The Sacred Paths: Understanding the Religions of the WorldPearson Education, 2006 - 577 頁 This book combines study of the dynamic historical development of each religious tradition with a comparative thematic structure. In this way, the book helps readers to explore each of the major religions as a unique and integral system of meaning and life. At the same time, readers are encouraged to discover and explore the nature of religious experience by comparing basic themes and issues common to all religions. Covering the religions arising from India, China, Japan, and the Mediterranean world, this book introduces the key dimensions of religious experience, outlining the basic human concerns that give rise to religious experience, such as origin and identity, ultimate reality, human nature, and the good life. For anyone interested in exploring the origins and development of the diverse religions of the world. |
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... death ” —that is , death ending not only this life but also the future life . Some way to escape this re - death needs to be found , and this is beyond the power of rituals and sacrifices to the gods . In the Upanishads , this idea of re - ...
... death of Akhenaton , but it shows the tendency in Egyptian religion to fuse the gods and elevate the sun - god to supremacy . What is the real nature of the world and of humans ? In picturing the structure of the cosmos , ancient ...
... death , and executed him by crucifixion . It is true that there are elements of anti - Jewish feeling in the stories of Jesus ' trial as recorded in the gospels - probably reflecting the sour relations between Christians and Jews in a ...