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The World Religions Reader (Record no. 25318)

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International Standard Book Number 9780415174886
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Personal name Beckerlegge Gwilym
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Title The World Religions Reader
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2000
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Extent 478p
Dimensions xix
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Price amount Rs. 950
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Formatted contents note Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; PART ONE: JUDAISM; Passages from. the Jewish Bible; 1.1 Torah: The Five Books of Moses; 1.2 The Prophets; 1.3 The Writings; From. the Rabbinic Tradition; 1.4 The Sanhedrin from. the Mishnah; 1.5 Laws of prayer from. the Shulkhan Arukh; 1.6 Laws concerning the Seven Days of Mourning; 1.7 Readings from. The Authorised Daily Prayer Book; 1.8 Prayer from. Service of the Heart; 1.9 Kol Nidre Prayer; Different Voices from. the Past; 1.10 Hasidic: Sayings of the Bratzlaver; 1.11 Jewish poets of Spain; 1.12 Maimonides; 1.13 Judaism. as a 'revealed legislation; 1.14 The rock of Judaism; The Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Theology; 1.15 Yossel Rakover's appeal to God; 1.16 The concept of m.an after Auschwitz; 1.17 Survival and memory; Judaism and Israel; 1.18 The redemption of Israel; 1.19 Muslims, Jews, and the Western world - A Jewish view; 1.20 The current role of Halakhah; Torah and Covenant: Recent and Contemporary Voices; 1.21 "The concept of Torah; 1.22 The people and the Book; 1.23 The Pharisaic movement; 1.24 The law is not a burden; 1.25 A priest-people; 1.26 The chosen people; 1.27 Reclaiming the covenant: A Jewish feminist's search for meaning; 1.28 Domestic observances; PART TWO: CHRISTIANITY; Passages from the Christian Bible; 2.1 Creation and the original condition of humanity according to the old testament; 2.2 The Kingdom of God; 2.3 The Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5-7; 2.4 The Resurrection; 2.5 The work of Christ; 2.6 Baptism; The Church Fathers; 2.7 Origen on the baptism of infants; 2.8 St Ignatius on the ministry and sacraments; 2.9 St Irenaeus on tradition and succession; The Churches: Their Life and Faith; 2.10 The 'Nicene' or Constantinopolitan Creed (325 CE); 2.11 The Athanasian Creed; 2.12 A declaration of the Second Vatican Council (1964); 2.13 Anglican attitudes to the creeds (1976); 2.14 Hymns; 2.15 A joint declaration by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Rome, 1989; 2.16 The Primacy of the Bishop of Rome from a homily by Pope John Paul II, 1989; 2.17 Confessions of faith: The St Hilda community; 2.18.on abortion from Evangelium Vitae; Women's Voices and Feminist Theology; 2.19 God as Mother and Father; 2.20 The Intifada, nonviolence and the Bible; 2.21 Mary as one of the bases of feminist theology; 2.22 Theological perspectives of a religious women today; Christianity and Social Justice; 2.23 An attempt at synthesis: solidarity and poverty; 2.24 The black Messiah and black humanity; 2.25 Reflections on liberation theology; 2.26 Declaration of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, April 1990; 2.27 A statement in support of Lithuanian independence, Easter eve, 1990; PART THREE: ISLAM; From the Qur'an; 3.1 The Cow (extract); 3.2 The Night Journey (extract); 3.3 The Believers (extract); 3.4 Light (extract); 3.5 Ya Sin (extract); 3.6 The Mount (extract); 3.7 Iron (extract); 3.8 The Mustering (extract); 3.9 The Land; 3.10 The Sun; 3.11 The Night; 3.12 The Forenoon; 3.13 The Expanding; 3.14 The Fig; 3.15 The Blood-Clot; 3.16 Power; 3.17 The Clear Sign; 3.18 The Earthquake<br/>3.19 The Chargers; 3.20 The Clatterer; 3.21 Rivalry; 3.22 Afternoon; 3.23 The Backbiter; 3.24 The Elephant; 3.25 Koraish; 3.26 Charity; 3.27 Abundance; 3.28 The Unbelievers; 3.29 Help; 3.30 Perish<br/>3.31 Sincere Religion; 3.32 Daybreak; 3.33 Men; The Beautiful Nantes; 3.34 From. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; 3.35 Muhyi aI-Din Ibn Arabi on the Beautiful Nam.es; 3.36 From. Edwin Arnold's Pearls of Faith; Hadith/Sunnah; 3.37 The living thoughts of the Prophet Muhammad; 3.38 On birth control; 3.39 The character of Islamic Law; Muslim. Mystics; 3.40 'The Blemishes of the Soul’; 3.41 'Poem. of the Way’; 3.42 Shaikh Abu-I-Abbas al-Alawi; Islam in the Late Twentieth Century; 3.43 A statement by the Islamic Council of Europe, 1976; 3.44 Veiled threats; 3.45 Disaggregating 'Islam': Four guidelines; PART FOUR: HINDUISM; Village Hinduism; 4.1 The concept 'Hinduism’; 4.2 The problem of Village Hinduism; 4.3 Caste, food and commensality; 4.4 Status evaluation in the Hindu caste system; 4.5 Theodicy and the doctrine of Karma; Classical Hindu Patterns of Liberation; 4.6 From the Upanishads; 4.7 From the Bhagavad Gita; 4.8 From the Laws of Manu: Duties of husband and wife; The Modern Period; 4.9 The meaning of moksha in contemporary Hindu thought and life; 4.10 The unity of religions; 4.11 A modern interpretation of Advaita; 4.12 The coming of a spiritual age: Sri Aurobindo and Auroville; 4.13 M. K. Gandhi's Experiments with Truth; 4.14 'Hindu-ness'; 4.15 A modern Hindu philosopher's understanding of caste; 4.16 New wine, old skins: The Sangh Parivar and the transformation of 'Hinduism'; PART FIVE: BUDDHISM; From the Theravada Tradition; 5.1 The Buddha; 5.2 The Dhamma; 5.3 The Sangha; 5.4 The Magga; From the Mahayana Tradition; 5.5 Meditation; 5.6 Personal devotion; 5.7 Militant Buddhism: The determination of Nichiren; 5.8 Magic and ritual; Recent and Contemporary Buddhist Concerns; 5.9 The benefits of Nichiren's teaching; 5.10 Zen hardship versus 'instant enlightenment'; 5.11 Western clothes for Zen Buddhism?; 5.12 Helping others; 5.13 Buddhist grass-roots activism; 5.14 Sarvodaya: self-help in Sri Lanka; 5.15 See the suffering; PART SIX: SIKHISM; Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh; 6.1 A selection of the hymns of Guru Nanak; 6.2 From the Dasam Granth of Guru Gobind Singh; The Sikh Tradition; 6.3 Sikhism; 6.4 The Code of Sikh Conduct and Conventions: From Sikh Rahit Maryada; Khalistan and Sikh identity; 6.5 ‘We are not Hindus'; 6.6 Characteristics of Sikh Fundamentalism; 6.7 What is and what is not anti-Sikh; 6.8 Sikhism and politics; 6.9 The status and position of the Golden Temple; A Sikh Woman of the Nineties; 6.10 Sikhism, love, Amrit; Index. <br/>
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