COMPARATIVE WORLD RELIGIONS

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1 COMPARATIVE WORLD RELIGIONS 1. ORIENTATION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION 1.1. RELIGION AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE WHAT IS RELIGIOUS STUDIES? ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WHAT IS THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION? UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA 1.2. DEFINING RELIGION (DIMENSIONS OF RELIGION) LAURA ELLEN SHULMAN BRYAN S. RENNIE CLASSICAL DEFINITIONS: WHAT IS RELIGION? PAUL LAUGHLIN VARIOUS TEXTS DIMENSIONS OF RELIGION: NINIAN SMART (THE WORLD S RELIGIONS: SEVEN DIMENSIONS), FRANK WHALING, BRYAN RENNIE, PAUL LAUGHLIN 1.3. THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGION DIANA ECK, 1-79; HUSTON SMITH,

2 BASIC QUESTIONS (10) CHART OF CONSTANTS GLOBAL MAPPING OF THE WORLDS RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS GENERAL OVERVIEW: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WORLD RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIANITY, EDWARD ROMMEN THEISM AND MONISM: THE WEST-EAST GAME, PAUL LAUGHLIN (ALSO, TIMELINE OF THE WORLD S RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL MODELS FOR GOD-ULTIMATE) STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (TRENDS) RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY V. RELIGIOUS PLURALISM: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY V. RELIGIOUS PLURALISM: REACTING TO RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY, B. A. ROBINSON (RELIGIOUS TOLLERANCE.ORG) RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY (PLURALISM), STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY FROM DIVERSITY TO PLURALISM: IS IT A REQUIREMENT? BY PAUL D. NUMRICH PLURALISM IN AMERICA DVD, DIANA ECK (HARTLY FILM FOUNDATION) THE GENEVA REPORT: A PERSPECTIVE ON GLOBAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (2001) 2

3 1.4. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES PERTAINING TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES GENERAL OVERVIEW: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, PAUL NEWALL PASCAL S WAGER AQUINAS ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD ANSELM S ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION, STANLEY HONER AND THOMAS HUNT WHAT IS EPISTEMOLOGY? KEITH DEROSE PHENOMENOLOGY, STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY POSTMODERNISM: DEFINITION, KEITH MCLAUGHLIN, PARMER OVERVIEW: WHAT IS POSTMODERNISM? PAUL NEWALL AND POSTMODERNISM, MARY KLAGES ETHICS: INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS OVERVIEW: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ETHICS? PAUL NEWALL 3

4 ETHICS AND THE RELIGIONS, JOHN FRAME (SEE ALSO WIKIPEDIA) PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION NOTABLE PEOPLE, MICHAEL NEILSEN PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION IN THE USA, MICHAEL NIELSEN WORLDVIEW WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW? KEN FUNK SEVEN BASIC QUESTIONS AND DEFINITIONS, JAMES SIRE (NAMING THE ELEPHANT, 1-2); ALSO INTRODUCTION (THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR) BUILDING A FOUNDATION, JERRY SOLOMON (CHART: WORLDVIEWS IN WESTERN CULTURE) 2. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PRIMARY RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MAN 2.1. HINDUISM DIANA ECK, HUSTON SMITH,

5 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD OVERVIEW: HINDUISM IN INDIA AND IN AMERICA BY GERALD JAMES LARSON IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), ON COMMON GROUND DVD 2.2. BUDDHISM DIANA ECK, HUSTON SMITH, RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD OVERVIEW: BUDDHISM IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY MALCOLM DAVID ECKEL IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), BUDDHISM DVD, ROBERT THURMAN LECTURE ON COMMON GROUND DVD 2.3. ISLAM DIANA ECK, HUSTON SMITH,

6 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD OVERVIEW: ISLAM IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY JOHN l. ESPOSITO IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), ON COMMON GROUND DVD MUSLIMS, FRONTLINE DVD 2.4. JUDAISM HUSTON SMITH, RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD OVERVIEW: JUDAISM IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY JACOB NEUSNER IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), ON COMMON GROUND DVD 2.5 CHRISTIANITY HUSTON SMITH, RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD OVERVIEW: PROTESTANT CHRISTIUANITY IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY MARTIN MARTY IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.),

7 OVERVIEW: THE CATHOLICS IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY ANDREW M. GREELEY IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), PENTECOSTALISM ON COMMON GROUND DVD 7