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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... leading disciple and confirmed her enlightenment . Later , as abbess of her own convent , she was well known for her scholarship and her educational work . It is interesting that requirements for nuns have remained stricter than for ...
... leading him ultimately to reject all ideas of justification through one's own monastic practices or through the works of the church : penance , the sacraments , absolution , and the like . Confronted by the sale of indulgences - which ...
... leading thinker ( ca. 372-289 B.C.E. ) whose writings shaped the Confu- cian tradition Messiah end - time king , descended from King David , ex- pected to redeem Israel ; Christians identified the messi- ah ( Greek christos ) with Jesus ...