Exploring Religious Meaning

, by Monk, Robert C.; Hofheinz, Walter C.; Lawrence, Kenneth T. (CON)

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ISBN: 9780132996600 | 013299660X
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Copyright: 1/1/1994

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A basic text for introduction to religious studies that provides the tools and resources for exploring the many dimensions of religion. The design of this text suggests an approach to critical inquiry that may be called inductive and integrative.

Preface or Some Ways of Using This Text	p. ix
Religion and Religious Traditions
Toward a Definition of Religion	p. 1
Reliance upon a Pivotal Value	p. 5
Person-in-Community	p. 7
An Individual and Person-in-Community	p. 9
Other Values Subordinate to Central Value	p. 10
Authentic to the Individual	p. 12
Religious Tradition	p. 13
Life-Governing Value	p. 15
Understanding Based on Dialogue	p. 16
Communication	p. 18
Religious Traditions	p. 20
Hinduism	p. 21
Buddhism	p. 25
Taoism	p. 30
Confucianism	p. 33
Judaism	p. 35
Christianity	p. 39
Islam	p. 43
Summary	p. 47
Basic Tenets of the Major World Religions	p. 48
Experiencing Religion
Religious Experience	p. 52
God's Call, Moses' Response	p. 54
Gautama's Quest for Nirvana	p. 55
Sufi Encounters	p. 58
Saint Teresa's Ecstasy	p. 61
Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe	p. 63
Mahatma Gandhi's Religious Journey	p. 64
Elements of Religious Experience	p. 67
The Role of Symbols in Religion	p. 68
The Role of Ritual in Religion	p. 73
Myth and Religious Insight	p. 78
Magic: Theory and Practice	p. 81
Ecstatic Religious Phenomena	p. 84
Mysticism in Religious Experience	p. 88
Religion in Artistic Expression	p. 93
Art as Symbolic Vehicle	p. 94
Images of Jesus as Christ in the Early Church	p. 100
Luminous Wholeness in Western European Medieval Architecture	p. 107
The Divine
Knowledge, Belief, Authority, and Tradition	p. 116
How Do We Know? What Can We Know?	p. 117
Interpretation and Verification of Religious Knowledge	p. 121
General and Special Revelation, Reason and Faith	p. 126
Authority in Religion	p. 131
Tradition: Its Meaning and Function	p. 133
The Anatomy of Faith	p. 136
Ways of Conceiving the Divine	p. 140
The Holy	p. 141
The Divine Expressed in Religious Texts	p. 146
Conceptual Expressions of the Divine	p. 153
Spirit	p. 155
The Self and Religion
Evil: Its Reality and Meaning	p. 160
Why Suffering?	p. 161
Concepts of Evil	p. 164
Institutionalized Forms of Evil	p. 170
Understanding the Self	p. 173
The Nature of Humanity	p. 174
On the Meaning of Person	p. 179
Views of Being Human, East and West	p. 184
Freedom and the Self	p. 188
Human Freedom	p. 189
Concepts of Christian Choosing: Grace, Predestination, and Accountability	p. 192
Sin and Guilt	p. 195
Roles of Shame and Guilt	p. 196
Guilt and Religious Experience	p. 197
Judeo-Christian Concepts of Sin	p. 200
Death and the Self	p. 203
Attitudes Toward Death	p. 204
How It May Feel To Die	p. 207
Death and the Afterlife: Cultural Perspectives	p. 211
Resurrection and Monotheistic Faith	p. 214
Salvation and Redemption	p. 217
Salvation	p. 217
Eschatology: The Coming Fulfillment	p. 220
Religion and the Sociocultural Context
The Religious Matrix of Interpersonal Relations	p. 231
The Individual and the Community	p. 232
Love and Duty	p. 235
Act and Motive	p. 239
Corporate Expressions of Ethical Concerns	p. 243
Liberation Theology and Justice	p. 244
Peace or Justice?	p. 246
Religion and the Social Status of Women	p. 251
Sexuality and Human Liberation	p. 257
Poverty and Race	p. 262
Ethnic Pluralism and Contemporary American Religion	p. 265
Religious Traditions and Social Stability	p. 268
Community of Faith	p. 269
Wholeness of Life in a Simply Structured Society	p. 271
Wholeness of Life in Classical Greece	p. 273
Japanese Fondness of Simplicity	p. 275
Religious Traditions and Social Change	p. 278
Population Growth and World Hunger	p. 278
Religion, Humanity, and Technology	p. 284
Secularization	p. 287
Characteristics of Modernization	p. 290
Modernism and Postmodernism: Some Variations	p. 292
New Religious Movements	p. 296
Religion and the Natural Order
Human Response to the Natural Process	p. 302
Humanity and the World	p. 303
Nature and the Natural	p. 308
Order and Origins	p. 312
Religious Views on the Origin of the Universe	p. 313
Religious Vision and Scientific Method	p. 319
The Temporal and Eternal	p. 325
Index of Religious Traditions	p. 331
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 335
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