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World Religions - Is There a Meaning for You?
Ron Forbes
Chris Hartney
其他書名
Your Candid Guide to Truth and Contradiction
出版
Relationship Publishing
, 2014-07
主題
Religion / Comparative Religion
Religion / Spirituality
Religion / Faith
ISBN
0992416612
9780992416614
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9Fr6oAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
*S*T*O*P* *P*R*E*S*S* This book won the Silver Medal eLit Book Awards 2014: Religion (Eastern & Western). The Gold Medal went to the Dalai Lama. - Do you want to understand people of different faiths around you - at work, in relationships, or interfaith? - Or do you wonder about the journey of religion through the ages and its impact on us all today? - Are you looking for a religion? Changing religions? Find you're becoming an atheist - and feeling guilty? Or the reverse! - Do you think you might be in a 'cult'? Here you have in one place the answers you want. - Are you looking for meaning and fulfilment in your life? Then browse the world's religions. You may be surprised! This is the popular guide to religion - all religions, for everyone. This common sense guide gives a deeply felt appreciation of what each religion offers, as well as a candid look at the negatives - the untold story. There are Ten Guidelines you can use to assess any faith (or 'cult') if you're thinking of changing religions or going atheist (or the other way round). Humour at times! Our purpose in writing this is to support all those with a need to understand a faith of any kind - in themselves or others around them. It will also help you understand the many ways in which our lives have been affected by religion - the impact on culture, ethics, authority, politics, education, change, gender equality, social taboos and more. It may even help you discuss the un-discussible! It's also for those joining a religion or leaving one. Included are such religions as Atheism and Agnosticism - together with Consumerism (some fun here!) Any book of this kind is influenced by the religious background of the authors. We speak from our personal connection, exploration, research and travel with many of the religious traditions described - including Atheism. One of us has a background in the Earth Sciences, the other in the Arts and Religion. There is much here relating to Interfaith Dialogue - where people attempt to cross the gulfs that divide us and see what's on the other side. At the end of the book you will find firsthand accounts from people of widely differing faiths describing from their own perspectives the experience of full commitment to their tradition. In these stories, we see the power of religion to touch the soul, to heal, and to change lives. If you want inspiration, turn to these stories. This book follows the progress of religions over time and their impact on one another. We start with the most ancient religions: the Pagan and the Australian Aboriginal. Since the book is being launched in the Western world, we take up next the ones most familiar to us, the Abrahamic religions - those that begin with the Jewish prophet Abraham: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. After that, we turn to the Eastern religions, starting with Hinduism (the oldest) and following on to Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Daoism, then Atheism - and Consumerism (with some laughs). Included are the many branches and sects in between, and some serious 'cults'. Despite the obvious conflicts, and the belief of many that the religion they grew up with has remained unchanged 'from the beginning', all religions, as they spread to new societies, inherit some of the local cultural practices and beliefs and become modified as a result. Religions continue to be in dialogue with one another, have evolved and mutated with time and now show some signs of coming together as friends, rather than as long-term rivals. We encourage this possibility. And if you have no religious belief? Take a look anyway and ask yourself what are the origins of your own beliefs in general, and your values - and what might you owe to whom? How did we get where we are today?
