Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
The Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions gives students greater insight into the stories behind the headlines by providing in-depth coverage of the religions that shape the world. This authoritative and comprehensive book answers your questions and exposes you to the concepts, movements, people, and events associated with living and ancient religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.
Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
The Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions gives students greater insight into the stories behind the headlines by providing in-depth coverage of the religions that shape the world. This authoritative and comprehensive book answers your questions and exposes you to the concepts, movements, people, and events associated with living and ancient religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
The Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions gives students greater insight into the stories behind the headlines by providing in-depth coverage of the religions that shape the world. This authoritative and comprehensive book answers your questions and exposes you to the concepts, movements, people, and events associated with living and ancient religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.
Encyclopedia of World Religions
Author: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
ISBN: 1593394918
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
A guide to the religions of the world and to the concepts, movements, people, and events that have shaped them. It includes features such as: entries on religious movements and concepts, historical and legendary figures, divinities, religious sites and ceremonies; images that show sacred places, vestments, rituals, objects, and texts; and more.
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
ISBN: 1593394918
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
A guide to the religions of the world and to the concepts, movements, people, and events that have shaped them. It includes features such as: entries on religious movements and concepts, historical and legendary figures, divinities, religious sites and ceremonies; images that show sacred places, vestments, rituals, objects, and texts; and more.
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877790440
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Contains 3,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the world's religions; features thirty in-depth discussions of major religions; and includes illustrations and maps.
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877790440
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Contains 3,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the world's religions; features thirty in-depth discussions of major religions; and includes illustrations and maps.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Living Faiths
Author: Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9781859862186
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This text presents an easy-to-use and comprehensive encyclopedia of living faiths.
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9781859862186
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This text presents an easy-to-use and comprehensive encyclopedia of living faiths.
Against Dharma
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300235232
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma,artha, and kama. Translated, these might be called religion, politics, and pleasure, and each is held to be an essential requirement of a full life. Balance among the three is a goal not always met, however, and dharma has historically taken precedence over the other two qualities in Hindu life. Here, historian of religions Wendy Doniger offers a spirited and close reading of ancient Indian writings, unpacking a long but unrecognized history of opposition against dharma. Doniger argues that scientific disciplines (shastras) have offered lively and continuous criticism of dharma, or religion, over many centuries. She chronicles the tradition of veiled subversion, uncovers connections to key moments of resistance and voices of dissent throughout Indian history, and offers insights into the Indian theocracy’s subversion of science by religion today.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300235232
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma,artha, and kama. Translated, these might be called religion, politics, and pleasure, and each is held to be an essential requirement of a full life. Balance among the three is a goal not always met, however, and dharma has historically taken precedence over the other two qualities in Hindu life. Here, historian of religions Wendy Doniger offers a spirited and close reading of ancient Indian writings, unpacking a long but unrecognized history of opposition against dharma. Doniger argues that scientific disciplines (shastras) have offered lively and continuous criticism of dharma, or religion, over many centuries. She chronicles the tradition of veiled subversion, uncovers connections to key moments of resistance and voices of dissent throughout Indian history, and offers insights into the Indian theocracy’s subversion of science by religion today.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Author: Charles George Herbermann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of World Religions
Author: Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.
The Baha'i Faith
Author: William S. Hatcher
Publisher: Baha'i Publishing Trust
ISBN: 9781931847063
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Explore the history, teachings, structure and community life of the world-wide Baha'i community-what may well be the most diverse organized body of people on earth-through this revised and updated comprehensive introduction (2002). Named by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a book that has made "significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding" of religious thought, The Baha'i Faith covers the most recent developments in a faith that, in just over 150 years, has grown to become the second most wide-spread of the independent world religions.
Publisher: Baha'i Publishing Trust
ISBN: 9781931847063
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Explore the history, teachings, structure and community life of the world-wide Baha'i community-what may well be the most diverse organized body of people on earth-through this revised and updated comprehensive introduction (2002). Named by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a book that has made "significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding" of religious thought, The Baha'i Faith covers the most recent developments in a faith that, in just over 150 years, has grown to become the second most wide-spread of the independent world religions.
The Classification of Religions
Author: Duren James Henderson Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description