Pre-Owned 50 Religious Ideas You Really Need to Know (Hardcover) 9781848660595

Despite frequent prognostications regarding the 'death of God' and the triumph of secular materialism religion remains a central component in the lives of most people around the world. There are currently thought to be 2 billion Christians 1.2 billion Muslims 800 million Hindus along with some 700 million followers of other religions. 50 Religious Ideas You Really Need to Know offers a clear path through the conceptual and denominational thickets of global religion. Award-winning religious affairs correspondent Peter Stanford begins with an examination of sacred texts the divine principle and good and evil before moving on to a discussion of the different traditions within Christianity Islam Judaism and the myriad customs of the East. Contents: The Divine Principle Baptists Buddha's teachings Sacred Texts Presbyterians Dhama Good and Evil Sects and cults Forms of Buddhism Life and Death Rapture Confucianism Golden Rule God & Torah Taoism Rites and Rituals Anti-Semitism Shintoism Life of Christ Kabbalah Missionary impulse God and Mammon Being Jewish Just War Reformation Mohammed Church and State Papacy Pillars of Islam Spirituality Guilt and Misogyny Shari'ah law Fundamentalism Holy Spirit Sunni & Shia Darwinist challenge Saints and sinners Sufism People and Creation Orthodoxy Islamism The poor Lutheranism Hindu trinity Sea of faith Anglicanism Sansara Methodism Sikhs & Jains.