Descriptive Religion

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In this final book of the Theology series, I will simply describe many of the world's religions. As it would be practically impossible to detail all of the thousands of religions, denominations, sects, and cults, I will focus on the major religions, some interesting smaller groups, and some new developments in religious thought.

As with the other books of this series, prior knowledge of religious theory should not be needed to understand the content of this book.

Contents

• World religion
• Describing world religions
• Religions, denominations, sects, and cults
• Major religions
  • Judaism
  • Christianity
  • Islam
  • Hinduism
  • Buddhism
  • Jainism
  • Woe-geo (Duk-in Joo Religion)
  • Zorastrianism
  • Sikhism
  • Taoism
  • Confucianism
  • Shintoism
  • Secularism
  • Agnosticism
  • Athiesm
  • Animism, panpsychism, pantheism, and panentheism
• Other religions, movements, and concepts
  • Marxism
  • New Age
  • Witchcraft, magic, and Wicca
  • Native American spirituality
  • Bahai
  • Uniterianism
  • Ecumenism
  • Sufism
  • Satanism
  • Paganism and Neo-Paganism
  • Kabala
  • Vudun
  • The Unification Church
  • The Way International
  • Armstrongism
  • Astra
  • Christadelpians
  • Christian Science
  • Divine Light Mission
  • Eckankar
  • The Family/Children of God
  • Foundation of Human Understanding
  • Guardjieff
  • Holy Order of Man
  • Jehovah's Witness
  • Krishnamurti
  • Lucis Trust
  • Gnostic Christianity
  • Rajneesh
  • Ram Dass
  • Mormanism
  • Religion Science
  • Ruhani Satsung
  • Sai Baba Society
  • Scientology
  • Self Fellowship
  • Silva
  • Sri Chemnoy
  • Swedenbourg
  • Theosophy
  • Transcendental Meditation
  • UFO cults

References

Internal

• [World Religions]

There are Wikipedia articles for most of the religions.

External

Books

• Ankerberg, John & John Weldon (1999) Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions. Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publisjers ISBN 1736900748
• Barrett, David, et al., (2001) World Christian Encyclopedia: A comparative survey of churches and religions - AD 30 to 2200, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195103181
• Gaer, Joseph (1978) What the Great Religions Believe. New York: Signet Books ISBN 0451155297
• Halverson, Dean C. (general edition) (1996) The Compact Guide to World Religions. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers ISBN 1556617046
• McDowell, Josh & Don Stewart (1982) Handbook of Todays Religions: Understanding Non-Christian Religions. San Bernardino, CA: Here's Life Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0866050922
• Mead, Frank S. & Samuel S. Hill (1965) Handbook of Demoninations in the United States: 10th Edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press ISBN 0687014786

Internet sites

• [Adherants.com: Statistics about church membership and religious adherants of different faith groups]
• [Electric Texts (Religious Studies Web Guide)]
• [Virtual Religion Index]
• [Watchman Fellowship: A Christian Research and Apologetics Ministry]

Courses

• Johnson, Luke T., John L. Esposito, et al (Presenters) ( ) Great World Religions, 2nd edition. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company