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Title

The ways of religion : an introduction to the major traditions / edited by Roger Eastman.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Eastman, Roger.

Description

xvi, 535 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Revised and updated, the third edition of this highly acclaimed anthology surveys all the major religious traditions--Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and African religions--and also covers Zen Buddhism, Shinto, and the religious experience in America. Ideal for courses in world religions and comparative religion, it introduces the unique claims, hopes, and wisdom of each tradition in its own voice, through substantial excerpts from its scriptures, prophets, and authors. "I have tried to pay heed," Eastman writes in his Preface, "to A.C. Bouquet's warning of many years ago that the study of religion may sink to the level of collecting dead insects or pressed flowers, which in the process lose all their color and reality. There is not much excuse for a dreary book about a subject as inherently interesting and provocative as the world's religions."

Subjects

• Religions
• religions (belief systems, cultures)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction : Frontiers of Encounter / Diana L. Eck -- Part I. Hinduism : Himalayas of the Soul -- The Hindu View of Life / Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -- Hymns from the Rig Veda / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (translator) -- Selections, The Upanishads / Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester (translators) -- Selections, Bhagavad-Gita / Barbara Stoler Miller (translator) -- Yoga : The Discipline of Freedom / Barbara Stoler Miller -- Chudala / R.K. Narayan -- I Am But a Seeker After Truth / Mahatma Gandhi -- Part II. Buddhism : Enlightenment, Compassion, Nirvana -- The Roar of Awakening / Heinrich Zimmer (translator) -- Buddhahood / Heinrich Zimmer -- Selections, Buddhist Scriptures / Edward Conze, John Ross Carter and Mahinda Palihawadana (translators) -- Buddhaghosa on the Recollection of Death / Edward Conze (translator) -- The Mahayana and the Ideal of Bodhisattva / Ananda Coomaraswamy -- Buddhism As a Way of Life / Walpola Rahula -- Holder of the White Lotus / The Dalai Lama -- Part III. Zen Buddhism : The Sound of One Hand -- The Essence of Zen / D.T. Suzuki -- Zen Dust : The Koan / Ruth Fuller Sasaki -- Han-shan and Cold Mountain / Gary Snyder (translator) -- Hakuin : Poor Hole-Dwelling Devil / Philip B. Yampolsky (translator) -- Be Like a Frog / Shunryu Suzuki -- Part IV. Confucianism : An Ideal of Moral Order -- Confucius and the Struggle for Human Happiness / H.G. Creel -- Selections, The Analects / Arthur Waley (translator) -- Selections, The Book of Mencius / W.A.C.H. Dobson (translator) -- Confucian Self-Realization / Tu Wei-ming -- Confucianism in Perspective / Julia Ching -- A Confucian Metaphor, The Holy Vessel / Herbert Fingarette -- Part V. Taoism : The Way to Do Is to Be -- The Old Master and His Book / Frederic Spiegelberg -- Selections, Tao Te Ching / Gia-fu Feng and Jane English (translators) -- Selections, Chuang Tzu / Thomas Merton -- The Chinese Mind : Its Taoist Substratum / Lin Tung-chi -- Tao Now / Huston Smith -- Part VI. Shinto : The Way of the Kami -- Shinto and Japan : An Overview / Edwin O. Reischauer -- The Way of the Kami / Joseph M. Kitagawa -- The True Way / Motoori Norinaga -- Beginnings, Births, Fertility, and Festivals / Ian Reader -- Glimpses of Shinto / Lafcadio Hearn -- Part VII. Judaism : The Sanctification of Life -- What Is Judaism? / Nicholas de Lange -- Nothing Is Ordinary / Louis Finkelstein -- Selections, The Holy Scriptures / The Jewish Publication Society -- The Essential Talmud / Adin Steinsaltz -- Jewish Mystical Tales / Howard Schwartz -- Holocaust / Emil L. Fackenheim -- Part VIII. Christianity : Taking Up The Cross -- Ways of Being Religious in the New Testament / Norman Perrin -- Selections, The New Testament / New Revised Standard Version -- The Gospel of Thomas / Thomas O. Lambdin (translator) -- Selections, The Confessions / St. Augustine -- The Anguish of Being a Christian / Soren Kierkegaard -- Seeds of Contemplation / Thomas Merton -- On the Road to Damascus / Rita Dove -- Part IX. Islam : The Straight Path -- Muhammad, Prophet of God / John L. Esposito -- Selections, The Koran / A.J. Arberry (translator) -- The Qur'anic Teaching / Fazlur Rahman -- Deliverance from Error / Al-Ghazali -- Moments of the Religious Life / Isma'il R. Farugi -- Male and Female in Islamic Perspective / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Part X. African Traditional Religions : The Dawn of All Things -- Errors of Terminology / E. Bolaji Idowu -- Traditional African Religion / Vincent Mulago -- God in African Belief / E. Geoffrey Parrinder -- Ogotemmeli and the Dawn of All Things / Marcel Griaule -- Divinities, Spirits, and the Living Dead / John S. Mbiti -- Part XI. Religion in America : A Sampler -- Frontier Preacher / Peter Cartwright -- The Faith of the Latter-day Saints / Joseph Smith -- Christian Science / Mary Baker Eddy -- The Souls of Black Folk / W.E.B. DuBois -- The Spiritual Values of Native Americans / Joseph Epes Brown -- Epilogue : A Personal Note / John Hick.

ISBN

• 0195118359
• 9780195118353

LCCN

98027306

OCLC

• ocm39262009
• 39262009
• SCSB-571440

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library