |
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Religious Language and Figurative Language: Sides of the Same Coin | |
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Religious Metaphors: Here One Century, Gone the Next | |
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Myth | |
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Prophets Who Challenge the Status Quo | |
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Many Types of Religious Language | |
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Summary | |
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Resources | |
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Scriptures, Canons, and Creeds | |
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Scripture | |
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Why Scripture and Not the Bible? | |
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Reading Religious Literature | |
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Critical Reading for Meaning Inside and Outside a Religious Tradition | |
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The World within the Text | |
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Thinking with Scriptures | |
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Doctrines and Creeds | |
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Summary | |
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Resources | |
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Religious Change | |
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Personal Religious Change | |
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Personal Religious Change as Development | |
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Personal Religious Change as Conversion | |
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Development and Conversion in an Individual Life | |
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Personal Conversion and New Religions | |
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From Personal to Communal Religious Development | |
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Summary | |
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Resources | |
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Communal Religious Change | |
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Renewal and Reform within a Religion | |
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Social Change as a Catalyst for Religious Change | |
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Cultural Contact and Religious Change | |
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Religion as a Catalyst for Social Change | |
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Resistance to Change | |
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Summary | |
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Resources | |
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Religious Authenticity | |
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Alienation | |
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The Religious Legitimation of Cultural Biases | |
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Alienating Images of God | |
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The Tendencies of Religious Authorities to Control | |
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Religious Responses in the Face of Suffering | |
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Personal Sources of Alienation | |
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Responses to Alienation | |
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Cults | |
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Religion Understood as Totally Alienating | |
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The Ambiguity of Religion | |
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Summary | |
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Resources | |
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Reconcilling Religion | |
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Personal Reconciliation within the Community | |
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Conflicting Worldviews | |
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The Confession of Transgressions | |
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Reconciliation between Religious Groups | |
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Reconciliation to Oneself | |
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Buddhism and Inner Peace | |
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The Concept of Reconciliation in Review | |
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Conclusion | |
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Resources | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |