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.
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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
