The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions is the most wide-ranging A-Z reference guide to all aspects of the world's religions past and present. With a total of over 8,200 entries, an extensive topic index, and an original and in-depth introductory essay this new dictionary, drawing on the latest research, is the definitive compendium on the subject.
* Religions: Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism and Parsis
* Movements, sects, and cults: more than 500 entries, including Bauls, Cargo cults, New Age, Rastafarians, ISKCON, Soka Gakkai, Hizballah
* Texts, books - over 1,000 listed and described, authorities, theology, scripture
* Individuals: founders, leaders, exponents, followers, gurus, philosophers, mystics, heretics, poets
* Sacred sites, cities, buildings, centres of pilgrimage
* Customs, practices, dogmas, beliefs, traditions, festivals and fasts, artefacts
* Ethics: abortion, animals, just war, sexuality and homosexuality, suicide
* Themes such as prayer, asceticism, cosmology, art and architecture
* Accessible reference: hundreds of quotations: suggestions for further reading; detailed system of cross-references; alternative spellings given for words with several transliterated forms
* Topic index of 13,000 items
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