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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 | |