Introduction to the study of religion /

Ring, Nancy C.

Introduction to the study of religion / Nancy C. Ring ...[et al.]. - Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c1998. - x, 340 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human experience and religion:
Creating order and meaning-
Religious understandings of life--
The study of religion--
Religious action:
Ritual action--
Ethical action.
Religious language:
Talking about the sacred--
Scriptures, canons, and creeds.
Religious change:
Personal religious change--
Communal religious change.
Living authentically:
Reconciling religion--
Alienation--
Responses to alienation.

1570751838 (pbk. : alk. paper)

97049093


Religion.

BL48 / .R455 1998

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