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Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religions
ISBN : 0670886785
Author : Arthur A. Jones
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religions
ISBN : 0080264417
Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Religions
ISBN : OCLC:1107637667
An exploration of the key figures, festivals, holy writings, and fundamental beliefs of all the major religions from ancient Egypt and Zoroastrianism, to the great faiths of today. The book is fully cross-referenced for ease of use.
Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : DK Children
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 075662018X
A visual overview of world religion identifies, explains, and compares major religions around the world, featuring more than one thousand entries on religious concepts, major figures, key events, and beliefs.
Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : 0751359955
Explains the key figures, festivals, holy writings and fundamental beliefs of all the major religions from ancient Egypt and Zoroastrianism, to the great faiths of today. It is cross-referenced and indexed and is intended to decode religions terminology and broaden horizons.
Author : Richard Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0824507339
Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religions
ISBN : 0789447118
In an easy-to-follow, accessible reference format, this book uses over 700 full-color illustrations and clear text to explain, identify, and compare the major religions of the world from Zoroastrianism and ancient Egyptian rituals to Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
Author : Margaret Stutley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429624254
Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background. This book, first published in 1985, covers all aspects of Hindu iconography, and explains that its roots lie far back in the style of prehistoric art. The dictionary demonstrates the rich profusion of cults, divinities, symbols, sects and philosophical views encompassed by the Hindu religious tradition.
Author : A. Van Deursen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781504066822
This comprehensive volume provides detailed descriptions, illustrations, and context for many of the Bible’s historical and cultural references. Bible stories are full of objects, manners, and customs that would have been easily recognized by people living in the Middle East during ancient times. Towns have their walls and gates; agriculture has its threshing instruments and carts; the tabernacle has its altars and lavers of brass. But while the terms used to describe these items were once common knowledge, they leave many modern readers wondering about their specific meanings. This volume offers a clearer understanding of the Bible through accessible information about its many historical references. Organized by subject matter, it includes chapters on everything from vegetation to coinage, matrimony, weaponry, transportation, idolatry, and holy places, among many other topics. Based on archeological research, The Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Manners & Customs helps readers attain a more vivid sense of the Bible’s rich background and longstanding influence.
Author : Marshall Cavendish Reference
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Civilisation islamique
ISBN : 0761479295
The three books comprising the Muslim World series provide a rich and balanced view of all aspects of Islamic religion and its varied manifestations through time and around the world, with emphasis on understanding modern Muslim society today. Illustrated Dictionary of the Muslim World contains hundreds of short entries on Islamic concepts, religious practices, historical events and personalities, geographical places, and fact files of nations with large Muslim populations. Islamic Beliefs, Practices, and Cultures begins with 14 chapters introducing the ideas promoted by the religion's founder in the seventh century and tracking their development into new doctrines, schools of thought, and philosophical, literary, and cultural traditions as diverse as recitation of scripture in madrassas in Egypt to gift giving at holiday time in the United States. Among the numerous special features are those examining the meanings of jihad, the persistence of mystical Islam, and stand-up comedy addressing the cultural divides surrounding muslims today. Modern Muslim Societies, with a total of twenty-three chapters, devotes nine to subjects such as family life, marriage, law, human rights, and Muslim extremism before turning to fourteen regional surveys on manifestations of Islam around the world, including the United States and Canada, Iran, Southeast Asia, Africa, and everywhere else Islam has flourished. From the women around Muhammad to pop stars of today, from medieval caliphates to breakthroughs in science and medicine, from love poetry to suicide, no aspect of a rich and diverse story goes unnoticed in the three books of Muslim World. Religion, philosophy, politics, economy, society, law, history, visual arts, architecture, literature -- all sides of Islamic thought and Muslim ways of life receive attention in this uniquely organized presentation for students and interested general readers. - Publisher.
Author : Richard Kennedy
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Ideology
ISBN : 0706242912
This book is designed to impart the maximum amount of information, presented dispassionately, in the most attractive way possible. The illustrations have each been chosen to complemant the text - they add something to our knowledge and appreciation and reflect the diversity, colour and vitality of the different beliefs of the world.
Author : Kocku von Stuckrad,Christoph Auffarth
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 2154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004151001
The Brill Dictionary of Religion describes and analyses the multi-faceted roles of religions, both historically and in contemporary societies. This well-illustrated, comprehensive reference work engages religion as an important element of daily life and public communication.
Author : R. Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1035717315
Author : Jonathan Z. Smith,William Scott Green
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0006279678
Offers more than three thousand articles on the world of religion.
Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780810861947
New religious movements--commonly known as cults--are defined as organizations that have arisen within the last 200 years. Most treatments of these movements have typically resorted to sensationalism rather than objectivity, and New religious movements tend to receive negative media publicity. Despite their unfavorable portrayal in popular culture, however, new religious movements are a global phenomenon and much remains to be studied about these movements. In this newly updated second edition of the Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements, George D. Chryssides traces the rise and development of new religious movements throughout the world. An updated introduction summarizes the phenomenon of new religious movements and lays out the changes to the dictionary since the 2001 edition, while the main body of the dictionary consists of close to 600 cross-referenced entries on key figures, ideas, themes, and places related to various new religious movements. An index organizes the information in the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about new religious movements.
