Sourcebook of the World's Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion and SpiritualityJoel Beversluis New World Library, 2011 M02 8 - 420 pages Now in its third edition, this is the most comprehensive work available on the rich variety of paths available to today's spiritual seekers. More than an academic reference, it explores how religions can collaborate to help the world. Essays exploring the realm of building an interfaith community add to the book's detailed portraits of the major religious traditions. The Sourcebook also contains essays on spiritual practices as diverse as theosophy, wicca, and indigenous religions. This revised edition of the Sourcebook offers an unparalleled look at where spirituality is headed in the coming millennium. |
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... truths, and wisdom. We are not, however, proposing the deliberate mixing or watering-down of beliefs and traditions into a consensus or world religion. In this sense and in other ways, the book is an Interfaith Guide. The Sourcebook ...
... truths, and wisdom. We are not, however, proposing the deliberate mixing or watering-down of beliefs and traditions into a consensus or world religion. In this sense and in other ways, the book is an Interfaith Guide. The Sourcebook ...
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... truth, exploring who we are, why we're here, and how we should live. On the other hand. . . see other chapters (e.g., Chapter 23) and other media. Part Two: Becoming a Community of Religions While the pages of this Sourcebook hold many ...
... truth, exploring who we are, why we're here, and how we should live. On the other hand. . . see other chapters (e.g., Chapter 23) and other media. Part Two: Becoming a Community of Religions While the pages of this Sourcebook hold many ...
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... truth, private prayer, and collective discussion and action are the favored modes of religious action. Usually Bahá'í communities have no weekly worship service; rather, a monthly program called feast is held that includes worship ...
... truth, private prayer, and collective discussion and action are the favored modes of religious action. Usually Bahá'í communities have no weekly worship service; rather, a monthly program called feast is held that includes worship ...
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... truth of suffering, and called this action—conjoined with afflicting elements (karma and klesa)—the truth of the cause of suffering. These two truths constitute the first of the Four Noble Truths, which were the principal teaching of ...
... truth of suffering, and called this action—conjoined with afflicting elements (karma and klesa)—the truth of the cause of suffering. These two truths constitute the first of the Four Noble Truths, which were the principal teaching of ...
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... Truths was his formulation of a twelvefold causal linkage generating each and every particular instance of birth of a person. This twelvefold causal nexus begins with nescience and ends with old age and death. This nescience is in ...
... Truths was his formulation of a twelvefold causal linkage generating each and every particular instance of birth of a person. This twelvefold causal nexus begins with nescience and ends with old age and death. This nescience is in ...
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