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Chambers dictionary of beliefs and religions / edited by Mark Vernon.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Edinburgh : Chambers, 2009.Edition: Expanded and rev. edDescription: x, 677 p., [48] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780550103444 (hbk.)
  • 0550103449 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Dictionary of beliefs and religions [Portion of title]
Uniform titles:
  • Dictionary of beliefs and religions.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.3/CHA 22
  • 291.03 22
LOC classification:
  • BL31 .D53 2009
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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