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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... issues raised in the academic study of these traditions . To carry out this goal of understanding , this edition combines the necessary discussion of historical matters with a thematic approach based on general issues that arise out of ...
... issues of class , power , and authority , as reflected in religious practices . In looking from the inside , the study of religious prac- tice pays close attention to what the people themselves say about the meaning and purpose of their ...
... issues , such as ordina- tion of women , abortion , homosexuality , and medical stem - cell research . Yet Christians generally have a hopeful sense in this early part of the twenty - first century . Christian communi- ties in ...