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Note: Each chapter begins with an Overviewand ends withNotes, Key Words, Review Questions,and Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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The Study of Religion | |
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What Is Religion? | |
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How Is It Studied? | |
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Defining Religion | |
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Why Are Humans Religious? | |
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Why Study Religion? | |
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The Perspective of the Studentndash;Commitment and Objectivity | |
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The Ways Religion Is Studied | |
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Interpreting and Explaining Religion | |
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Universal Forms of Religious Experience and Expression | |
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The Sacred and the Holy | |
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The Concept of Sacred Power | |
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The Ambivalence of Sacred Power | |
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The Holy as Mysterium Tremendum and Fascinans | |
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Sacred Space and Sacred Time | |
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Religion as Ultimate Concern | |
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Sacred Symbol, Myth, and Doctrine | |
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Symbolic Communication | |
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Religious Symbols | |
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Metaphor, Parable, and Story | |
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Religious Myths | |
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Models and Doctrines | |
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Sacred Ritual | |
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Ritual Action | |
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Types of Sacred Ritual | |
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Ritual and Sacrifice | |
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Rituals as Sacraments | |
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Sacred Scripture | |
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The Pervasive Role of Sacred Scripture | |
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Using the Term Scripture | |
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Some Distinctive Features of Sacred Scripture | |
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The Authority and Canonicity of Scripture | |
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The Reception and Uses of Scripture | |
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The Interpretation of Scripture | |
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Society and the Sacred: The Social Formations and Transformations of Religion | |
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The Reciprocal Relationship between Religion and Society | |
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Types of Religious Communities | |
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Voluntary Religious Communities | |
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Protest and Change in Voluntary Religious Communities | |
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The Sect | |
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The Cult: New Religious Movements | |
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Universal Components of a Religious Worldview | |
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Deity: Concepts of the Divine and Ultimate Reality | |
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Polytheism and the Worship of Nature | |
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Dualism | |
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Pantheism and Monism | |
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Monotheism | |
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Cosmogony: Origins of the Natural and Social Order | |
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The Practical Basis of Cosmogony | |
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Emergence or Procreation from a Primal Substance or Being | |
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The Sexual Union of a Primal Male and Female | |
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Creation by Conflict and the Ordering of Chaos | |
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Creation by a Divine Craftsman | |
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Creation by Decree or from Nothing | |
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The Rejection of Cosmogonic Speculation | |
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Cosmogony Today | |
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Anthropology: The Human Problem | |
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Modern Views of Our Human Plight | |
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Stoicism | |
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Christianity | |
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Theravada Buddhism | |
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Confucianism | |
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Theodicy: Encountering Evil | |
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The Persistent Demand for Theodicy | |
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Theodicy of "Mystical Participation." | |
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A Future, This-Worldly Theodicy | |
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Other-Worldly Theodicy | |
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Dualism | |
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The Karma-SamsaraTheodicy | |
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Monotheistic Theodicies | |
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Ethics: Patterns of Moral Action | |
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Virtues and Obligations | |
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The Sources and Norms of Moral Authority | |
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Soteriology: Ways and Goals of Salvation and Liberation | |
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Ways of Salvation and Liberation | |
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The Way of Grace through Faith | |
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The Way of Devot | |