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Beskrivning
This comprehensive, user-friendly text introduces students to the principal world faiths. This text is cross-referenced to and can be used in conjunction with Markham's World Religions Reader, Second Edition as a complete teaching package for comparative religion courses.
Ian S. Markham is Professor of Theology at Liverpool Hope University College. His previous publications include Plurality and Christian Ethics (1994), and also numerous articles and reviews. In 1993 he was appointed to the Council of the Advertising Standards Authority. Dr Tinu Ruperell is Lecturer in Theology at Liverpool Hope University College.
Innehållsförteckning
List of Contributors ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xiii1 Studying Religion: Issues in Definition and Method 12 Religion and Sociology 213 Religion and Psychology 444 Religion and Scripture: The Function of the Special Books of Religion 685 Religion, Ritual, and Culture 966 Religion and the Arts 1177 Secular Humanism 1398 Hinduism 1639 Buddhism 19010 Sikhism 21511 Chiness Religion 24012 Judaism 27213 Shintoism 29714 Christianity 30915 Islam 337Bibliography 372Index 375