Exploring The Religions Of Our World PDF Download

Author : Nancy Clemmons
Release Date : 01 March 2009
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
Pages : 240
ISBN 13 : 1594711267

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Book Description: 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.

Exploring the Religions of Our World

Author : Nancy Clemmons
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
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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....

The Everything World s Religions Book

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : Religion
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An easy-to-use and comprehensive guide that explores the intriguing dogma and rituals, cultural convictions, and often-checkered backgrounds and histories of the world's religions....

Exploring World Religions

Author : Sean Dolan
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Genre : Religions
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Author : Irving Hexham
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Genre : Religion
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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 ...

The Kids Book of World Religions

Author : Jennifer Glossop,John Mantha
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Explains the basic beliefs, customs, and rituals of twelve different world religions, and includes information about tribal and native religions of Africa, North America, and Australia....

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Author : James L. Rowell
Publisher : Fortress Press
Genre : Religion
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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 ...

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Author : Jacob Neusner,Bruce Chilton
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Genre : Religion
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In 1830 philosopher Auguste Comte coined the term altruism to provide a general definition for the act of selflessly caring for others. But does this modern conception of sacrificing one's own interests for the well-being of others apply to the charitable behaviors encouraged by all world religions? In Altruism in World ...

Religion Matters

Author : Prothero, Stephen
Publisher : W.W. Norton & Company
Genre : Religion
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A religion is a system of stories, and there is no better way to engage with the worldÕs religions than through the stories that animate their beliefs and practices. Through the exploration of these ancient stories and contemporary practices, Stephen Prothero, a New York TimesÐbestselling author and gifted ...