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Introducing World Religions: A Christian Engagement

Publisher:
, 2015
ISBN: 9781493402540
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This beautifully designed, full-color textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the world’s religions, including history, beliefs, worship practices, and contemporary expressions. Charles Farhadian, a seasoned teacher and recognized expert on world religions, provides an empathetic account that both affirms Christian uniqueness and encourages openness to various religious traditions. His nuanced, ecumenical perspective enables readers to appreciate both Christianity and the world’s religions in new ways.

In the Logos edition, this volume is enhanced by amazing functionality. Important terms link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. Perform powerful searches to find exactly what you’re looking for. Take the discussion with you using tablet and mobile apps. With Logos Bible Software, the most efficient and comprehensive research tools are in one place, so you get the most out of your study.

Join the conversation with the Christian Dialogue with World Religions and Atheism Collection (2 vols.).

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  • Highlights similarities, dissimilarities, and challenging issues for Christians
  • Includes important selections from sacred texts of major world religions
  • Features pedagogical helps, including sidebars, charts, maps, and illustrations
  • The Persistence of Religion
  • Hinduism
  • Buddhism
  • Jainism
  • Sikhism
  • Taoism and Confucianism
  • Judaism
  • Christianity
  • Islam
  • New Religious Movements

Top Highlights

“Buddhism can also help remind Christians not to take things too seriously or personally.” (Page 171)

“The most important influences of the Aryans on local Indian life around 1500 BCE were the introduction of the Aryan religious language (Sanskrit), social structure, and religion (e.g., mythology). Sanskrit was used by Aryans for sacred oral and literary purposes. Like Greek, Latin, and English, Sanskrit is an Indo-European language.” (Page 67)

“The Vedas (Sanskrit, ‘sacred knowledge’) are the oldest sacred scriptures of Hinduism, and they introduce some of the most important notions of Hinduism, especially the liturgies, mantras, praises, and chants used by priests in religious rituals.” (Page 66)

“All oppositions can be mapped using yin and yang. From their interaction and fluctuation, the universe and all forms emerge. Yang represents the force of light, brightness, heat, maleness, strength, above, heaven, sunny, day, south. Yang is the masculine, hard, active, red, the sun, and odd numbers. Yin represents the balancing force of opposites, such as darkness, coldness, femaleness, heaviness, weakness, below, earth, shady, night, north. Yin is the feminine, yielding, receptive, moon, water, clouds, and even numbers.” (Page 267)

“Hinduism, then, is a broad term that describes the indigenous religions of India, without a particular founder, without a single unified history, and without a prescribed, unified practice of worship. Some argue that all Hindus share the belief in the same sacred texts, but that notion is difficult to sustain because textual learning is not necessary for faithful Hindu living.” (Page 63)

This volume is a teacher’s dream. It explains theories of religion in accessible language, describes the practices and beliefs of major religions, includes numerous photos and charts to hold student interest, and exhibits a fine balance between detail and overview.

Dana L. Robert, Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission, Boston University

Lushness of illustration aside--and there’s plenty of that!--what Introducing World Religions does best is to illustrate in the person of the author himself a model for ‘Christian engagement’ with the world’s religions, old and new.

—Richard Fox Young, Timby Chair, history of religions, Princeton Theological Seminary

Charles Farhadian has produced an excellent and long-awaited book with a well-balanced coverage on East Asian religions (Taoism and Confucianism) and East Asian Christianity, which have been very much neglected in the past. This is an indispensable text for college and other courses related to introducing world religions not only in the West but also in the East.

—Heup Young Kim, professor emeritus of theology, Kangnam University, South Korea

Charles E. Farhadian is professor of world religions and Christian mission at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is the editor of Introducing World Christianity and Christian Worship Worldwideand coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion. He has done fieldwork in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, where he has done extensive research on worship, social history, and nation making.

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