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001 2008024504
003 DLC
005 20100427082813.0
008 080603s2009 njua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008024504
020 $a9780136003809
020 $a013600380X
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn230916680
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBAKER$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dOCLCG$dOCLCQ$dDLC
050 00 $aBL48$b.L48 2009
082 00 $a200$222
100 1 $aLivingston, James C.,$d1930-
245 10 $aAnatomy of the sacred :$ban introduction to religion /$cJames C. Livingston.
250 $a6th ed.
260 $aUpper Saddle River, N.J. :$bPearson/Prentice Hall,$cc2009.
300 $axvii, 419 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe study of religion -- What is religion? -- Ways of studying religion -- Universal forms of religious experience and expression -- The sacred and the holy -- Sacred symbol, myth, and doctrine -- Sacred ritual -- Sacred scripture -- Society and the sacred: the social formations and transformations of religion -- Universal components of a religious worldview -- Deity: concepts of the divine and ultimate reality -- Cosmogony: origins of the natural and social order -- Views of the human problem -- Theodicy: encountering evil -- Ethics: foundations of moral action -- Soteriology: ways and goals of salvation and liberation -- The sacred and the secular in modernity -- Secularization: new religious revitalization movements; contemporary religious fundamentalism -- Contemporary challenges to traditional religion: the status and the roles of women; relations between religion and the state.
650 0 $aReligion.
650 0 $aReligions.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0820/2008024504.html