World religions today /John L. Esposito, Darrell J. Fasching, Todd Lewis.
Description
Introduction. Globalization : world religions in everyone's hometown ; Why study world religions? ; Our task ; Understanding religious experience and its formative elements ; The great religious stories of the world ; Historical overview : from premodern to postmodern ; The modern/postmodern transition : colonialism, the socialist challenge, and the end of modernity ; Postmodern trends in a postcolonial world ; We are all heretics in the postmodern situation -- Indigenous religions. Origins of Homo religious : prehistory ; Religion's origins among hunter-gatherers ; Indigenous religious traditions : soul belief and afterlife Shamans : "technicians of the sacred" ; Indigenous religions today -- The many stories of Judaism : sacred and secular. Encounter with modernity : modern Judaisms and the challenge of ultra-orthodoxy ; Premodern Judaism : the formative era (2000 BCE-500 CE) ; Premodern Judaism : the classical era (500 CE-1729 CE) ; Judaism and modernity (1729-1967) ; Judaism and postmodern trends in a postcolonial world (1967- ) -- Christian diversity and the road to modernity. Encounter with modernity : the fundamentalist-modernist controversy (1859- ) ; Premodern Christianity : the formative era (31-451 CE) ; Premodern Christianity : the classical era (451-1517 CE) ; Christianity and modernity (1517-1962) ; Christianity and postmodern trends in a postcolonial world (1962- ) -- Islam : the many faces of the Muslim experience. Encounter with modernity : the challenge of Western colonialism ; Premodern Islam : the formative era ; Premodern Islam : the classical era ; Islam and modernity ; Islam and postmodern trends in a postcolonial world ; Islam: postmodern challenges -- Hinduism and other South Asian religions : myriad paths to liberation. Defining Hinduism : unity, diversity, localities ; Encounter with modernity : Hindu challenges to India as a secular state ; Premodern Hinduism : the formative era ; Premodern Hinduism : the classical era (180 BCE-900 CE) ; Premodern Hinduism : the postclassical era (900 CE-1500 CE) ; Hinduism and modernity ; Hinduism and postmodern trends in a postcolonial world ; Hindu festival practice ; The religious institutions of contemporary Hinduism -- Buddhism: paths toward Nirvana. Encounter with modernity : socially "engaged Buddhism" ; Premodern Buddhism: the formative era (600 BCE-100 CE) ; Premodern Buddhism : the classical era (100-800 CE) ; Premodern Buddhism : Buddhist expansion (400-1500 CE) ; Buddhism and modernity ; Buddhism and postmodern trends in a postcolonial world -- East Asian religions : traditions of human cultivation and natural harmony. Geographical orientation ; Encounter with modernity : the fall and return of Confucianism ; East Asian religions in the formative era (1500 BCE-200 CE) ; East Asian religions in the early modern era ; East Asian religions and postmodern trends in a postcolonial world ; Have we entered a third Confucian age? -- Globalization : from new to New Age religions. Encounter with modernity : the challenge of global diversity to the "purity" of tradition ; New religions ; New Age religions The postmodern challenge : Can there be a global ethic in a world of religious diversity?
xv, 609 pages :color illustrations, color maps;24 cm
Book Details
Author
Esposito, John L.
Place Published
City
New York, N.Y.
Publication Subjects
Religions--Textbooks.
Call No.
BL80.3 .E88 2012
ISBN
9780199759514, 0199759510
LCCN
2011033017
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier
Media type: unmediatednrdamedia
Date: [2012]
Publication Info: {copy}2012