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Author:   John L. Esposito ,  Darrell J. Fasching ,  Todd Lewis
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9780195373608

ISBN 10:   019537360
Pages:   444
Publication Date:   17 December 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION ; Globalization: World Religions in Everyone's Hometown ; Understanding Religious Experience and Its Expressions ; The Great Transition: From Tribal Life to Urban Life and the Emergence of World Religions ; The Great Religious Stories of the World ; Modernization in Global Perspective ; Modern Colonialism, the Socialist Challenge, and the End of Modernity ; Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World ; Conclusion: We Are All Heretics in the Postmodern Situation ; 2. INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS ; I. Origins of Homo Religiosus: Prehistory ; II. Indigenous Religious Traditions: Soul Belief and Afterlife ; III. Indigenous Religions Today ; 3. HINDUISM ; Encountering 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 ; 4. BUDDHISM: WAYS TO NIRVANA ; Encounter with Modernity: Socially Engaged Buddhism ; Premodern Buddhism: The Formative Era ; Premodern Buddhism: The Classical Era ; The Core Doctrines ; Premodern Buddhism: Buddhist Expansion ; Buddhism and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World ; 5. EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS: TRADITIONS OF HUMAN CULTIVATION AND NATURAL HARMONY ; Encounter with Modernity: Postcolonial Confucian ; ECONOMICS ; East Asian Religions in the Premodern Era ; East Asian Religions in the Early Modern Era ; East Asian Religions and Postmodern Trends in a Postcolonial World ; 6. ISLAM IN ASIA ; THE DAWN OF ISLAM IN ASIA ; THE ISLAMIC TRADITION ; JIHAD ; THE CHALLENGE OF EUROPEAN COLONIALISM ; 7. GLOBALIZATION: FROM NEW TO NEW AGE RELIGIONS ; New Religions ; New Age Religions ; East Goes West: Transcendental Meditation ; West Goes East: The Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon ; AND THE AUM SHINRIKYO MOVEMENT ; Religious Postmodernism and Global Ethics ; The Challenge of Postmodern Secular Relativism ; The Future of Religion in an Age of Globalization

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