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RELG 4: Introduction to World Religions 4th Table of contents:

1. Beginning Your Study of World Religions
1-1. Coming to Grips with Your Preunderstanding of Religion
1-1a. What Is Preunderstanding?
1-1b. Your Preunderstanding of Religion
1-2. What Is Religion?
1-2a. Defining Religion
1-2b. Notable Definitions of Religion
1-2c. The Definition Used in This Book
1-3. Why Study Religion?
1-3a. Studying the Persistence of Religion in the Modern World
1-3b. What the Academic Study of Religion Can Offer You
1-4. Dimensions of Religion
1-4a. The Cognitive Dimension
1-4b. The Ethical Dimension
1-4c. The Ritual Dimension
1-4d. The Institutional Dimension
1-4e. The Aesthetic Dimension
1-4f. The Emotional Dimension
1-5. Ways of Studying Religion
1-5a. Theology and Religious Studies
1-5b. History
1-5c. Psychology
1-5d. Sociology
1-5e. Cultural Anthropology
1-5f. Women’s Studies
1-5g. Biology
1-5h. Conclusions about Methods of Studying Religion
1-6. Special Issues in the Study of Religion Today
1-6a. Tolerance and Intolerance
1-6b. Violence
1-6c. Pluralism
1-6d. Religion and Ecological Crisis
1-6e. New Religious Movements
1-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-1. Learning
2. Encountering Indigenous Religions: Ways to Tribal Life
2-1. Names for This Type of Religion
2-1a. Traditional Religion
2-1b. Primitive Religion
2-1c. Animism and Totemism
2-1d. Manaism
2-1e. Shamanism
2-1f. Small-Scale Religions
2-1g. Nature Religion
2-1h. Indigenous Religions
2-2. Challenges to Study
2-2a. Lack of Written Sources
2-2b. Difficulty Discerning Continuity and Discontinuity
2-2c. Mainstream Guilt
2-2d. Misrepresentations in Popular Culture
2-2e. Misuse of Indigenous Rituals
2-3. Common Features of Indigenous Religions
2-3a. The Importance of Place
2-3b. Global Distribution
2-3c. Many Gods and Spirits
2-3d. Influenced by Other Cultures
2-3e. Based on Orality, Story, and Myth
2-3f. Oriented More toward Practice Than to Belief
2-3g. In-Group Based
2-3h. The Goodness of the World
2-3i. The Role of Religious Specialists
2-3j. Continuing Vitality
2-4. A Native American Religion: Lakota
2-4a. Name and Location
2-4b. Basic Features of Lakota Religion
2-4c. Lakota Rituals
2-4d. Lakota Culture and Religion: Decline and Signs of Revival
2-5. An African Religion: Yoruba
2-5a. High God and Other Gods
2-5b. Religious Specialists
2-5c. Spirits of the Ancestors
2-6. An Afro–Caribbean Religion: Vodou
2-6a. Location and Name
2-6b. Divinities
2-6c. Groups
2-6d. Worship
2-6e. Spell and Counter-Spell Rituals
2-6f. Political Influence in Haiti
2-7. Indigenous Religions Timeline: 1500–Present
2-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-2. Learning
3. Encountering Hinduism: Many Paths to Liberation
3-1. The Name Hinduism
3-2. The Hindu Present as Shaped by Its Past
3-2a. The Vedic Period (1500–600 B.C.E.)
3-2b. The Upanishadic Period (600–400 B.C.E.)
3-2c. The Classical Period (400 B.C.E.–600 C.E.)
3-2d. The Devotional Period (600 C.E.–Present)
3-3. Essential Hindu Teachings
3-3a. Main Deities in the Three Devotional Movements
3-3b. Hindu Doctrinal Concepts
3-4. Hindu Ethics and Ways of Life
3-4a. The Caste System
3-4b. The Four Stages of a Man’s Life
3-4c. The Four Goals of Life
3-4d. The Lives of Hindu Women
3-5. Hindu Ritual and Meditation
3-5a. Images
3-5b. Worship in the Temple and the Home
3-5c. Pilgrimage
3-5d. Festivals and Holidays
3-5e. Funerals
3-5f. Yoga
3-6. Hinduism around the World Today
3-6a. Hinduism in South Asia and Africa
3-6b. Hinduism in the West
3-6c. Hindu Migration and Life in North America
3-7. Hinduism Timeline: 3000 B.C.E.–Present
3-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-3. Learning
4. Encountering Jainism: The Austere Way to Liberation
4-1. The Name Jainism
4-2. The Jain Present as Shaped by Its Past
4-2a. Founding and the First Thousand Years (600 B.C.E.–ca. 400 C.E.)
4-2b. The Next Thousand Years (600–1600)
4-2c. Early Modern Times through Today (1600–Present)
4-3. Essential Jain Teachings
4-3a. No Gods
4-3b. Time and the World
4-3c. Jiva and Ajiva
4-3d. Karma and Liberation
4-3e. Theories of Knowledge
4-4. Ethics: The Five Cardinal Virtues
4-4a. Do No Harm; Speak the Truth
4-4b. Do Not Steal; Do Not Be Possessive
4-4c. Be Chaste
4-5. Jain Ritual and Worship
4-5a. The Life of Monks and Nuns
4-5b. Life of the Laity in Worship and Devotion
4-5c. Jain Funerals
4-5d. Two Jain Festivals
4-6. Jainism around the World Today
4-6a. Jainism in the West
4-6b. Jainism in North America
4-7. Jainism Timeline: 600s B.C.E.–1990s C.E.
4-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-4. Learning
5. Encountering Buddhism: The Middle Path to Liberation
5-1. The Name Buddhism
5-2. Buddhism Today as Shaped by Its Past
5-2a. Gautama’s Road to Enlightenment
5-2b. Achievement of Enlightenment
5-2c. India, Sri Lanka, and Theravada
5-2d. The Rise of Mahayana: China and Japan
5-2e. Tibet and the Diamond Vehicle
5-3. Essential Buddhist Teachings
5-3a. The Four Noble Truths
5-3b. The Noble Eightfold Path
5-3c. The Three Characteristics of Existence
5-4. Buddhist Ethics for Monastics and Laypeople
5-4a. General Buddhist Morality
5-4b. The Five Precepts
5-4c. Other Precepts and Moral Rules
5-5. Buddhist Ritual and Meditation
5-5a. Temples
5-5b. Images of the Buddha
5-5c. Prayer and Meditation
5-5d. Protective Rituals
5-5e. Funeral Rituals
5-6. Buddhism around the World Today
5-6a. Buddhism in Modern Asia
5-6b. Buddhism Comes to the Western World
5-6c. Early Buddhist Immigration to North America
5-6d. The Next Wave of Buddhist Immigration
5-6e. Conclusion
5-7. Buddhism Timeline: 570 B.C.E.– Present
5-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-5. Learning
6. Encountering Sikhism: The Way of God’s Name
6-1. The Name Sikhism
6-2. Sikhism Today as Shaped by Its Past: Two Key Periods
6-2a. The Ten Gurus
6-2b. Sikhism from British Rule until Today
6-3. Essential Sikh Teachings
6-3a. The One God
6-3b. Devotion to God
6-4. Key Sikh Ethics
6-4a. Rejection of Hindu Caste
6-4b. Other Moral Rules
6-5. Sikh Rituals and Worship
6-5a. The Gurdwara
6-5b. The Langar
6-5c. Sikh Life-Cycle Rituals from Birth to Death
6-5d. Other Festivals
6-6. Sikhism around the World Today
6-6a. The Sikh Diaspora
6-6b. The First Wave of Immigration to North America (1900–1940)
6-6c. Second and Third Waves to North America (1965–Present)
6-6d. Sikhism in Post-9/11 America
6-7. Sikhism Timeline: 1469–2014 C.E.
6-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-6. Learning
7. Encountering Daoism and Confucianism: Two Views of the Eternal Way
7-1. The Names Daoism and Confucianism
7-2. Daoism and Confucianism Today as Shaped by Their Past
7-2a. China before the Rise of Daoism and Confucianism (ca. 3000–500 B.C.E.)
7-2b. The Origins of Daoism (ca. 500 B.C.E.–200 C.E.)
7-2c. Daoism from 200 C.E. to 1664 C.E.
7-2d. The Near-Destruction and Revival of Daoism (1644–1980)
7-2e. Confucius and the Origins of Confucianism (551–479 B.C.E.)
7-2f. The Rise of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism (ca. 350 B.C.E.–1200 C.E.)
7-2g. The Modern Period of Daoism and Confucianism (1912–Present)
7-3. Essential Daoist and Confucian Teachings
7-3a. Ancient Teachings Common to Daoism and Confucianism
7-3b. Daoist Teachings on the Dao
7-3c. Traditional Daoist Deities
7-3d. Daoist Teaching of Wu Wei
7-3e. Daoist Views of Qi
7-3f. The Daoist Quest for Immortality
7-3g. Confucian Reformulations of Ancient Teachings
7-4. Daoist and Confucian Ethics
7-4a. Daoist Ethics
7-4b. Confucian Ethics
7-5. Ritual and Worship
7-5a. Daoist Temples and Worship
7-5b. Confucian Temples and Worship
7-5c. The Traditional Chinese Funeral
7-5d. A Final Comparison of Daoism and Confucianism
7-6. Daoism and Confucianism around the World Today
7-6a. Daoism and Confucianism in the West
7-6b. Confucianism in North America
7-6c. Daoism in North America
7-7. Daoism and Confucianism Timeline: 551 B.C.E.–Present
7-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-7. Learning
8. Encountering Shinto: The Way of the Kami
8-1. Names
8-2. The Shinto Present as Shaped by Its Past
8-2a. Before the Arrival of Buddhism (up to 600 C.E.)
8-2b. Shinto and Buddhism Together in Japan (600–1850)
8-2c. The Meiji Period (1850–1945)
8-2d. Shinto in Recent Times (1945–Present)
8-3. Shinto Teachings
8-3a. The Kami
8-3b. Characteristics of Other Shinto Teachings
8-4. Shinto Ethics
8-4a. General Characteristics
8-4b. Purity
8-5. Shinto Ritual
8-5a. The Shinto Shrine
8-5b. The Shinto Priesthood
8-5c. Prayer Plaques and Fortunes
8-5d. The Wedding Ceremony
8-5e. The Home Shrine
8-5f. The Shinto Funeral
8-6. Shinto around the World Today
8-7. Shinto Timeline: 250–Present
8-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-8. Learning
9. Encountering Zoroastrianism: The Way of the One Wise Lord
9-1. Names for Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrians
9-2. Zoroastrianism as Shaped by Its Past
9-2a. The Birth of Zoroastrianism (ca. 630–550 B.C.E.)
9-2b. The Spread of Zoroastrianism in the Persian and Sassanian Empires (550 B.C.E.−650 C.E.)
9-2c. The Coming of Islam and the Zoroastrian Dispersion (650 C.E.−Present)
9-3. Essential Zoroastrian Teachings: Monotheism and Moral Dualism
9-3a. The One God, Ahura Mazda
9-3b. The Spirit of Destruction, Angra Mainyu
9-3c. Moral Dualism
9-3d. Supernatural Intermediaries
9-3e. Judgment and the Final Victory of Ahura Mazda
9-4. Zoroastrian Ethics
9-4a. Zoroastrian General Morality
9-4b. A Current Ethical and Social Issue: Marriage and Children
9-5. Zoroastrian Rituals
9-5a. Fires in the Fire Temple
9-5b. Interior Plan of the Fire Temple
9-5c. Priesthood
9-5d. Worship
9-5e. Other Rituals
9-5f. Funeral Rituals
9-6. Zoroastrianism around the World Today
9-7. Zoroastrianism Timeline: 1750 B.C.E.–2000 C.E.
9-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-9. Learning
10. Encountering Judaism: The Way of God’s People
10-1. The Name Judaism and Related Terms
10-2. The Jewish Present as Shaped by Its Past
10-2a. From the Creation to Abraham (ca. 2000 B.C.E.)
10-2b. The Emergence of Ancient Israel (ca. 1200–950 B.C.E.)
10-2c. The First Temple Period (950–586 B.C.E.)
10-2d. The Second Temple Period (539 B.C.E.–70 C.E.)
10-2e. Revolts and Rabbis (70 C.E.–ca. 650)
10-2f. Jews under Islamic and Christian Rule (ca. 650–1800)
10-2g. Emancipation and Diversity (1800–1932)
10-2h. The Holocaust and Its Aftermath (1932–Present)
10-3. Essential Teachings of Judaism
10-3a. Foundation of Jewish Teachings: The Tanak
10-3b. One God
10-3c. The Jews as God’s Chosen People
10-3d. Life after Death?
10-4. Essential Jewish Ethics
10-4a. Humans in the Image of God
10-4b. The Torah
10-4c. General Jewish Ethics
10-4d. Modern Jewish Ethics
10-5. Jewish Worship and Ritual
10-5a. Worship in the Synagogue
10-5b. The Sabbath
10-5c. Jewish Annual Festivals
10-5d. Kosher Food
10-5e. Circumcision, the Sign of the Covenant
10-5f. Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah
10-5g. Marriage
10-5h. Funeral Rituals
10-6. Judaism around the World Today
10-6a. Judaism in Israel
10-6b. Judaism in North America
10-7. Judaism Timeline: 2000 B.C.E.–Present
10-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-10. Learning
11. Encountering Christianity: The Way of Jesus Christ
11-1. Names
11-2. The Christian Present as Shaped by Its Past
11-2a. The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ (ca. 4 B.C.E.–30 C.E.)
11-2b. The Earliest Church (30–100 C.E.)
11-2c. The Ancient Period (100–500 C.E.)
11-2d. Byzantine, Medieval, and Renaissance Christianity (500–1500)
11-2e. Reformation in the Western Church (1500–1600)
11-2f. The Early Modern Period (1600–1900)
11-2g. Modern Christianity (1900–Present)
11-3. Christian Teachings as Reflected in the Nicene Creed
11-3a. God the Father
11-3b. God the Son
11-3c. God the Holy Spirit
11-3d. The Conclusion of the Nicene Creed: Church, Baptism, and Christian Hope
11-4. Christian Ethics: Following the Way of Jesus Christ
11-4a. Foundations in the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Letters of Paul
11-4b. The Enactment of Moral Life in the Church
11-4c. Moral Dimensions of Liberation Movements
11-5. Christian Worship and Ritual
11-5a. Foundations of Christian Worship
11-5b. The Liturgical Year
11-5c. The Christian Funeral
11-6. Christianity around the World Today
11-6a. Christianity in the Global South
11-6b. Changes in the Catholic Church under Pope Francis
11-6c. Christianity in North America
11-6d. The Different Churches in the United States: Roman Catholic and Protestant
11-7. Christianity Timeline: 27–2013 C.E.
11-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-11. Learning
12. Encountering Islam: The Straight Path of the One God
12-1. The Name Islam
12-2. Islam Today as Shaped by Its Past
12-2a. Arabia at the Time of Muhammad (500s C.E.)
12-2b. The Life and Work of Muhammad (ca. 570–632)
12-2c. Islam Immediately Following the Death of Muhammad (632–661)
12-2d. Islam from the Umayyads until Today (661–Present)
12-2e. Diverse Muslim Groups Today: Mainstream, Zealous, and Moderate
12-3. Essential Islamic Teachings
12-3a. God Is One
12-3b. Angels and Spirits
12-3c. The Qur’an
12-3d. Prophets
12-3e. People of the Book: Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians
12-3f. Final Judgment
12-4. Islamic Ethics
12-4a. The Hadith
12-4b. Shari’a
12-4c. Diet and Other Regulations
12-4d. Marriage and the Status of Women
12-4e. Jihad
12-5. Worship and Ritual: The Five Pillars of Islam
12-5a. Confession of Faith
12-5b. Prayer
12-5c. Fasting
12-5d. Almsgiving
12-5e. Pilgrimage
12-5f. The Muslim Funeral
12-6. Islam around the World Today
12-6a. Islam in Europe
12-6b. Muslim Migration to North America
12-6c. Muslim Life in the United States after 9/11
12-7. Islam Timeline: 570 C.E.–Present
12-AD. Primary Sources and Further Reading
CR-12. Learning
13. Encountering New Religious Movements: Modern Ways to Alternative Meanings
13-1. Names for This Type of Religion
13-2. Common Features of New Religious Movements
13-3. New Religious Movements in the World Today: A Survey
13-3a. NRMs in the Western World
13-3b. Asian NRMs in the West
13-3c. Scientific NRMs: Christian Science and UFO Groups
13-3d. Nature NRMs: Neo-Paganism, Wicca, and Druidry
13-3e. NRMs in Asia
13-4. An NRM from Asia: Falun Gong
13-4a. History
13-4b. Teaching and Practice
13-5. A North American NRM: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
13-5a. History
13-5b. Scripture
13-5c. Teachings
13-5d. Institutions, Practices, and Structure of the LDS Church
13-6. A North American NRM: The Nation of Islam
13-7. The Church of Scientology
13-7a. L. Ron Hubbard’s Life and Teachings
13-7b. Organization of the Church
13-7c. Controversy and Present Status
13-8. New Religious Movements Timeline: 1782–2009

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