Encountering Religion: An Introduction to the Religions of the World / Edition 1

by Ian S. Markham, Tinu Ruparell

Overview

This comprehensive, user-friendly text introduces students to the principal world faiths. This text is cross-referenced to and can be used in conjunction with Markham's World Religions Reader, Second Edition as a complete teaching package for comparative religion courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631206743
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/02/2001
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ian S. Markham is Professor of Theology at Liverpool Hope University College. His previous publications include Plurality and Christian Ethics (1994), and also numerous articles and reviews. In 1993 he was appointed to the Council of the Advertising Standards Authority.

Dr Tinu Ruperell is Lecturer in Theology at Liverpool Hope University College.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

1 Studying Religion: Issues in Definition and Method 1

2 Religion and Sociology 21

3 Religion and Psychology 44

4 Religion and Scripture: The Function of the Special Books of Religion 68

5 Religion, Ritual, and Culture 96

6 Religion and the Arts 117

7 Secular Humanism 139

8 Hinduism 163

9 Buddhism 190

10 Sikhism 215

11 Chiness Religion 240

12 Judaism 272

13 Shintoism 297

14 Christianity 309

15 Islam 337

Bibliography 372

Index 375