50 Religious Ideas You Really Need to Know (9781848660595)

The God-shaped hole. Sacred texts. Good and evil. Life and death. The Golden Rule. Rites and rituals. The life of Christ. God and Mammon. Reformation. The papacy. Guilt and misogyny. The Holy Spirit. Saints and Sinners. Orthodoxy. Luther and his successors. Anglicanism. Methodism. Baptists. Presbyterians. Sects and cults. Rapture. Being Jewish. Jewish rites of passage. Kabbalah. Anti-Semitism. The birth of Islam. The Pillars of Islam. Sunni and Shi'a. The heart of Islam. Militant Islam. The many faces of Hinduism. Hindu worship. Samsara. Jainism. Sikhism. Buddha and the Bodhi tree. Schools of Buddhism. Buddhist wheel of life. Confucianism. Confucius and the Communists. Taoism. Shintoism. Contemporary credos. Religion and science. Atheism. Stewards of creation. The just war. The missionary impulse. Spirituality. The future of religion.