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The Ways of Religion

An Introduction to the Major Traditions
Third Edition
Edited by Roger Eastman
ISBN13: 9780195118353ISBN10: 0195118359 Paperback, 560 pages
Feb 1999,  In Stock

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560 pages; 11 halftones; 6-1/2 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-511835-3ISBN10: 0-19-511835-9
Allows each religious tradition to speak in its own voice, with excerpts from scriptures and distinguished authors

Table of Contents

Preface
PROLOGUE
Introduction
Frontiers of Encounter , Diana L. Eck
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
II. BUDDHISM: Enlightenment, Compassion, Nirvana
The Roar of Awakening , Heinrich Zimmer (translator)
Buddhahood , Heinrich Zimmer
Selections, Buddhist Scriptures, , Edward Conze (translator)
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
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
IV. CONFUCIANISM: An Ideal of Moral Order
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
XI. RELIGION IN AMERICA: A Sampler
Frontier Preacher , Peter Cartwright
The Faith of the Latter-day Saints , Joseph Smith
Christian Science , Mary Baker Eddy
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Spiritual Values of Native Americans , Joseph Epes Brown
EPILOGUE
Introduction
A Personal Note , John Hick