Brodd invitation to world religions
Invitation to World Religions
Invitation to world religions
xx, 555, [24] pages : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: -- CHAPTER 1. AN INVITATION TO THE STUDY OF WORLD RELIGIONS -- "Religion" and the Study of World Religions -- Defining "Religion" -- What Religions Do -- Religious Questions and Challenges -- Basic Components of Religions -- Teachings -- Ways of Being -- Historical Development -- Religions in the Modern World -- Modernization -- Urbanization -- Globalization -- Multiculturalism -- Religion and Science -- An Academic Approach to the Study of Religions -- Balance -- Empathy -- Comparative Approaches -- CHAPTER 2. INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS OF NORTH AMERICA -- The Teachings of Native American Indigenous Religions -- Creation and Origins -- Life Lessons in Myths -- The Importance of Balance: Humanity and the Natural World -- Sacred Language and Sacred Time -- VOICES: An Interview with Lin Estes -- Native American Indigenous Religions as a Way of Being -- Healing -- Rites of Passage -- Rites of Renewal and Rites of Purification -- The History of Native American Indigenous Religions -- Conquest, Colonization, and Christianity -- Resistance Movements --
Invitation to World Religions
Featuring a unique, consistent, and modular chapter structure--"Teachings," "History," and "Way of Life"--and numerous pedagogical features, Invitation to World Religions, Third Edition, invites students to explore the world's great religions with respect and a sense of wonder. This chapter structure enables students to navigate each religion in a consistent and systematic way and to make comparisons between religions. The book describes the essential features of each religion and shows how they have responded to basic human needs and to the cultural contexts in which they developed. The authors also encourage students to develop an appreciation for what religious beliefs and practices actually mean to their adherents.
LAW AND RELIGION FORUM
We close this week’s book posts with a comparative religion textbook that Oxford released earlier this year. The book is Invitation to World Religions, by John Brodd (CSU-Sacramento) and others, now in its third edition. Here’s the description from the Oxford website:
Featuring a unusual, consistent, and modular chapter structure–“Teachings,” “History,” and “Way of Life”–and numerous pedagogical features, Invitation to Earth Religions, Third Edition, invites students to explore the world’s great religions with respect and a feeling of wonder. This chapter structure enables students to navigate each religion in a consistent and systematic way and to build comparisons between religions. The guide describes the essential features of each religion and shows how they have responded to basic human needs and to the cultural contexts in which they developed. The authors also promote students to develop an appreciation for what religious beliefs and practices actually mean to their adherents.
Like this:
LikeLoading...
Jeffrey Brodd, Layne Little, Bradley Nystrom, Robert Platzner, Richard Shek and Erin Stiles, Invitation to Nature Religions
Ivan Strenski
2016
Six world religions. Seven scholars, at the top of their games --Hinduism (Wendy Doniger), Buddhism (Donald S. Lopez, Jr.), Daoism (James Robson), Judaism (David Biale), Christianity (Lawrence S. Cunningham), and Islam (Jane Dammen McAuliffe). Together with general editor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Jack Miles, they have collaborated in amassing the 4,329 page, two volume Norton Anthology of World Religions (hereafter NAWR). Whew! Luckily, for our sway-backed students, weighed down by their bulging backpacks, W. W. Norton and Company have promised paperbacks for each individual religion by winter 2016. Some other reviewers have queried the necessitate and rationale for what they see as yet another compendium of the great religious texts. We can answer this "why?" question partly by considering an answer to the "what?" doubt. What's in the NAWR? Compared to typical anthologies from the past, this collection really exploits the tremendous progress made