| Publication |
New York, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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| Description |
240pBlack spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Provides a unique view of the world's religions in their geographical context.
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| Contents |
RELIGION TODAY -
Religion in the world today
Traditional primal religions and minority world religions today
THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF RELIGION -
Early humans
The first organized religions
The Axial Age and the first world religions
The spread of religion in the Classical world
The rise of Islam and the major world religions to 1500 CE
The rise of the West and the spread of vernacular devotional religion
New religions in the modern world
THE WORLD"S RELIGIONS -
The Hindu world:
The origins of early India
Relgious and societal change in the Gangetic Valley
The triumph of Buddhism and the emergence of empire
City life and the new religious orders 100 BCE to 350 CE
Gupta India
The triumph of Temple Hinduism
Islam and Hinduism in South Asia
British India
Independent India
Buddhism:
Early Buddhism
Later Buddhism in South Asia
The spread of Buddhism into Southeast Asia
Buddhism in Central Asia
Tibetan Buddhism
Buddhism today
East Asian traditions:
Confucianism
Daoism
Chinese Buddhism
Religions of Korea
Religions of Japan
Mainland Southeast Asia
Islam and Christianity in Asia
Indonesian relgions
The Pacific:
Primal religions of Oceania
Traditional religion in the Southwest Pacific
Christianity in the Pacific
Religion today in Austalia and the Pacific islands
The ancient near East and Europe:
Ancient Mesopotamis: Sumer and Akkad
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Palestine
Assyria and Babylonia
Ancient Greece and Magna Graecia
Zoroastrianism and its offshoots
Greece: Home of Hellenistic civilization
Roman religion
Europe prior to Christendom
Judaism:
Ancient Israel
Judaism in the Roman empire
Medieval Judaism
Judaism in early modern Europe
The emancipation of European Jewry
Zionism
Judaism in the Americas to 1939
The Holocaust
Worldwide Judaism in the late twentieth century
Christianity:
Early Christianity and its roots in Judaism
Early Christian churches in the Roman empire
The spread of Christianity East and West
Christian missions
The spread of the religious orders
Pilgrimage routes
The Crusades
Mysticism and heresy
Christian missions in the America
The reformation and its aftermath
Christianity and the Ottoman empire
Post-Reformation churches
Imperial expansion and colonial missions
Christian traditions, science and secularism
Chrisitianity today
Islam:
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Arabia at the time of Muhammad
The spread of Islam
The history of the Shi'a
The rise and spread of Sufism
The spread of Islam in South and Southeast Asia
The Ottoman Empire
Islam in Africa
Islamic modernism and Islamic revival
Modern Islam: Central Asia and China
Israel and the Arabs
The spread of Islam in the modern world
Varieties of Islam today
Africa:
Early religion in Northeast Africa
The santification of political office
Healing cults
Regional and territorial cults
African religions in the Western hemisphere
Islam and the spread of the Sufi orders
European Christian missions
Independent Christianity in Africa
Indigenous religions:
Indigenous relgions today
Indigenous relgions: three regions
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture acknowledgements
Index
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| Standard Number |
0198662351 Hb.
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