Anatomy of the Sacred: An Introduction to Religion

by Livingston, James C.

• ISBN13: 9780136003809
• ISBN10: 013600380X
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780131835641
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-21
• Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

This comprehensive introduction to the nature and variety of religious phenomena, belief, and practice (1) explores the issues in the study of religion, (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.

Table of Contents

Anatomy of the Sacred: An Introduction to Religion, 6th Edition

The Study of Religion

What is Religion?

Ways of Studying Religion

Universal Forms of Religious Experience and Expression

The Sacred and the Holy

Sacred Symbol, Myth, and Doctrine

Sacred Ritual

Sacred Scripture

Society and the Sacred: The Social Formations and Transformations of Religion

Universal Components of a Religious Worldview

Deity: Concepts of the Divine and Ultimate Reality

Cosmogony: Origins of the Natural and Social Order

Views of the Human Problem

Theodicy: Encountering Evil

Ethics: Patterns of Moral Action

Soteriology: Ways and Goals of Salvation and Liberation

The Sacred and The Secular in Modernity

Secularization - New Religious Revitalization Movements - COntemporary Religious Fundamentalism

Contemporary Challenges to Traditional Religion: The Status and the Roles of Women - Relations Between Religion and the State

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