| Description |
xvi, 535 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Frontiers of Encounter, Diana L. Eck -- I. HINDUISM: Himalayas of the Soul -- The Hindu View of Life, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -- Hymns from the Rig Veda, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (translator) -- Selections, The Upanishads, Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester (translators) -- Selections, Bhagavad-Gita, Barbara Stoler Miller (translator) -- Yoga: The Discipline of Freedom, Barbara Stoler Miller -- Chudala, R. K. Narayan -- I Am But a Seeker After Truth, Mahatma Gandhi -- II. BUDDHISM: Enlightenment, Compassion, Nirvana -- The Roar of Awakening, Heinrich Zimmer (translator) -- Buddhahood, Heinrich Zimmer -- Selections, Buddhist Scriptures,, Edward Conze (translator) -- Selections, The Dhammapada -- Buddhaghosa on the Recollection of Death, Edward Conze (translator) -- The Mahayana and the Ideal of Bodhisattva, Ananda Coomaraswamy -- Buddhism As a Way of Life, Walpola Rahula -- Holder of the White Lotus, The Dalai Lama -- III. ZEN BUDDHISM: The Sound of One Hand -- The Essence of Zen, D.T. Suzuki -- Zen Dust: The Koan, Ruth Fuller Sasaki -- Han-shan and Cold Mountain, Gary Snyder (translator) -- Hakuin: Poor Hole-Dwelling Devil, Philip B. Yampolsky (translator) -- Be Like a Frog, Shunryu Suzuki -- IV. CONFUCIANISM: An Ideal of Moral Order -- Confucius and the Struggle for Human Happiness -- Selections, The Analects, Arthur Waley (translator) -- Selections, The Book of Mencius, W.A.C.H. Dobson (translator) -- Confucian Self-Realization, Tu Wei-ming -- Confucianism in Perspective, Julia Ching -- A Confucian Metaphor--The Holy Vessel, Herbert Fingarette -- V. Taoism: The Way to Do Is to Be -- The Old Master and His Book, Frederic Spiegelberg -- Selections, Tao Te Ching, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English (translators) -- Selections, Chuang Tzu, Thomas Merton -- The Chinese Mind: Its Taoist Substratum, Lin Tung-chi -- Tao Now, Huston Smith -- VI. SHINTO: The Way of the Kami -- Shinto and Japan: An Overview, Edwin O. Reischauer -- The Way of the Kami, Joseph M. Kitagawa -- The True Way, Motoori Norinaga -- Beginnings, Births, Fertility, and Festivals, Ian Reader -- Glimpses of Shinto, Lafcadio Hearn -- VII. JUDAISM: The Sanctification of Life -- What Is Judaism?, Nicholas de Lange -- Nothing Is Ordinary, Louis Finkelstein -- Selections, The Holy Scriptures, The Jewish Publication Society -- The Essential Talmud, Adin Steinsaltz -- Jewish Mystical Tales, Howard Schwartz -- Holocaust, Emil L. Fackenheim -- VIII. CHRISTIANITY: Taking Up The Cross -- Ways of Being Religious in the New Testament, Norman Perrin -- Selections, The New Testament, New Revised Standard Version -- The Gospel of Thomas, Thomas O. Lambdin (translator) -- Selections, The Confessions, St. Augustine -- The Anguish of Being a Christian, Soren Kierkegaard -- Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton -- On the Road to Damascus, Rita Dove -- IX. ISLAM: The Straight Path -- Muhammad, Prophet of God, John L. Esposito -- Selections, The Koran, A. J. Arberry (translator) -- The Qur'anic Teaching, Fazlur Rahman -- Deliverance from Error, Al-Ghazali -- Moments of the Religious Life, Isma'il R. Farugi -- Male and Female in Islamic Perspective, Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- X. AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS: The Dawn of All Things -- Errors of Terminology, E. Bolaji Idowu -- Traditional African Religion, Vincent Mulago -- God in African Belief, E. Geoffrey Parrinder -- Ogotemmeli and the Dawn of All Things, Marcel Griaule -- Divinities, Spirits, and the Living Dead, John S. Mbiti -- XI. RELIGION IN AMERICA: A Sampler -- Frontier Preacher, Peter Cartwright -- The Faith of the Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith -- Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy -- The Souls of Black Folk -- The Spiritual Values of Native Americans, Joseph Epes Brown -- Epilogue -- Introduction -- A Personal Note, John Hick |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Religions.
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| Author |
Eastman, Roger.
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| LC no. |
98027306 |
| ISBN |
0195118359 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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