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  1. African Religion

    The study of African religion has recently become a special field of inquiry with a sizable body of literature containing a wide variety of...
    S. A. Nigosian in World Faiths
    Chapter 1994

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    Michael Pye in Macmillan Dictionary of Religion
    Chapter 1994

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    Michael Pye in Macmillan Dictionary of Religion
    Chapter 1994

  4. Hinduism

    The chief concern of those of Hindu religious conviction is not the existence or nonexistence of God, or whether there is one God or many gods....
    S. A. Nigosian in World Faiths
    Chapter 1994

  5. Roots of Western Religions

    No area in the world has played a more important role in human affairs, or has been as often and as bitterly contested, as has the Middle East....
    S. A. Nigosian in World Faiths
    Chapter 1994

  6. Introduction

    The word ‘Zen’ may conjure up images of monks sitting quietly in meditation, oblivious to the world around them. Or it may elicit associations to tea...
    Christopher Ives in Zen Awakening and Society
    Chapter 1992

  8. (Orthodox) Religious Revival and (Russian) Nationalism

    The concepts of nation and nationalism are controversial and difficult to define. If we were discussing national tensions in the USSR in general, our...
    Dimitry V. Pospielovsky in Soviet Studies on the Church and the Believer’s Response to Atheism
    Chapter 1988

  9. Angels and Other Ministers of the Grace of God

    The concept of angels and other divine emissaries whose functions include hel** humans is ancient and widespread in the major religions of the...
    Geddes Macgregor in Reincarnation as a Christian Hope
    Chapter 1982

  10. A Preliminary Stocktaking

    In the first three chapters a historical survey has been given of developments in Indonesia since 1945 and the role of Islam as a constituent of...
    B. J. Boland in The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia
    Chapter 1982

  11. The Nature and Importance of the Question

    Reincarnation is by any reckoning an odd and alien, not to say exotic, concept to most Christian minds. The notion is strange, foreign-sounding, even...
    Geddes Macgregor in Reincarnation as a Christian Hope
    Chapter 1982

  12. The Monuments — I: Constantine to Justin I

    It is appropriate that this survey of the Early Byzantine churches of Macedonia and the territory extending immediately to its north should start,...
    R. F. Hoddinott in Early Byzantine Churches in Macedonia and Southern Serbia
    Chapter 1963

  13. A Preliminary Stocktaking

    In the first three chapters a historical survey has been given of developments in Indonesia since 1945 and the role of Islam as a constituent of...
    B. J. Boland in The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia
    Chapter 1971

  14. Religion and Civilisation

    ATTENTION must now be turned to the Arabian peninsula, the birthplace of the religious tradition of Islam, today found in countries as diverse as...
    Trevor Ling in A History of Religion East and West
    Chapter 1968

  15. The Divine Order

    The descendants of the first men who sprang from the Tree of Life are the sacred people of the total godhead. They came into existence by its will,...
    Hans Schärer in Ngaju Religion
    Chapter 1963

  16. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215)

    The Fourth Latcran Council, convoked in 1215 by Pope Innocent III, represents the medieval Church’s most determined and far-reaching effort to...
    Marshall W. Baldwin in Christianity through the Thirteenth Century
    Chapter 1970
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