Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions

Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions
Author: Joan Price
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-02-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780826423542

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Price examines religions across the world, offering an insight into each tradition's views of the world, through their scriptural texts and spiritual practices.

Scriptures of the World s Religions

Scriptures of the World s Religions
Author: James Fieser,John Powers
Publsiher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1998
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0070209782

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Also issued in two separate volumes under titles: Scriptures of the East and Scriptures of the West.

World Scripture

World Scripture
Author: Andrew Wilson
Publsiher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 8120810961

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World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts is a topical journey through the sacred writings of the world`s great religions. Comparing religious beliefs on similar themes demonstrates the existence of a vast sphere of spiritual common ground.

God s Breath

God s Breath
Author: John Miller,Aaron Kenedi
Publsiher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2000-09-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1569246181

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For millennia seekers of truth have found God in a handful of sacred texts. Now God's Breath gathers together selections from seven of the world's major wisdom traditions. The title comes from a Zen saying, "To understand God is to listen. Listen to Jesus and Muhammad and Buddha, but don't get caught up in the names. Listen beyond them; listen to God's breath." Elegantly presented with detailed woodcuts and enlightening introductions by noted scholars, leading thinkers, writers and spiritual teachers including Huston Smith, Karen Armstrong, Reynolds Price, Stephen Mitchell, Marcus Borg, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, the Dalai Lama, and others, the selections include excerpts from the Book of Genesis, the Tao Te Ching, the Book of Rumi, the Gospel of John, the Bhagavad Gita, the Qur'an, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. "A valuable compendium of sacred texts.... This is an essential companion for students of world religions."--Publishers Weekly

The World s Wisdom

The World s Wisdom
Author: Philip Novak
Publsiher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2011-10-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780062010841

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A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources! In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind. Authentic, poetic translations of key texts are coupled with insightful introductions and "grace notes."

The Message and the Book

The Message and the Book
Author: John Bowker,Atlantic Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd.
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780300179293

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Grand in its sweep, this survey of the sacred writings of the major religions of the world offers a thoughtful introduction to the ideas and beliefs upon which great faiths are built. Under the expert guidance of John Bowker, a religious scholar and author of international stature, readers explore the key texts of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Confucian, Daoist, and Shinto traditions. The author discusses some 400 books, among them such well-known sacred texts as the Bible and the Quran, but also spiritual writings by theologians, philosophers, poets, and others. Bowker provides clear and illuminating commentary on each text, describing the content and core tenets of the work and quoting pertinent passages. He also sets the writings in religious and historical contexts, showing how they have influenced—and in many cases continue to influence—artistic, musical, literary, and political traditions. The Message and the Book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the meaning and the deep significance of primary religious texts of civilizations around the globe.

The Death of Sacred Texts

The Death of Sacred Texts
Author: Kristina Myrvold
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781317036401

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The Death of Sacred Texts draws attention to a much neglected topic in the study of sacred texts: the religious and ritual attitudes towards texts which have become old and damaged and can no longer be used for reading practices or in religious worship. This book approaches religious texts and scriptures by focusing on their physical properties and the dynamic interactions of devices and habits that lie beneath and within a given text. In the last decades a growing body of research studies has directed attention to the multiple uses and ways people encounter written texts and how they make them alive, even as social actors, in different times and cultures. Considering religious people seem to have all the motives for giving their sacred texts a respectful symbolic treatment, scholars have paid surprisingly little attention to the ritual procedures of disposing and renovating old texts. This book fills this gap, providing empirical data and theoretical analyses of historical and contemporary religious attitudes towards, and practices of text disposals within, seven world religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Exploring the cultural and historical variations of rituals for religious scriptures and texts (such as burials, cremations and immersion into rivers) and the underlying beliefs within the religious traditions, this book investigates how these religious practices and stances respond to modernization and globalization processes when new technologies have made it possible to mass-produce and publish religious texts on the Internet.

Sacred Word and Sacred Text

Sacred Word and Sacred Text
Author: Harold G. Coward
Publsiher: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1988
Genre: Sacred books
ISBN: UVA:X001357171

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