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Summary:

Abstract: Featuring more than sixty brand new maps, photographs, diagrams and charts, the Atlas of World Religions is an essential companion to any study on the key religions of the world.

Table of Contents:

• List of maps
• Foreword
• A chronology of world religions
• Part 1. The ancient world: Megaliths; Babylonia and Sumeria; Religion in ancient Egypt; The early city religions; The religions of Ancient Greece; Roman religion; Zoroastrianism
• Part 2. Hinduism: The origins of Hinduism; Hindu temple worship; Hinduism and the sacred; Hinduism in the modern world; Jainism
• Part 3. Buddhism: The origins of Buddhism; What is Buddhism?; Buddhism spreads beyond India; Buddhism in the modern world; Confucianism and Taoism
• Part 4. Judaism: Origin of the Jewish people; The Kingdom of Israel; Jewish dispersions; The Jewish diaspora; Judaism and the rise of Islam; Anti-semitism and Messianism; Jewish emancipation; Judaism in the USA; The Holocaust
• Part 5. Christianity: Palestine under the Herods; Judaism and the Early Church; The early growth of Christianity; Christianity becomes official; Christendom in 1050 CE; The European reformations; Christianity in the Americas c. 1750; An age of missions; The Mormons; Christianity today
• Part 6. Islam: Muhammad; The early growth of Islam; Islam in the Subcontinent; Islam in South-east Asia; Islam and Africa; Islam in modern Asia; Islam in the modern world; Sikhism
• Part 7. World religions today: Japanese religions; Religion in China today; What are indigenous religions? New religious movements; Modern pilgrimage; Jerusalem: The Holy City; What is the Hajj?
• Further reading
• Gazetteer.

Author/Creator:

Dowley, Tim , author

Contributors:

Partridge, Christopher H. (Christopher Hugh), 1961- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Atlas of world religions [by Dowley, T.]

Subjects:

Religions — History

Religions — History — Maps

Religions

Genres:

History

Maps

General Notes:

Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (65 entries) : 78 images.

Call Numbers:

BL80.3 .D683 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781787852037 (electronic version)
9781912552009 (paperback) [Invalid]
1912552000 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1117655851

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00568184 (source: CaBNVSL)
lhworld2018 (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo9781787852037