Throught the history of mankind, serious thinkers in various parts of the world viewed our human existance and sought to find some meaning in it. They expressed their thought in wise sayings that have been preserved and have come down to us. This book is a collection of some of these sayings and is offered here so that we too may ponder on the meaning of our existence and come totunderstan some…
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The Worldmark Encyclopedia of Relilgious Practices has three volumes. Volume 1 includes essays on the history, beliefs, and contemporary practices of 13 major faith groups - African Traditional Religions, Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhis,. Taoism, and Anglicanism. Reform Judaism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Vaishnavism. These assay topic…
With this study goes the authors' desire that this publication may serve to deepen the reader's understanding of new religious currents in present day Japan and thus shed some more light on the kaleidoscopic religious scene of this island empire. The New Religions - as their name indicates sufficiently - are no obsolete systems from a vanished past, appealing only to the poetic sentiment like p…
The early Austronesian inhabitants of Indonesia developed various religious beliefs that were represented in a wide range of ritual practices. These rituals expressed human concerns about crucial life issues: the agriculture cycle, birth, marriage and death. They were also concerned with understanding the place of man in the cosmos and making sense of his relationship with the deities and spiri…