World Religions

Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism have a profoundly philosophical dimension. The three traditions are frequently referred to as three paths of moral teachings. In this book, Mou provides a clear account of the textual corpus that emerges to define each of these traditions and how this canonical axis was augmented by a continuing commentarial tradition as each generation reauthorized the written core for their own time and place.

This volume focuses on Buddhism and Jainism, two religions which, together with Hinduism, constitute the three pillars of Indic religious tradition in its classical formulation. It explores their history and relates how the Vedic period in the history of Hinduism drew to a close around the sixth century BCE and how its gradual etiolation gave rise to a number of religious movements.

How can the world's many religions overcome ideological differences and come together to promote understanding, justice and peace? In this groundbreaking volume, James L. Heft and 15 other leading scholars of the world's major religions show how to answer this crucial question. Structured as a scholarly dialogue Catholicism and Interreligious Dialogue contains essays by Catholic scholars and critical responses from scholars of other traditions.

Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political and religious interaction between China and the West. As the world responds to China's rise and China positions herself for global engagement, this major new study reawakens and revises an ancient conversation.

This book collects 25 important articles written by Professor Tang since the 1980s, dealing extensively with issues of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese culture. The late Professor Tang Yijie (1927-2014) was a professor at Peking University who spearheaded the Confucian Canon project, which seeks to compile all known classical works on Confucianism, comparable in scope and significance to the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries.

Confucianism and Catholicism, among the most influential religious traditions, share an intricate relationship. Beginning with the work of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the nature of this relationship has generated great debate. Written by specialists in both traditions, these ten essays synthesize in a single volume this historic conversation.

The present volume explores the struggle, limitations and potential opportunities of applying a digital humanities approach to pre-modern Asian religions. The authors cover Buddhism, Christianity, Daoism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism and Shintoism with chapters categorized according to their focus on: 1) temples, 2) manuscripts, 3) texts, and 4) social media.

This volume covers three religions--Zoraoastrianism, Judaism and Islam and their connections to and within India. Indeed all the three religions covered in this volume share a dual feature, that they have profoundly influenced Indian religious life and have also in turn been profoundly influenced by their presence in India.

Instead of simply being another survey of the three dominant religions in contemporary Korea - Buddhism, Confucianism and Christianity - this unique book studies them in relation to each other in terms of assimilation, accommodation, conflict and exclusion. The contributors focus on major issues that have historically challenged the relations between the three religions from the Goryeo period to the present and how each religion has responded to them.

This volume shows how a shared monotheistic legacy frames and helps explain the commonalities and disagreements among Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Taking a thematic approach, the authors discuss how contemporary geographic and cultural contexts shape the expression of monotheism in the three religions.

This book introduces the reader to the complex relationship between religion and nonviolence. Each of the essays delves into the contemporary and historical expressions of the world’s major religious traditions in relation to nonviolence. Contributors explore the literary and theological foundations of a tradition’s justification of nonviolence; the ways that nonviolence has come to expression in its beliefs; and the evidence of nonviolence in its historic and present responses.

In Teaching Interreligious Encounters, Marc A. Pugliese and Alexander Y. Hwang have gathered together a multidisciplinary and international group of scholar-teachers to explore the pedagogical issues that occur at the intersection of different religious traditions. This volume is a theoretical and practical guide for new teachers as well as seasoned scholars.

The Bible and the Qur'an provides an overview of all the figures and groups who are mentioned in both the Bible and the Qur'an. Principal focus centres on the similarities and differences between the presentations of these characters in the two texts, with special emphasis placed on how they appear in the Islamic text.

Cesari argues that both religious and national communities are defined by the three Bs: belief, behaviour and belonging. By focusing on the ways in which these three Bs intersect, overlap or clash, she identifies the patterns of the politicization of religion and vice versa, in any given context.