Encountering World Religions

A Christian Introduction

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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The diversity of the world's religions has come to the West, but believers are often ill-equipped for any kind of serious engagement with non-Christians. In Encountering World Religions, professor and author Irving Hexham introduces all the world's major religious traditions in a brief and understandable way.Hexham outlines key beliefs and practices in each religion, while also providing guidance on how to think critically about them from the standpoint of Christian theology. African, yogic, and Abrahamic traditions are all covered. Accessible and clear, Encountering World Religions will provide formal and lay students alike with a useful Christian introduction to the major faiths of our world.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-27
Mått135 x 203 x 15 mm
Vikt182 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagZondervan
ISBN9780310588603

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Irving Hexham is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary and adjunct professor of World Christianity at Liverpool Hope University. He has published twenty-seven academic books, including The Concise Dictionary of Religion, Understanding Cults and New Religions, and Religion and Economic Thought, plus eighty major academic articles and chapters in books, numerous popular articles, and book reviews. Recently he completed a report for the United Nations’ refugee agency on religious conflict in Africa and another for the Canadian Government’s Department of Canadian Heritage on Religious Publications in Canada. He is listed in Who’s Who in Canada and various scholarly directories. In 2008, he was honored at the historic Humboldt University in Berlin with a Festschrift, Border Crossings: Explorations of an Interdisciplinary Historian (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag).

Introduction: Understanding Precedes Engagement1.Welcome Back to the First Century2.The Christian Enemy3.Uncanny Encounters4.The Neglected Richness of African Traditions5.Africa’s Christian Heritage6.The Yogic Experience7.Hindu Narratives and the Problem of History8.The Nothingness of Buddhism9.Trapped in Samsara10.The Revival of Chinese Confucian and Taoist Traditions11.The Sikhs12.Judaism13.The Holocaust and the Problem of Jewish Conversion14.The Rise of Islam15.Islamophobia and the Reality of Islamic RevolutionsConclusion: Christianity Is Different