The Religion Factor: An Introduction to How Religion Matters

by Green, William Scott; Neusner, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9780664256883
• ISBN10: 0664256880
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

In this companion to the best-sellingWorld Religions in America: An Introduction, renowned contributors explore the importance of religion in the lives of people, communities, and nations. Their concern is not with particular doctrines within the various religious traditions, but with how real people live these traditions today and the impact this has on the larger social order.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Religion and Ethnicity	p. 3
Religion and Nationality	p. 15
Being Israel: Religion and Ethnicity in Judaism	p. 32
Linking Human Beings to Nature: Australian Arrarnta Religion	p. 45
Neopaganism in America: How Witchcraft Matters Today	p. 60
Religion and the Discovery of Self: Howard Thurman and the Tributaries of the Deep River	p. 84
Religion and Political Economy	p. 99
"We Prayed They Would Win": How Christians Become Political Activists	p. 117
Jihad: The Struggle for Islam	p. 130
Religion and Gender	p. 149
Protestantism and the European-American Family: Like Oil and Water	p. 166
Religion and Ethics	p. 186
Religion and Medicine	p. 198
Religion and Sacred Space	p. 213
Religion and Literature	p. 227
Buddhist Approaches to Death	p. 243
Conclusion: Diversity and Tolerance: Religion and American Pluralism	p. 257
Index	p. 271
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