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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 | |