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The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions
Author Hinnells, John R.
Date2010.03.25
Pages1008
PublisherPenguin
Publisher Url http://www.penguin.co.uk/
LocationLondon, England, UK [倫敦, 英格蘭, 英國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
AbstractThe definitive guide to our world's religions.

Comprehensive and authoritative, The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions is compiled by a team of international scholars. This in-depth survey of active religions, fully updated to include modern developments and the most recent scholarship, now features chapters on twenty-first-century America, Britain, Canada, and Australia. Ranging across the globe, contributors explain the sources and history of today's religious systems, from Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and Islam, to regional groups in Africa, China, and Japan. Readers will find a wealth of detail on doctrines, practices, rites of passage, rituals, and the role of gender in modern faiths.
Table of contents[Table of Contents]

The Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction to The Penguin Handbook of the World’s Living Religions
John R. Hinnells

Introduction to the First Edition
John R. Hinnells

Part I The Religions
1 Judaism
Alan Unterman
2 Christianity
Andrew Walls
3 Islam
Alford T. Welch
4 Zoroastrianism
Mary Boyce
5 Hinduism
Simon Weightman
6 Sikhism
W, Owen Cole
7 Jainsim
Kendall W. Folkert, revised and expanded by John E. Cort
8 Buddhism
L. S. Cousins
9 Chinese Religions
Michael Saso
10 Japanese Religions
David Reid
11 Native North American Religions
Armin W. Geertz
12 Religions of the Pacific
Brian Colless and Peter Donovan
13 African Religions
Aylward Shorter
14 New Religious Movements in Primal Societies
Harold W. Turner
15 Modern Alternative Religions in the West
J. Gordon Melton
16 Baha’ism
Denis Maceoin

PartII Cross-Cultural Issues
17 Religion and Gender
Ursula King
18 Spirituality
Ursula King
19 The Study of Diaspora Religion
John R. Hinnells
20 African Diaspora Religion
Ossie Stuart
21 The Australian South Asian Diaspora
Purushottama Bilimoria
22 The Religions of the South Asian Diaspora in Canada
Harold Coward
23 South Asian Religions in the United States
Raymond Brady Williams
25 Comparative Reflections on South Asian Religion in International Migration
John R. Hinnells

Part III Religions in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US in the Twenty-First Century
26 Religions in Australia in the Twenty-First Century
Gary D. Bouma
27 Religions in Canada in the Twenty-First Century
Harold Coward
28 Religions in the UK in the Twenty-First Century
Paul Weller
29 Religions in the US in the Twenty-First Century
Raymond Brady Williams

General Bibliography
Index
ISBN9780141035468 (pbk)
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