| ISBN |
0745955096 (hardback) |
| 9780745955094 (hardback) |
| Name |
Kemp, Hugh P. author. |
| Title |
The one-stop guide to world religions / Hugh P. Kemp. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Published |
Oxford : Lion Books, 2013. |
| ©2013 |
| Description |
126 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Theory and Background -- Defining World Religions -- Mapping the World's Religions -- Primal Religion Primitive Beliefs -- Ancient Civilizations -- Mesopotamia And Babylon Egypt -- Getting Ready For Death And The Afterlife -- Greece and Rome -- Greco-Roman Religion -- Northern Europe -- The Celts And The Germanic Tribes -- Indus Valley Civilization -- Harappans And Aryans -- African Religion -- Diversity And Community -- Shamanism -- Religion Of Ecstacy -- Pacifica and Australian Aboriginal -- Melanesian, Micronesian, And Polynesian -- Native American Religion -- Natural And Spiritual Worlds -- The Peoples of the Andes -- The Incas -- Hinduism -- A Way Of Life -- Literature Of The Hindus -- The Key Ideas -- Society And Village Life -- Influence In The West -- Buddhism -- The Life Of The Buddha -- A Global Religion -- The Four Truths And Buddhist Texts -- Sects And Movements -- A Western Phenomenon -- Chinese Religions -- The Three Teachings -- |
| Contents note continued: Daoism -- Teachers And Historical -- Development -- Main Ideas And Influence -- Confucianism -- Confucius The Man -- Key Ideas, Teachings, The Analects -- The Legacy In China -- Judaism -- Historical Foundations And Overview -- The Patriarch, Moses -- Belief -- Ritual And Action -- Modern Judaism And The State -- Christianity -- The Centrality Of Jesus -- Its Establishment And Shape -- The Bible -- Belief And Practice -- Going Global -- Islam -- Introduction And Definitions -- Muhammad -- The Holy Scriptures -- Beliefs And Practices -- Sunni, Shi'a, And Sufi -- Yoruba Religion And Voodoo -- From Africa To The World -- Jainism -- A Peaceful Religion -- Zoroastrianism -- And The Parsees Of Mumbai -- Sikhism -- Guru Nanak, Belief, And The Gurudwara -- Japanese Religion And Shinto -- Old Religion In A Modern State -- Bahai -- Unity Of All -- Mormonism -- Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints -- Paganism -- Ancient Religion In A New Age -- |
| Contents note continued: Postmodernity -- Challenge To Religion -- Atheism, Secularism, And Unbelief -- No Need For God -- Revivals And Renewal Movements -- New Religious Movements -- New Age Movement And Esoterica -- Making Life Sacred Again -- Fundamentalism -- Extreme Religion. |
| Summary |
Covers a fully comprehensive range of faiths--major, minor, primal and new; includes their histories and backgrounds, key beliefs, and practices; shows how religions developed; illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs and maps. |
| Subjects |
Religions |
| Religion -- History |
| Series |
One-stop guides |
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