The world's religions

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface to the Second Edition = 8
• Introduction = 10
• The Importance of Understanding the World's Worldviews = 10
• The Nature of a Religion = 11
• The Nature of Secular Worldviews = 22
• Roots, Formation, and Reformation = 26
• PART Ⅰ
• TIMELINE = 30
• 1 Earliest Religion = 32
• The Problem of Origins = 32
• The Patterns of Prehistoric Life = 36
• 2 South Asia = 43
• India's Diversity = 43
• The Ingredients of Indian Religion = 46
• The Early Period = 51
• The Preclassical Period = 53
• Buddhism = 57
• $$S'$$ramanic Alternatives = 68
• Brahmanism, or the Religion of the Upanishads = 72
• Therav$$\bar a$$da Buddhism = 75
• The Rise of the M$$\bar a$$h$$\bar a$$yana = 81
• Classical Hinduism : its Main Shape = 87
• Buddhism Spreads North : the Tebetan Experience = 91
• The Goddess and Hindu Tantra = 95
• Islam in India = 95
• Regional Movements = 97
• The Indian Tradition in the Classical and Medieval Periods = 102
• 3 China = 106
• A General Perspective = 106
• The Early Period = 112
• The Classical Period = 121
• Buddhism Comes to China = 124
• The Medieval Period = 129
• The Korean Contribution = 132
• 4 Japan = 134
• The Main Lines of Japanese Religion = 134
• The Early Period : Kami and Foreign Influences = 136
• The Preclassical Period = 138
• The Classical Period = 142
• Japanese Classical and Premodern Religion = 151
• 5 Southeast Asia = 155
• Regional Patterns = 155
• The Therav$$\bar a$$da and the Classical Period = 159
• The Contribution of Southeast Asia to Religious History = 164
• 6 The Pacific = 166
• The Pacific Experience = 166
• Dimensions of Polynesian Religion = 169
• Melanesian Religion : Some Patterns = 174
• Micronesia = 177
• Australia : the Land of the Dreaming = 178
• 7 The America = 181
• A Wide Scene = 181
• The Religion of the Incas = 182
• Small-Scale Societies in South America = 184
• The Caribbean = 184
• Civilizations of Central America = 185
• North America = 191
• 8 The Ancient Near East = 197
• An Overview = 197
• Mesopotamian Religion = 199
• Ancient Egypt = 202
• Canaanite Religion = 205
• Israelite Religion = 209
• 9 Persia and Central Asia = 218
• The Unification of the Medes and Persians = 218
• Zoroastrianism = 219
• Mani and Another Use of Dualism = 226
• The Geographic Significance of Central Asia = 228
• 10 The Greek and Roman World = 230
• Greek Religion = 231
• Religions Within Religion = 234
• Roman Religion = 238
• Religion in Palestine = 243
• Jews and Christians in the Hellenistic World = 246
• The End of Graeco-Roman Religion = 255
• 11 Classical and Medieval Christianity and Judaism = 257
• The Trinity Doctrine = 257
• Roman Versus Greek Forms of the Faith = 261
• The New Life of Judaism = 269
• Medieval Christianity = 274
• Worlds that Disappeared = 282
• 12 Classical and Medieval Islam = 285
• Islam - an Overview of its Spread = 285
• The Life of the Messenger of Allah = 286
• Beyond the Early Period : the Formation of Classical Islam = 295
• The Rise of the Shi‘a and the Concept of the Imam = 300
• Medieval Islam = 302
• 13 Classical African Religions = 307
• The Configurations of Africa = 307
• Dimensions of African Religion = 309
• Some Representative Patterns = 317
• Reflections on African Religion = 322
• PART Ⅱ
• TIMELINE = 324
• 14 The Explosion of Europe and the Reforming of Christianity = 326
• The Unleashing of New Forces from Europe = 326
• The Reformation : Theology and Political Power = 331
• The Counter-Reformation and the Formation of Modern Catholicism = 344
• Enlightenment, Capitalism, and Nationalism = 345
• Jewish Emancipation and the New Europe = 347
• Russia and the New Learning; the Drive East = 352
• Modern Europe = 353
• 15 North America = 365
• A New Pluralism = 365
• The Religious Affairs of the Colonies = 366
• From the American Revolution to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century = 370
• The Effects of Mass Immigration = 372
• Evangelicals and Fundamentalists = 378
• Developments since World War Ⅱ = 385
• Liberal Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century = 391
• Reflections on American Religion = 395
• 16 South Asia and Reactions to Colonial Intervention = 397
• The Varieties of Indian Life = 397
• The R$$\bar a$$j : Challenge and Response = 404
• The Early Twentieth Century = 416
• After Independence = 425
• Reflections on Religion in South Asia in Modern Times = 429
• 17 China and Korea in Modern Times = 435
• The Chinese Predicament in Colonial Times = 435
• Mao and New China = 443
• The Chinese Diaspora = 449
• Modern Korean Religion = 449
• 18 Modern Southeast Asia = 455
• Southeast Asia and the Colonial Period = 455
• Thailand and the Process of Modernization = 456
• The Burmese Solution : Withdrawal from the World = 459
• Cambodia and the Purification of Kampuchea = 460
• Vietman and the Long Struggle Against Foreign Domination = 462
• The Singapore Experiment in Welfare Capitalism = 465
• Reflections on the Southeast Asian Scene = 465
• 19 Japan in Modern Times = 467
• Into Seclusion = 467
• Opening Up and Inner Transformation = 469
• Japanese New Religions = 474
• Nationalism in Japan and its Aftermath = 479
• Does an Overall Japanese Worldview Exist? = 481
• 20 Islam Passes through the Shadows = 484
• Setbacks and Responses = 484
• Nationalism and the Islamic Anticolonial Struggle = 488
• Iran and the Backlash Against Modernization = 495
• Islam Beyond the Middle East = 498
• Reflections on Modern Islam = 503
• 21 The Colonial Impact in the Pacific = 508
• The Opening Up of the Pacific by Europeans = 508
• Australia and New Zealand = 510
• Melanesia and the Cargo Cults = 514
• The Pacific Way = 517
• 22 Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union = 521
• Russia : Expansion and Revolution = 521
• Varieties of Marxism = 522
• Religion in the Soviet Union = 528
• Soviet Atheism = 529
• The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Subsequent Events = 532
• 23 Africa in the Modern World = 536
• The European Impact = 536
• The Penetration of Christianity into Black Africa = 541
• Islam South of the Sahara = 544
• Ethiopia and its Ancient Christian History = 545
• New Religious Movements in Modern Africa = 546
• Reflections on Black Africa = 551
• 24 Latin America and the Caribbean = 555
• The Spirit of the Conquest = 555
• The Liberation of Latin America = 563
• Religion and Race = 566
• Reflections on the Latin American and Caribbean Scene = 569
• 25 Reflections on the Twentieth Century = 572
• The Unity of Religions? = 581
• Diapsoras in the Modern World = 586
• Worldview Analysis and Plural Societies = 588
• Glossary = 593
• Bibliography = 597
• Credits = 600
• Index = 601