簡介
This comprehensive, user-friendly text introduces students to the principal world faiths. This text is cross-referenced to and can be used in conjunction with Markham's World Religions Reader, Second Edition as a complete teaching package for comparative religion courses.
目錄
List of Contributors ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Studying Religion: Issues in Definition and Method 1
2 Religion and Sociology 21
3 Religion and Psychology 44
4 Religion and Scripture: The Function of the Special Books of Religion 68
5 Religion, Ritual, and Culture 96
6 Religion and the Arts 117
7 Secular Humanism 139
8 Hinduism 163
9 Buddhism 190
10 Sikhism 215
11 Chiness Religion 240
12 Judaism 272
13 Shintoism 297
14 Christianity 309
15 Islam 337
Bibliography 372
Index 375
