Religions Of The West Today

Author : John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd T. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190642416

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Religions of the West Today by John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd T. Lewis Pdf

Ideal for courses in Western religions, Religions of the West Today, Fourth Edition will cover the same material as the Western chapters of the authors' longer textbook, World Religions Today, Sixth Edition. Revealing the significance of religion in contemporary life, it explores major Westernreligious traditions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - as well as indigenous religions, and new religions as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies.This unique volume accomplishes two goals: it connects today's religions to their classical beliefs and practices and focuses on how these religions have both radically changed the modern world and been changed by it. Thoroughly revised, the fourth edition features streamlined content for greateraccessibility; updated material on recent world events; and updated timelines.

Author : John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religions
ISBN : 0199999597

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World Religions Today by John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd Lewis Pdf

Revealing the significance of religion in contemporary life, World Religions Today, Fifth Edition, explores major religious traditions--Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, South Asian religions, East Asian religions, indigenous religions, and new religions--as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies. This unique volume accomplishes two goals: it connects today's religions to their classical beliefs and practices and focuses on how these religions have both radically changed the modern world and been changed by it. The book is enhanced by numerous pedagogical aids--text boxes, timelines, maps, illustrations, discussion questions, a comprehensive glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading--and more than 200 photographs. For a wealth of additional teaching and study resources, visit www.oup.com/us/esposito. World Religions Today, Fifth Edition, is also available as two separate volumes: Religions of Asia Today, Third Edition: 978-0-19-999964-4 Religions of the West Today, Third Edition: 978-0-19-999963-7

Author : Willard Gurdon Oxtoby,Amir Hussain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195427173

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World Religions by Willard Gurdon Oxtoby,Amir Hussain Pdf

This contributed volume examines in detail the major Western religious traditions, namely Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam, and religions of the ancient world. The text traces each tradition in depth from its origins, through its development, to the religion's meaning and practicein today's society. Comprehensive and accessible, the new third edition offers a thorough and engaging introduction to the Western faiths.

Author : John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd Thornton Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195102533

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World Religions Today by John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd Thornton Lewis Pdf

The twenty-first century is witnessing a resurgence and globalization of religion. Around the world, religion has become an increasingly more important and pervasive force in personal and public life, and faith and politics now play a powerful role in international affairs. Revealing the significance of religion in contemporary life, World Religions Today explores major religious traditions--Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and East Asian religions--as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies. Moving beyond the almost exclusively historical perspective of many books in the field, this text takes a fresh approach, using solid historical coverage of the various religious traditions as a framework to help students understand how faiths have evolved to the present day. It connects today's religions to their classical beliefs and practices but also shows how these religions have responded to and been transformed by the modern world. To help students grasp what might be "new" about the emerging era of religious life in the 21st century, the authors open each discussion with a contemporary scenario of religious experience that illustrates the tensions between pre-modern views and modernity. World Religions Today includes a general introduction that provides essential background information for students and features many pedagogical aids including timelines, maps, numerous illustrations, questions for discussion, and a glossary of key terms. Ideal for undergraduate courses in world religions and comparative religion, World Religions Today emphasizes the interconnectedness of faith, culture, politics, and society, providing a peerless examination of the diverse ways in which contemporary human beings are religious.

Author : Mary Pat Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317761488

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Religions Today by Mary Pat Fisher Pdf

Religions Today provides a sympathetic account of what living religions really are. Fisher traces the historical development and practices of major religious movements and explores how these evolve into contemporary belief and teaching. She considers major faiths as well as indigenous religions and new religious movements, focusing on how living religions affect contemporary society. Case studies and interviews with living people ensure that this concise guide is both readable and stimulating.

Author : Miroslav Volf,Tony Blair
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300190557

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Flourishing by Miroslav Volf,Tony Blair Pdf

More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing visions of what it means to live well. In this perceptive, deeply personal, and beautifully written book, a leading theologian sheds light on how religions and globalization have historically interacted and argues for what their relationship ought to be. Recounting how these twinned forces have intersected in his own life, he shows how world religions, despite their malfunctions, remain one of our most potent sources of moral motivation and contain within them profoundly evocative accounts of human flourishing. Globalization should be judged by how well it serves us for living out our authentic humanity as envisioned within these traditions. Through renewal and reform, religions might, in turn, shape globalization so that can be about more than bread alone.

Author : Frank Whaling
Publisher : T. & T. Clark Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012966134

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Religion in Today's World by Frank Whaling Pdf

Author : Mary Pat Fisher
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 0131829297

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Living Religions - Western Traditions by Mary Pat Fisher Pdf

For use as a core text for introductory and upper-level courses in Western religions and Introduction to World Religions courses. Can also be used as supplemental reading for individual religion courses. Living Religions Western Traditions is a highly readable and stimulating survey of the major global religions and new religious movements that originated in the West. The social context, origins, teachers, scriptures, and historical development of each faith are carefully explored, with emphasis on how practitioners themselves understand their traditions. Evocative illustrations, first-person interviews of ordinary people and boxes uncovering the spiritual roots of public figures bring this text to life.

Author : David Nirenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226168937

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Neighboring Faiths by David Nirenberg Pdf

This book represents the culmination of David Nirenberg’s ongoing project; namely, how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought about each other in the Middle Ages, and what the medieval past can tell us about how they do so today. There have been scripture based studies of the three "religions of the book” that claim descent from Abraham, but Nirenberg goes beyond those to pay close attention to how the three religious neighbors loved, tolerated, massacred, and expelled each other--all in the name of God--in periods and places both long ago and far away. Whether Christian Crusaders and settlers in Islamic-ruled lands, or Jewish-Muslim relations in Christian-controlled Iberia, for Nirenberg, the three religions need to be studied in terms of how each affected the development of the other over time, their proximity of religious and philosophical thought as well as their overlapping geographies, and how the three "neighbors” define (and continue to define) themselves and their place in the here-and-now--and the here-after--in terms of one another. Arguing against exemplary histories, static models of tolerance versus prosecution, or so-called Golden Ages and Black Legends, Nirenberg offers here instead a story that is more dynamic and interdependent, one where Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities have re-imagined themselves, not only as abstractions of categories in each other’s theologies and ideologies, but by living with each other every day as neighbors jostling each other on the street. From dangerous attractions leading to interfaith marriage, to interreligious conflicts leading to segregation, violence, and sometimes extermination, to strategies of bridging the interfaith gap through language, vocabulary, and poetry--Nirenberg aims to understand the intertwined past of the three faiths as a way for their heirs to coproduce the future.

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : Harper one
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015033145916

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Our Religions by Arvind Sharma Pdf

Published for the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions, this is the first introduction to the topic in which renowned scholars present their own traditions--Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--from both contemporary and historical perspectives.

Author : John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd T. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190642424

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Religions of Asia Today by John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd T. Lewis Pdf

Ideal for courses in Asian or Eastern religions, Religions of Asia Today, Fourth Edition, covers the same material contained in the authors' longer textbook, World Religions Today, Sixth Edition, while also featuring a unique chapter on Islam in Asia. Revealing the significance of religion incontemporary life, it explores Hinduism, Buddhism, South Asian religions, East Asian religions, indigenous religions, and new religions as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies. This unique volume accomplishes two goals: it connects today's religions to their classical beliefs and practices and focuses on how these religions have both radically changed the modern world and been changed by it. Thoroughly revised, the fourth edition features streamlined content for greateraccessibility; updated material on recent world events; and updated timelines.

Author : Ronald F. Inglehart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197547045

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Religion's Sudden Decline by Ronald F. Inglehart Pdf

'Religion's Sudden Decline' provides evidence of a major decline in religion in most of the world, based on surveys of over 100 countries containing 90 percent of the world's population, carried out from 1981 to 2020 - the largest base of empirical evidence ever assembled to analyse mass acceptance or rejection of religion.--

Author : John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0199759499

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Religions of Asia Today by John L. Esposito,Darrell J. Fasching,Todd Lewis Pdf

Ideal for courses in Asian/Eastern religions, Religions of Asia Today, Second Edition, covers the same material contained in the authors' longer textbook, World Religions Today, Fourth Edition, while also featuring a unique chapter on Islam in Asia. Religions of Asia Today, Second Edition, reveals the significance of religion in contemporary life. Hinduism, Buddhism, East Asian Religions, Islam in Asia, indigenous religions, and new religions are explored as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies. This unique volume accomplishes two goals: it connects today's Asian religions to their classical beliefs and practices and focuses on how these religions have responded to and been transformed by the modern world. The authors combine thorough coverage of the historical background of each religion with up-to-the-minute discussions of its current practices. This volume is enhanced by numerous pedagogical aids--text boxes, timelines, maps, discussion questions, a comprehensive glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading--and more than 100 photographs and illustrations. ALSO AVAILABLE TO SUIT YOUR COURSE NEEDS: World Religions Today, Fourth Edition (978-0-19-975951-4) Religions of the West Today, Second Edition (978-0-19-975950-7)

Author : Harold A. Netland
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1573830828

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Dissonant Voices by Harold A. Netland Pdf

Author : Dyron B. Daughrity
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 1433104520

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The Changing World of Christianity by Dyron B. Daughrity Pdf

Christianity has changed. Formerly known as the religion of Europe and North America, it is now a religion of the Global South: Asia, Africa, and Latin America. However, Christianity has never been merely a Western phenomenon - it has always been a borderless religion. Indeed, in six of the world's eight cultural blocks, Christianity is the largest faith. With convenient maps, helpful statistics, and concise histories of each of the world's major cultural blocks, The Changing World of Christianity is a dynamic guide for understanding Christianity's new ethos. From Ireland to Papua New Guinea, Argentina to China, South Africa to Russia, this book provides a clear and encyclopedic look at Christianity, the world's largest and most global religion.