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Tables of Contents for Anatomy Of The Sacred
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Part I The Study of Religion
1 What Is Religion? How Is It Studied?
3
34
Overview
3
1
Defining Religion
4
7
Why Are Humans Religious?
11
1
Why Study Religion?
12
3
The Perspective of the Student-Commitment and Objectivity
15
4
The Ways Religion Is Studied
19
8
Historiography
21
1
Anthropology
21
2
Sociology
23
1
Philosophy
24
2
Phenomenology
26
1
Interpreting and Explaining Religion
27
4
Notes
31
1
Key Words
32
1
Review Questions
32
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
33
4
Part II Universal Forms of Religious Experience and Expression
37
126
2 The Sacred and the Holy
39
19
Overview
39
1
The Concept of Sacred Power
40
1
The Ambivalence of Sacred Power
40
2
The Holy as Mysterium Tremendum and Fascinans
42
4
Sacred Space and Sacred Time
46
8
The Buddhist Stupa and Pagoda as Sacred Space
48
3
Mount Zion as Sacred Space
51
3
Religion as Ultimate Concern
54
1
Notes
55
1
Key Words
56
1
Review Questions
56
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
57
1
3 Sacred Symbol, Myth, and Doctrine
58
22
Overview
58
1
Symbolic Communication
59
1
Religious Symbols
60
4
Metaphor, Parable, and Story
64
4
Religious Myth
68
6
Functionalist Theory of Myth
70
1
A Psychotherapeutic Theory of Myth
71
2
A Phenomenological Interpretation
73
1
Models and Doctrines
74
3
Notes
77
1
Key Words
78
1
Review Questions
78
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
79
1
4 Sacred Ritual
80
24
Overview
80
1
Ritual Action
81
3
Types of Sacred Ritual
84
11
Life-Cycle Rites
85
6
Life-Crisis Rites: A Healing Ritual
91
1
Calendar or Seasonal Rituals
92
3
Ritual and Sacrifice
95
4
Rituals as Sacraments
99
2
Notes
101
1
Key Words
102
1
Review Questions
102
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
102
2
5 Sacred Scripture
104
31
Overview
104
1
The Pervasive Role of Sacred Scripture
105
3
Using the Term Scripture
108
1
Some Distinctive Features of Sacred Scripture
109
3
The Authority and Canonicity of Scripture
112
4
The Reception and Uses of Scripture
116
5
The Interpretation of Scripture
121
11
Buddhist Interpretation
122
5
Christian Biblical Interpretation
127
5
Notes
132
1
Key Words
133
1
Review Questions
133
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
134
1
6 Society and the Sacred: The Social Formations and Transformations of Religion
135
28
Overview
135
1
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Religion and Society
136
1
Types of Religious Communities
137
3
Natural Religious Communities
138
2
Voluntary Religious Communities
140
3
Founded Religions
141
2
Protest and Change in Voluntary Religious Communities
143
4
Reform from within the Church
144
2
Separation from the Church-Type Community
146
1
The Sect
147
2
The Cult: New Religious Movements
149
10
The New Age: Toward Self Discovery
151
5
The Unification Church-the "Moonies"
156
3
Notes
159
1
Key Words
160
1
Review Questions
160
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
161
2
Part III Universal Components of a Religious Worldview
163
190
7 Deity: Concepts of the Divine and Ultimate Reality
165
31
Overview
165
1
Polytheism and the Worship of Nature
166
9
Sky Gods
168
1
Mother Goddesses
169
6
Dualism
175
4
Chinese Yin-Yang
175
1
Dualism of Cosmic Struggle
176
3
Pantheism and Monism
179
4
Monotheism
183
9
Notes
192
1
Key Words
192
1
Review Questions
193
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
193
3
8 Cosmogony: Origins of the Natural and Social Order
196
27
Overview
196
1
The Practical Basis of Cosmogony
197
2
Emergence or Procreation from a Primal Substance or Being
199
1
The Sexual Union of a Primal Male and Female
200
2
Creation by Conflict and the Ordering of Chaos
202
5
Creation by a Divine Craftsman
207
2
Creation by Decree or from Nothing
209
4
The Rejection of Cosmogonic Speculation
213
2
Cosmogony Today
215
5
The Anthropic Principle
217
3
Notes
220
1
Key Words
221
1
Review Questions
221
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
222
1
9 Anthropology: The Human Problem
223
24
Overview
223
1
Modern Views of Our Human Plight
224
2
Stoicism
226
3
Christianity
229
5
Theravada Buddhism
234
4
Confucianism
238
5
Notes
243
1
Key Words
244
1
Review Questions
245
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
245
2
10 Theodicy: Encountering Evil
247
26
Overview
247
2
The Persistent Demand for Theodicy
249
1
Theodicy of "Mystical Participation"
250
1
A Future, This-Worldly Theodicy
251
4
Other-Worldly Theodicy
255
2
Dualism
257
1
The Karma-Samsara Theodicy
258
2
Monotheistic Theodicies
260
10
Suffering as Recompense for Sin
261
1
Suffering as a Test and as a Necessary Condition of "Soul-Making"
262
3
A Theodicy of Submission: The Mystery of God's Sovereignty
265
3
Process Theodicy
268
1
A Theodicy of Protest
269
1
Notes
270
1
Key Words
271
1
Review Questions
271
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
272
1
11 Ethics: Patterns of Moral Action
273
28
Overview
273
1
Virtues and Obligations
274
2
The Sources and Norms of Moral Authority
276
21
Cosmic or Natural Law
276
6
Charismatic Leaders
282
6
An Ethics of Divine Command
288
9
Notes
297
1
Key Words
298
1
Review Questions
299
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
299
2
12 Soteriology: Ways and Goals of Salvation and Liberation
301
52
Ways of Salvation and Liberation
301
1
The Way of Grace through Faith
302
6
Martin Luther
303
3
Amida Buddhism-Shinran
306
2
The Way of Devotion
308
3
The Way of Action and Obligation
311
9
Hinduism
312
2
Islam
314
4
Judaism
318
2
The Way of Meditation and Insight
320
5
The Yoga Techniques of Patanjali
321
2
Theravada Buddhism
323
2
Goals of Salvation and Liberation
325
1
Psychic Wholeness and a Healthy Social Order
326
8
A Messianic, or Utopian, Age
330
1
Ancient Israel's Messianic Hope
330
4
Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life
334
8
Immortality in Ancient Egypt and Greece
336
2
Postbiblical Judaism and Christianity
338
4
Samadhi and Nirvana
342
6
Hindu Samadhi
343
3
Buddhist Nirvana 344 Notes
346
2
Key Words
348
1
Review Questions
349
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
350
3
Part IV The Sacred and the Secular in Modernity
353
38
13 The Sacred and the Secular in Modernity
355
36
Overview
355
1
Secularization and Pluralism
356
2
The Reactions of Religious Fundamentalisms Today
358
1
The Characteristics of Contemporary Religious Fundamentalism
359
17
American Protestant Fundamentalism
360
5
Contemporary Islamic Fundamentalism
365
11
The Role of Women in Modern Christianity
376
4
The Role of Women in Islam
380
4
Notes
384
2
Key Words
386
1
Review Questions
386
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
387
4
Glossary
391
12
Index
403