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Religion and Man (98 Edition)

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ISBN13: 9780073661544
ISBN10: 0073661546
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The present volume provides an introduction to the scholarly study of some of the religious traditions involved in human history. The authors have sought to provide accurate descriptions of the rituals, myths, symbolic devices, belief systems, and social organizations of the world's religions. They have also provided sensitive interpretations of the ethos and the spiritual directions to which these various symbolic forms have pointed. In doing so, the authors show how a religious tradition can be studied in such a way that both data and interpretation, fact and meaning, detail and the patterns unifying the detail into a dynamic whole can be recognized and appreciated.
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Table of Contents

Preface

Part One - Indian Religious Traditions

Religion in the Vedic Period

Religion in the Post-Vedic Period

Bhakti Movements

Religious Systems

Medieval Arrivals

The Modern Period

Bibliography

Part Two - Far Eastern Religious Traditions

China

The Quest for Ultimate Harmony and the Great Tranquility

Introduction

Religion in China

Harmony in the Clan and Kingdom

The Religion of the Shang and Chou

Harmony in Society

Confucianism

Harmony with Nature

Philosophical and Religious Taoism

Harmony with Reality

Buddhism

Japan

Religion of a Sacred People in a Sacred Land

Introduction

Religion in Japan

Shinto

A Divine World and a Divine People

Buddhism in the Land of the Gods

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

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ISBN:
9780073661544
Subtitle:
Indian and Far Eastern Religious Traditions
Author:
Baird
Author:
Baird, Robert
Author:
Baird, Robert D.
Author:
Bloom, Alfred
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing
Subject:
Comparative Religion
Copyright:
1998
Edition Number:
1
Publication Date:
April 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
306
Dimensions:
9.26x7.34x.66 in. 1.22 lbs.
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