Introducing Religion: Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 How to Study Religion -- Pictures of Religion -- Another Reality -- Definitions of Religion -- Three Forms of Religious Expression and a Working Definition -- The Structure of this Boo...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Taylor and Francis
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Edition: | 4th ed |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Ellwood, Robert: Introducing Religion : Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century. - Milton : Taylor and Francis,c2016 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 How to Study Religion -- Pictures of Religion -- Another Reality -- Definitions of Religion -- Three Forms of Religious Expression and a Working Definition -- The Structure of this Book -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 2 History of Religion on Planet Earth -- Human Religious Beginnings -- The Religion of Early Gatherers and Hunters -- Archaic Agriculture -- Ancient Empires -- The Axial Age -- The Great Religions -- Five Stages in the Development of Great Religions -- Apostolic -- Empire and Wisdom -- Devotionalism -- Reformation -- Reformation -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 3 Myth: Our Lives, and the World's, Are Stories -- Your Story as Myth -- Stories Before Writing -- Coyote -- Kinds of Myth and the Creation Myth -- The Myth of the Hero -- The Warrior Hero -- The Savior Hero -- Myth and Meaning -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 4 Magic Doorways: Symbol, Rite, and Religion -- Signs and Symbols -- Audio Symbols -- Nonverbal -- Nonconceptual Verbal -- Conceptual Verbal -- The Orchestration of Symbols in Rite -- Public Worship -- Pilgrimage -- Initiation -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 5 Oases of the Mind: The Psychology of Religion -- Mental Shifts -- Subuniverses -- Development and Change -- Religious Experience -- Psychological Interpretations of Religion -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 6 Inner Adventure: The Way of Realization, the Way of Faith -- Ways to Go -- The Way of Realization -- Awakening -- Preparation -- Illumination -- Dark Night of Soul -- Unitive State -- Insight -- Faith, and Monks Who Hated God -- The Meeting of the Twain -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 7 Why Evil? -- What Exactly is Evil? -- Myths of the Origin of Evil -- Evil Ritual, Evil Initiation: Can Religion Create Evil? Why Do Bad Things Happen? Religious Thought and Evil -- Summary -- Chapter 8 Faith Through Form: Religion and Art -- Stained-Glass Windows -- Painting -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- Music -- Poetry -- Drama -- Novels and Stories -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 9 Ghost Marriages and Country Music: Popular Religion -- Two Kinds of Religion -- Popular Expressions of Mainstream Religion -- The Devil's Share -- Global Christianity -- Theories of Popular Religion -- Camouflages of the Sacred -- Are They Religion? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 10 Infinite Information, Worlds Without End: The Internet, Religion, and Virtual Realities -- The Way We Live Now -- Levels and Life -- Information Please -- Alone Together: Religious Talk Online -- Gamesmanship -- Gateways to Wonder -- Cyber Apocalyptic -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Traveling Together: The Sociology of Religion -- All Religion is Social -- Religious Groups -- Established Religion -- Three Kinds of Religion -- Emergent Religion -- Religious Personalities and Roles -- The Transformation of Society By Religion -- Image of the Normative Nature of Society -- Worship and Sociology of Religion -- Historical Impact of Religion -- Prophetic Teaching and Religious Demands for Justice -- Religion and The Interpretation of History -- Religion Today -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 12 Truth Messages: The Conceptual Expression of Religion -- Ways of Thinking about God -- God -- Determining Truth in Religion -- Reason -- Experience -- Empiricism -- Authority -- Sociological Factors in Religious Preference -- Existential Choice -- Are Religious Beliefs Irrefutable? -- Essentialism and Deconstructionism -- The New Atheists -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 13 Worlds to Come: Religious Eschatology and the Afterlife -- On the one Hand, on the Other… -- How Important Is It? -- Now or Later -- Islamic End-Time Christian Judgment -- One Death or Many: Heaven and Hell Versus Reincarnation -- Eternal Recurrence -- What Kind of Heaven? -- Near-Death Experiences -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 14 How Shall We Live? Religion and Ethics -- Taking it to the Streets -- Ethics and Morality -- Down from on High -- Kinds of Ethical Thought -- Similarities and Differences in Religious Ethical Traditions -- Contemporary Issues in Religious Ethics -- The Abortion Controversy -- The Right to Die -- The Role of Women in Religion -- Religion and Ecology -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 15 Horror and Glory: Religion Confronting War -- Introducing War -- What is War? -- The Feel of War -- Just War Theory -- To the Right and Left of Just War -- A Remarkable Discovery -- Protection and More Than Protecton -- Living the Dream -- The Joy of Battle -- Terrorism -- Mythic Time and Ourselves Again -- The Horror of War -- The Nonviolent High -- War and Moral Meaning -- Summary -- Journey's End -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Notes -- Credits -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1315507196 |