Chambers dictionary of beliefs and religions /
Dictionary of beliefs and religions.
edited by Mark Vernon.
- Expanded and rev. ed.
- Edinburgh : Chambers, 2009.
- x, 677 p., [48] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Formerly CIP.
Machine generated contents note: PANELS -- Hot Topics -- Abortion -- Capital and corporal punishment -- Contraception -- Creationism and intelligent design -- Euthanasia -- Faith schools -- Freedom of speech -- Genetic research -- Homosexuality -- Religion and secular society -- Terrorism -- Wearing of religious symbols -- Issues in the Study of Religion -- Agnosticism -- Angels in religions -- Architecture in religions -- Art in religions -- Atheism -- Authority in religions -- Blasphemy in religions -- Cosmology -- Ecotheology -- God -- Heaven and hell -- Humankind in religions -- Iconography in religions -- Literature in religions -- Marriage and divorce in religions -- Multiculturalism -- Music in religions -- Non-believers -- Philosophy of religion -- Pilgrimage in religions -- The problem of evil -- Psychology of religion -- Religion and psychotherapy -- Saints -- Salvation in religions -- Science and religion -- Secularization -- Sex in religions -- Contents note continued: Sociology of religion -- Women in religions -- Experience of Religion -- Ablutions -- Almsgiving -- Death -- Doubt and belief -- Family -- Food and drink -- Funerary practices -- Happiness -- The meaning of life -- Meditation -- Prayer -- Retreats -- Sacred places -- Spirituality and religion -- Places of Worship -- Visiting a Buddhist temple -- Visiting a Christian church -- Visiting a Hindu temple -- Visiting a Mosque -- Visiting a Sikh Gurudwara.
Even in our high-tech world, billions of people continue to place their faith in a god, or gods, in spirits or in another form of divinity. Many adhere to beliefs outside the major faith traditions, while others see science and secular modernity as providing a sufficient basis for a meaningful life.