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Author : Duncan S. Ferguson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441187376
Introduction to the spiritual pathways of the major world religions, exploring the core beliefs, values and practices of each tradition.
Author : Duncan Sheldon Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religions
ISBN : 1472549007
This book is an insightful guide to the diverse ways that religious faith is practiced and spirituality is understood. Discussing contemporary issues such as post-modernism and the emergence of a "new paradigm," the new realities of geopolitics, globalization and global warming, this book explores the importance of religion in people's lives to provide direction in the society today. This book demonstrates the common quest among the world religions for a deeper and more profound spirituality. Describing the spiritual pathways of the various world religions, it assesses the ways that the beliefs, values and practices of these traditions can be life-giving, leading to personal and social responsibility and transformation, but also sometimes harmful and divisive, even used for dangerous purposes. --From publisher's description.
Author : Michael Lees
Publisher : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Religions
ISBN : 1792438206
Author : Wayne Teasdale
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781577313168
Drawing on experience as an interreligious monk, Brother Wayne Teasdale reveals the power of spirituality and its practical elements. He combines a profound Christian faith with an intimate understanding of ancient religious traditions.
Author : Joel Beversluis
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781577313328
Now in its third edition, this is the most comprehensive work available on the rich variety of paths available to today's spiritual seekers. More than an academic reference, it explores how religions can collaborate to help the world. Essays exploring the realm of building an interfaith community add to the book's detailed portraits of the major religious traditions. The Sourcebook also contains essays on spiritual practices as diverse as theosophy, wicca, and indigenous religions. This revised edition of the Sourcebook offers an unparalleled look at where spirituality is headed in the coming millennium.
Author : Xavier William
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595377701
Humans tend to think and react in predetermined ways to trigger words, trigger situations and rituals, though the trigger and the reaction may have no apparent or logical interrelationships whatsoever. Seeing through such conditioned responses is the aim and purpose of this work. Thanks to our long gestation period, human beings are the most conditioned of animals. Though conditioning is very useful in most situations-for example, in learning how to dress-some conditioning, like racism, warps our minds and leads to avoidable conflicts and conflagrations. Author Xavier William believes that this distorted or warped conditioning is evident in many aspects of ordinary life, including: · Economics and politics · Ethics, morals and values · Religions and Superstitions · Traditions and taboos · Alternate medicines · Environmental issues · Sex and family relationships World Religions, True Beliefs And New Age Spirituality seeks to decondition and dewarp our minds from harmful doctrines, dogmas, and Parental and ethnic conditioning. In so doing, William argues, that violence and bloodshed can be significantly reduced or even eradicated. By employing clear-think and self-talk techniques, human beings can steer clear off the ruts of habitual or rhythmic thinking. With the rare insights in World Religions, True Beliefs And New Age Spirituality, people from seemingly incompatible ethnic backgrounds can build win-win relationships and a better world for all.
Author : Bob Larson
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 084236417X
In this indispensable reference tool for parents, students, and pastors alike, Larson analyzes dozens of world religions and spiritual movements from Islam to UFOs, New Age movements to witchcraft. This volume helps address tough questions from a biblical perspective.
Author : David Wayne Machacek,Melissa M. Wilcox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781851095322
Exploring one of the most controversial topics in contemporary theology, this scholarly volume reveals what the world's great faiths—East and West—preach about sexuality, with a special emphasis on American religion. What do the world's most important religious texts have to say about one of humanity's favorite activities? Editors David W. Machacek and Melissa M. Wilcox have brought together top scholars in the field of religious studies to ask and answer these critical questions. Carefully researched, elegantly written, and respectfully presented, Sexuality and the World's Religions explores the intersection of the spiritual and the carnal in Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and African and Native American spiritual traditions. A separate section explores critical religious and sexual topics in American society, including the role of spirituality in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities; the role of sex in the modern witchcraft community; and the ever thorny problem of religion and sexual liberty. Reconciling sexuality and spirituality in every human soul is one of religion's most important tasks. Students and other readers will find this timely and comprehensive volume of interest in exploring these issues.
Author : Nancy Clemmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1594711267
Expands students' understanding of their own religious history and practice by examining other religions of the world. Each religion is introduced with a brief history, and explored through each religion's scripture or major writings, beliefs and practices, and sacred spaces and times.
Author : Timothy A. Sisemore,Joshua J. Knabb
Publisher : Templeton Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1599475952
This compendium of introductory essays invites scholars and clinicians to better understand people of various faiths from around the world. It is intended to correct the tendency among scientists to study religious behavior without accounting for its human dimension. For example: a psychologist describes a religious ceremony in a certain community as a "sociological phenomenon." Such a technical description is likely to strike members of that community as an attempt by science to explain away their beliefs. This is counterproductive. In order to work effectively and empathetically with people of faith, psychologists should seek an intimate knowledge of how religion operates in the hearts and minds of living, breathing human beings. With this goal in mind, editors Timothy Sisemore and Joshua Knabb have made one of the world’s major religions the subject of a separate chapter. In addition, they have arranged for each chapter to be written by a psychologist who practices—or is culturally connected with—that religion. This marks the book’s unique contribution to the field: it is the product of people who have lived the world’s religions, not merely studied them. By taking such a respectful approach, the book promotes an appreciation for the ways that religious belief animates, inspires, and instructs its adherents. Moreover, the indigenous point-of-view of these essays will help scholars identify their own biases when researching religious groups, allowing them to produce more accurate and holistic analyses. Psychologists understand that religion and spirituality provide meaning and purpose to billions of people around the globe. But the actual experience of these beliefs eludes the grasp of the reductionistic methods of science. With this resource at their side, psychologists in academic and clinical settings will be equipped to understand religious experience from the bottom-up, and honor the beliefs and practices of the people they are trying to help.
Author : Gabriel J. Gomes
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469710390
Knowledge of the world’s religions can lead to a discovery of common ground and shared global perspectives among people of different faiths. It can move people to unite and identify the world’s most pressing needs, enabling them to create plans to reduce violence, fight hunger, alleviate poverty, and promote justice and fairness for all peoples. A first step in this direction is learning about world religions. In Discovering World Religions, author Gabriel J. Gomes provides a comprehensive overview of a wide range of world religions, including Native American, African traditional, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and more. This thorough investigation • traces the origins and evolution of the major traditions of these world religions; • provides deeper analyses and interpretation of their essential beliefs and teachings; • outlines their practices; • presents their ethical standpoints; • discusses their main institutions, organizations, and actions; • examines the original experiences that gave rise to a number of religions; • follows the teachings on the sacred in each religion; • reviews the status of women in each religion; and • explains the challenges modern and postmodern worlds have presented to religions and how most of them have responded. Seeking to provide a solid understanding of each religion, Discovering World Religions presents a guide through the maze of myriad beliefs and practices as part of a cultural system that both shapes and in turn is shaped by it.
Author : Leo Rastogi, PhD
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781685096359
Have you ever wondered why there is so much religious diversity in the world? How did this story of humanity begin and what ancient wisdom has been lost along the way? Can you believe in God and not be religious? Or simply put, why do human beings have a need to believe in something… anything? This book is a journey through the genesis of faith, the evolution of ancient spiritual practices, the dawn of major world religions and an exploration of the emerging frontiers of New Age spirituality.
Author : Nancy Clemmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religions
ISBN : 1594711259
Exploring the Religions of Our World allows students to build on their understanding and experience of the Catholic Christian faith by studying different religious traditions. The text begins with a study of Judeo-Christian history, practice, and tradition before expanding to the study of other less familiar religions including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shintoism. The text moves on to uncover a variety of religious traditions that sprang from America's Protestant roots including Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Church of Christ, Scientist.Each chapter begins with an introduction that connects each religion to a contemporary person, practice, or teaching. A brief history follows, including information on the founder and other major figures in each respective religion. Other sections include those on scripture or major writings, beliefs and practices, and sacred places and sacred times. Each chapter ends with a Catholic apologetic focus and includes a look at ecumenical or interreligious dialogue between the Catholic Church and each particular religion. Similarities and distinctions in doctrines, traditions, and practices are also explored.This text was written in accordance with the U.S. Bishops' Curriculum Framework and follows Elective E: Ecumenical and Interreligious Issues.
Author : James L. Rowell
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506468099
What is the overarching meaning of the world's religions? Textbooks relay what the religions believe and leave it at that. But the more puzzling questions--Which of them is true? How do all viewpoints fit together or challenge one another?--are left unaddressed. Like an unfinished puzzle, the myriad religions present themselves to us as countless pieces, but their relationship to each other and ultimate importance escape us. Can the religions of the world really agree on anything or fit into a common narrative or singular image? This work argues that despite the disagreements and contradictions among world religions, a universal message can be found by studying them with care. It offers a comprehensive examination of religions and their meaning, uniquely bound by the hope and affirmation that in some way they are universally connected. It affirms a universalism by wisdom, which contends that a moral and spiritual wisdom can be found in many of the world's religions. Understood and interpreted properly, religions can help all people lead good and meaningful lives.
Author : Irving Hexham
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310314486
Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of unfamiliar philosophies and practices. On the other hand, the popular idea that all religions lead to the same God or the same moral life fails to account for the distinctive origins and radically different teachings found across the world’s many religions. Understanding World Religions presents religion as a complex and intriguing matrix of history, philosophy, culture, beliefs, and practices. Hexham believes that a certain degree of objectivity and critique is inherent in the study of religion, and he guides readers in responsible ways of carrying this out. Of particular importance is Hexham’s decision to explore African religions, which have frequently been absent from major religion texts. He surveys these in addition to varieties of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.