Preface | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Globalization: World Religions in Everyone's Hometown | p. 3 |
Why Study World Religions? | p. 5 |
Our Task | p. 6 |
Understanding Religious Experience and Its Formative Elements | p. 7 |
The Great Religious Stories of the World | p. 18 |
Historical Overview: From Premodern to Postmodern | p. 25 |
The Modern/Postmodern Transition: Colonialism, the Socialist Challenge, and the End of Modernity | p. 29 |
Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World | p. 33 |
Conclusion: We Are All Heretics in the Postmodern Situation | p. 34 |
Discussion Questions | p. 34 |
Key Terms | p. 35 |
Notes | p. 35 |
Indigenous Religions | p. 37 |
Overview | p. 37 |
Origins of Homo religiosus: Prehistory | p. 38 |
Religion's Origins Among Hunter-Gatherers | p. 41 |
Indigenous Religious Traditions: Soul Belief and Afterlife | p. 48 |
Shamans: "Technicians of the Sacred" | p. 54 |
Indigenous Religions Today | p. 62 |
Conclusion | p. 70 |
Discussion Questions | p. 71 |
Key Terms | p. 72 |
Suggested Readings | p. 72 |
Notes | p. 73 |
Additional Resources | p. 73 |
The Many Stories of Judaism: Sacred and Secular | p. 75 |
Overview | p. 75 |
Encounter with Modernity: Modern Judaisms and the Challenge of Ultra-Orthodoxy | p. 79 |
Premodern Judaism: The Formative Era (2000 BCE-500 CE) | p. 83 |
Premodern Judaism: The Classical Era (500 CE-1729 CE) | p. 101 |
Judaism and Modernity (1729-1967) | p. 115 |
Judaism and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World (1967-) | p. 128 |
Conclusion | p. 142 |
Discussion Questions | p. 143 |
Key Terms | p. 144 |
Suggested Readings | p. 144 |
Notes | p. 145 |
Additional Resources | p. 145 |
Christian Diversity and the Road to Modernity | p. 147 |
Overview | p. 147 |
Encounter with Modernity: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy (1859-) | p. 152 |
Premodern Christianity: The Formative Era (31-451 CE) | p. 157 |
Premodern Christianity: The Classical Era (451-1517 CE) | p. 172 |
Christianity and Modernity (1517-1962) | p. 182 |
Christianity and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World (1962-) | p. 199 |
Conclusion | p. 209 |
Discussion Questions | p. 212 |
Key Terms | p. 212 |
Suggested Readings | p. 213 |
Additional Resources | p. 213 |
Islam: The Many Faces of the Muslim Experience | p. 215 |
Overview | p. 215 |
Encounter with Modernity: The Challenge of Western Colonialism | p. 221 |
Premodern Islam: The Formative Era | p. 224 |
Premodern Islam: The Classical Era | p. 238 |
Islam and Modernity | p. 259 |
Islam and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World | p. 265 |
Islam: Postmodern Challenges | p. 285 |
Conclusion | p. 292 |
Discussion Questions | p. 292 |
Key Terms | p. 293 |
Suggested Readings | p. 294 |
Notes | p. 295 |
Additional Resources | p. 295 |
Globalization: From New to New Age Religions | p. 297 |
Overview | p. 297 |
Encounter with Modernity: The Challenge of Global Diversity to the "Purity" of Tradition | p. 299 |
New Religions | p. 300 |
New Age Religions | p. 307 |
Conclusion: The Postmodern Challenge-Can There Be a Global Ethic in a World of Religious Diversity? | p. 321 |
Discussion Questions | p. 334 |
Suggested Readings | p. 334 |
Notes | p. 335 |
Additional Resources | p. 333 |
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