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Brief Table of Contents | |
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Full Table of Contents | |
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Religious Responses | |
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Indigenous Sacred Ways | |
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Hinduism | |
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Jainism | |
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Buddhism | |
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Daoism and Confucianism | |
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Shinto Special Section: Zoroastrianism | |
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Judaism | |
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Christianity | |
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Islam | |
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Sikhism | |
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New Religious Movements | |
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Religion in the Twenty-first Century | |
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Full Table Of Contents: | |
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Religious Responses | |
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Attempts to define religion | |
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Why are there religions? | |
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Understandings of Sacred Reality | |
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Ritual, symbol, and myth | |
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Absolutist and liberal responses to modernity | |
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The encounter between science and religion | |
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Women in religions | |
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Negative aspects of organized religions | |
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Lenses for studying religions | |
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Indigenous Sacred Ways | |
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Understanding indigenous sacred ways | |
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Cultural diversity | |
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The circle of right relationships | |
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Spiritual specialists | |
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Group observances | |
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Globalization | |
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Development issues | |
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Hinduism | |
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Philosophical and metaphysical origins | |
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Major philosophical systems | |
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Religious foundations and theistic paths | |
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The Hindu way of life | |
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Hinduism in the modern world | |
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Jainism | |
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The Tirthankaras and ascetic orders | |
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Freeing the soul: the ethical pillars | |
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Spiritual practices | |
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World Jainism | |
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Buddhism | |
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The life and legend of the Buddha | |
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The Dharma | |
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Branches of Buddhism | |
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Buddhism in the West | |
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Socially engaged Buddhism | |
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Daoism and Confucianism | |
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Ancient traditions | |
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Daoism - the way of nature and immorality | |
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Confucianism - the practice of the virtue | |
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Shinto | |
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The roots of "Shinto" | |
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Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian influences | |
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State Shinto | |
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"Sect Shinto" | |
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Shinto today | |
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Zoroastrianism | |
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Judaism | |
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A history of the Jewish people | |
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Torah | |
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Sacred practices | |
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Holy days | |
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Contemporary Judaism | |
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Christianity | |
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Historical evidence | |
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Evidence of the Bible | |
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The life and teachings of Jesus | |
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The early Church | |
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Church administration | |
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Intellectual revival and monasticism | |
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Medieval mysticism | |
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The Protestant Reformation | |
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The Roman Catholic Reformation | |
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Liberal trends | |
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The Second Vatican Council | |
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The Orthodox world today | |
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Central beliefs in contemporary Christianity | |
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Sacred practices | |
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Contemporary trends | |
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Islam | |
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Pre-Islamic Arabia | |
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The Prophet Muhammad | |
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The Qur'an | |
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The central teachings | |
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The Five Pillars | |
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Sunni and Shi'a | |
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Sufism | |
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The spread of Islam | |
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Relationships with the West | |
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Muslim resurgence | |
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Sikhism | |
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Guru Nanak | |
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The succession of Gurus | |
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Central beliefs | |
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Sacred practices | |
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Sikhism today | |
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New Religious Movements | |
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Social context for new religious movements | |
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Charismatic leadership | |
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Offshoots of older religions | |
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Combinations of older religions | |
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Universalism | |
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Social trends | |
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Opposition to new religious movements | |
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Will new religious movements last? | |
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Religion in the Twenty-first Century | |
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Globalization | |
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Secularism | |
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Religious pluralism | |
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Religion in politics | |
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Interfaith movement | |
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Religion and social issues | |
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Religion and materialism | |
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Religion and the future of humanity | |