COMPARATIVE WORLD RELIGIONS 1. ORIENTATION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION 1.1. RELIGION AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE 1.1.1. WHAT IS RELIGIOUS STUDIES? ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 1.1.2. WHAT IS THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION? UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA 1.2. DEFINING RELIGION (DIMENSIONS OF RELIGION) 1.2.1. LAURA ELLEN SHULMAN 1.2.2. BRYAN S. RENNIE 1.2.3. CLASSICAL DEFINITIONS: WHAT IS RELIGION? PAUL LAUGHLIN 1.2.4. VARIOUS TEXTS 1.2.5. 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; 294-386 HUSTON SMITH, 1-11 1
1.3.1. BASIC QUESTIONS (10) 1.3.2. CHART OF CONSTANTS 1.3.3. GLOBAL MAPPING OF THE WORLDS RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS 1.3.4. GENERAL OVERVIEW: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WORLD RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIANITY, EDWARD ROMMEN 1.3.5. THEISM AND MONISM: THE WEST-EAST GAME, PAUL LAUGHLIN (ALSO, TIMELINE OF THE WORLD S RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL MODELS FOR GOD-ULTIMATE) 1.3.6. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (TRENDS) 1.3.7. RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY V. RELIGIOUS PLURALISM: 1.3.8.1.RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY V. RELIGIOUS PLURALISM: REACTING TO RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY, B. A. ROBINSON (RELIGIOUS TOLLERANCE.ORG) 1.3.8.2. RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY (PLURALISM), STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY 1.3.8.3. FROM DIVERSITY TO PLURALISM: IS IT A REQUIREMENT? BY PAUL D. NUMRICH 1.3.8.4. PLURALISM IN AMERICA DVD, DIANA ECK (HARTLY FILM FOUNDATION) 1.3.9. THE GENEVA REPORT: A PERSPECTIVE ON GLOBAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (2001) 2
1.4. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES PERTAINING TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1.4.1. GENERAL OVERVIEW: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, PAUL NEWALL 1.4.1.1. PASCAL S WAGER 1.4.1.2.AQUINAS ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 1.4.1.3. ANSELM S ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 1.4.2. PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION, STANLEY HONER AND THOMAS HUNT 1.4.2.1. WHAT IS EPISTEMOLOGY? KEITH DEROSE 1.4.2.2.PHENOMENOLOGY, STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY 1.4.2.3.POSTMODERNISM: 1.4.2.3.1. DEFINITION, KEITH MCLAUGHLIN, PARMER 1.4.2.3.2. OVERVIEW: WHAT IS POSTMODERNISM? PAUL NEWALL AND POSTMODERNISM, MARY KLAGES 1.4.2.4.ETHICS: 1.4.2.4.1. INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS 1.4.2.4.2. OVERVIEW: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ETHICS? PAUL NEWALL 3
1.4.2.4.3. ETHICS AND THE RELIGIONS, JOHN FRAME (SEE ALSO WIKIPEDIA) 1.4.3. PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION 1.4.3.1. NOTABLE PEOPLE, MICHAEL NEILSEN 1.4.3.2. PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION IN THE USA, MICHAEL NIELSEN 1.4.4. WORLDVIEW 1.4.4.1. WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW? KEN FUNK 1.4.4.2. SEVEN BASIC QUESTIONS AND DEFINITIONS, JAMES SIRE (NAMING THE ELEPHANT, 1-2); ALSO INTRODUCTION (THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR) 1.4.4.3. 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, 80-141 HUSTON SMITH, 12-81 4
2.1.1. RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD 2.1.2. OVERVIEW: HINDUISM IN INDIA AND IN AMERICA BY GERALD JAMES LARSON IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), 125-141. 2.1.3. ON COMMON GROUND DVD 2.2. BUDDHISM DIANA ECK, 142-221 HUSTON SMITH, 82-153 2.2.1. RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD 2.2.2. OVERVIEW: BUDDHISM IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY MALCOLM DAVID ECKEL IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), 143-153. 2.2.3. BUDDHISM DVD, ROBERT THURMAN LECTURE 2.2.4. ON COMMON GROUND DVD 2.3. ISLAM DIANA ECK, 222-293 HUSTON SMITH, 221-270 5
2.3.1. RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD 2.3.2. OVERVIEW: ISLAM IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY JOHN l. ESPOSITO IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), 173-183. 2.3.3. ON COMMON GROUND DVD 2.3.4. MUSLIMS, FRONTLINE DVD 2.4. JUDAISM HUSTON SMITH, 271-316 2.4.1. RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD 2.4.2. OVERVIEW: JUDAISM IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY JACOB NEUSNER IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), 106-123. 2.4.3. ON COMMON GROUND DVD 2.5 CHRISTIANITY HUSTON SMITH, 317-364 2.5.1. RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SERIES DVD 2.5.2. OVERVIEW: PROTESTANT CHRISTIUANITY IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY MARTIN MARTY IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), 24-47. 6
2.5.3. OVERVIEW: THE CATHOLICS IN THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA BY ANDREW M. GREELEY IN WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (JACOB NEUSNER, ED.), 67-77. 2.5.4. PENTECOSTALISM 2.5.5. ON COMMON GROUND DVD 7