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PublisherPearson Education

ISBN-10013600380X

ISBN-139780136003809

eBay Product ID (ePID)23038292789

Product Key Features

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAnatomy of the Sacred : an Introduction to Religion

SubjectComparative Religion, General

Publication Year2008

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion

AuthorJames Livingston

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight21.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number6

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2008-024504

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal200

Table Of ContentAnatomy of the Sacred: An Introduction to Religion, 6th Edition PART I) THE STUDY OF RELIGION: 1) What is Religion? 2) Ways of Studying Religion PART II) UNIVERSAL FORMS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND EXPRESSION 3) The Sacred and the Holy 4) Sacred Symbol, Myth, and Doctrine 5) Sacred Ritual 6) Sacred Scripture 7) Society and the Sacred: The Social Formations and Transformations of Religion PART III) UNIVERSAL COMPONENTS OF A RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEW 8) Deity: Concepts of the Divine and Ultimate Reality 9) Cosmogony: Origins of the Natural and Social Order 10) Views of the Human Problem 11) Theodicy: Encountering Evil 12) Ethics: Patterns of Moral Action 13) Soteriology: Ways and Goals of Salvation and Liberation PART IV) THE SACRED AND THE SECULAR IN MODERNITY 14) Secularization - New Religious Revitalization Movements - COntemporary Religious Fundamentalism 15) Contemporary Challenges to Traditional Religion: The Status and the Roles of Women - Relations Between Religion and the State

SynopsisFor one-semester, undergraduate courses in Introduction to Religion and Comparative Religion, and more advanced courses dealing with issues in the theoretical study of religion. This comprehensive introduction to the nature and variety of religious phenomena, belief, and practice (1) explores the issues in religious studies, (2) examines the universal forms of religious experience, (3) offers a cross-cultural study of a broad range of classic types of religious belief and practice in terms of the seven basic concepts of a religious world view, and (4) surveys the challenges faced by religions today., For one-semester, undergraduate courses in Introduction to Religion and Comparative Religion. This comprehensive text introduces students to the nature and variety of religious phenomena, belief, and practice. It shows the ways religion is studied, a cross-cultural study of the variety of history forms of religious belief and practice, such as deity conceptions at the divine myth, ritual scripture, rites of passage, views of the human problem evil, and the ways and goals of an examination of the challenges faced by religion today.

LC Classification NumberBL48