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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Globalization: World Religions in Everyone's Hometown | |
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| Understanding Religious Experience and Its Expressions | |
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| The Great Transition: From Tribal Life to Urban Life and the Emergence of World Religions | |
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| The Great Religious Stories of the World | |
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| Modernization in Global Perspective | |
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| Modern Colonialism, the Socialist Challenge, and the End of Modernity | |
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| Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World | |
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| Conclusion: We Are All Heretics in the Postmodern Situation | |
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| Indigenous Religions | |
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| Overview | |
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| Origins of Homo Religiosus: Prehistory | |
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| Indigenous Religious Traditions: Soul Belief and Afterlife | |
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| Indigenous Religions Today | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Many Stories of Judaism: Sacred and Secular | |
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| Overview | |
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| Encounter with Modernity: Modern Judaisms and the Challenge of Ultra-Orthodoxy | |
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| Premodern Judaism: The Formative Era | |
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| Premodern Judaism: The Classical Era | |
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| Judaism and Modernity | |
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| Judaism and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Christian Diversity and the Road to Modernity | |
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| Overview | |
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| Encounter with Modernity: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy | |
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| Premodern Christianity: The Formative Era | |
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| Premodern Christianity: The Classical Era | |
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| Christianity and Modernity | |
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| Christianity and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Islam: The Many Faces of the Muslim Experience | |
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| Overview | |
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| Encounter with Modernity: The Challenge of Western Colonialism | |
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| Premodern Islam: The Formative Era | |
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| Premodern Islam: The Classical Era | |
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| Islam and Modernity | |
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| Islam and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World | |
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| Islam: Postmodern Challenges | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Hinduism | |
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| Overview | |
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| Encountering Modernity: Hindu Challenges to India as a Secular State | |
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| Premodern Hinduism: The Formative Era | |
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| Premodern Hinduism: The Classical Era (180 BCE-900 CE) | |
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| Premodern Hinduism: The Postclassical Era (900 CE-1500 CE) | |
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| Hinduism and Modernity | |
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| Hinduism and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World | |
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| Hindu Festival Practice | |
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| The Religious Institutions of Contemporary Hinduism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Buddhism: Ways to Nirvana | |
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| Overview | |
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| Encounter with Modernity: Socially Engaged Buddhism | |
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| Premodern Buddhism: The Formative Era | |
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| Premodern Buddhism: The Classical Era | |
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| The Core Doctrines | |
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| Premodern Buddhism: Buddhist Expansion | |
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| Buddhism and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| East Asian Religions: Traditions of Human Cultivation and Natural Harmony | |
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| Overview | |
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| Encounter with Modernity: Postcolonial Confucian Economics | |
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| East Asian Religions in the Premodern Era | |
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| East Asian Religions in the Early Modern Era | |
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| East Asian Religions and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Globalization: From New to New Age Religions | |
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| Overview | |
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| New Religions | |
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| New Age Religions | |
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| East Goes West: Transcendental Meditation | |
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| West Goes East: The Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon and the Aum Shinrikyo Movement | |
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| Religious Postmodernism and Global Ethics | |
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| The Challenge of Postmodern Secular Relativism | |
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| The Future of Religion in an Age of Globalization | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Art Credits | |
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| Index | |