Synopses & Reviews
This classic work presents the religions of the world in a way that captures the total human experience in a factual and empathetic manner, helping students gain a sense of each religion's unique characteristics, positive meaning, romance, and beauty, while tackling some of today's most critical religious issues. Written in an engaging style, it comes fully updated-with fresh insights and information on today's new religious movements, the role of women in world religions today, religion in the years to come, and more. This text includes a wealth of learning aids, including practical outlines that guide students in researching and writing papers and through their visits to religious sites.
New to this Edition: - Revamped introduction, making it even more relevant to today's students
- Revised final chapter on issues in and affecting religion today and tomorrow, such as globalization, fundamentalism, and pluralism
- Updated bibliography and information on the current important and changing role of religion in world affairs, including Internet resources
- Sections on women in religion as well as religion in America for each world religion
FREE! BOUND INTO EVERY NEW COPY of Many Peoples, Many Faiths is Prentice Hall's new CD-ROM for world religion: The Sacred World: Encounters with the World's Religions. It contains over 60 video segments on nine of the world's leading religions, vividly illustrating key rituals and beliefs. Also included are a glossary of terms and self-assessment questions on the web, with direct links from the CD-ROM, tied directly to The Sacred World, to improve student comprehension.
Review
"The entire focus on contemporary issues is unique, as far as I have found. In addition, Young has the best chapter on Indigenous Religions I have found. And his first chapters on definitions of religion are quite excellent and much easier for students to follow than in many similar textbooks .... This book is far preferred by students." Pamela Jean Owens,
University of Nebraska, Omaha "The author has the student in mind ....Students with little background can comprehend it and find it interesting ....This is the only text I use, and it covers everything well for me." Mark Putnam, University of Northwestern Iowa
Review
' \"The entire focus on contemporary issues is unique, as far as I have found. In addition, Young has the best chapter on Indigenous Religions I have found. And his first chapters on definitions of religion are quite excellent and much easier for students to follow than in many similar textbooks .... This book is far preferred by students.\" Pamela Jean Owens,
University of Nebraska, Omaha \"The author has the student in mind ....Students with little background can comprehend it and find it interesting ....This is the only text I use, and it covers everything well for me.\" Mark Putnam, University of Northwestern Iowa '
Synopsis
Brief selections from the sacred texts of the major religious faiths covered in Living Religions, 5/e.
Table of Contents
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Preface.
1. Indigenous Sacred Ways.
A Cherokee Origin Tale. A Tale of Kininaekai. A Navajo Song. Yoruba Texts. A Yoruba Origin Tale. The Yoruba Circle of Life. Yoruba Morning Prayer. A Maori Origin Tale. Indigenous Sacred Ways in the Modern World: A Conversation Between Native American and Maori Spiritual Leaders.
2. Hinduism.
Selections from the Rig Veda. Invocation of Angi. The Sacrifice of Purusha. An Origin Tale from the Rig Veda. Selections from the Upanishads. The Laws of Manu and the Stages of Life. Selections from The Bhagavad-Gita.
3. Jainism.
From the Kalpa Sutra: On the life of Mahavira. From the Ankaranga Sutra: Begging for Food.
4. Buddhism.
Theravada Buddhism. Selections from the Dhammapada. Selections from the Discourse on the Analysis of the Undefiled. A Thai Buddhist Sermon. Mahayana Buddhism. The Bodhisattva. Wonderful Voice Bodhisattva. Hymn to Perfect Wisdom. Buddhist Texts from China and Japan.
5. Taoism and Confucianism.
Taoist Texts. On Tolerance. Selections from the Tao-te Ching. Confucian Texts. Selections from the Analects of Confucius. The Meaning and Value of Rituals.
6. Shinto.
The Kojiki.
7. Judaism.
Selections from the Hebrew Bible. A Biblical Origin Tale. Abraham: the Father of Many Nations. Exodus, the Scriptural Warrant for Passover. Law and Ethics. Absolute Monotheism. Selections from the Rabbinic Tradition. Selections from the Talmud. Selections from the Midrash. Selections from the Mishnah. Selections from the Halakhah. A 16th Century Jewish Sermon.
8. Christianity.
Selections from the New Testament. John the Baptist. The Sermon on the Mount. The Crucifixion and Resurrection. Selections from The Literal Meaning of Genesis by Saint Augustine. Selections From .the Rule of Saint Benedict. To the Bishops of Sardinia. Martin Luther\'s Ninety-Five Theses.
9. Islam.
Selections from the Qur\'an. The Opening. Abraham. Al-Hijr. Light. Selections from The Alchemy of Happiness. Selections from the Mystical Poetry of Rumi.
10. Sikhism.
Selections from the Hymns of Guru Arjan.
11. New Religious Movements.
Selections from the Kitab-I-Aqadas. Selections from the Sedona Vortex Experience. '