Religion

Living Religions presents a highly readable and stimulating survey of the modern religious world. Exploring the historical development and teachings of traditional faiths, indigenous religions, and new religious movements, this book considers how each of these traditions has evolved into contemporary beliefs and practices. This text explores in detail the changing nature of each religion, the spread of religious pluralism, the rise in violence in the name of religion, and the movement toward interfaith dialogue. Author Mary Pat Fisher offers fresh and challenging insight into how believers of today's faiths perceive their religion and its role in the changing world in which they live.

• NEW CD-ROM bound into every new copy of the text.  The icons in the margins for cross-referencing to the Sacred World: Encounters with the World's Religions CD-ROM, a new multimedia exploration of the riturals, beliefs, art, and key personalities of the world's major religions.
• Provides students easy references to lively multimedia examples that add dimension to the text with relevant explorations in context with the topics presented.
• NEW key terms at the end of each chapter listing the main terms and their definitions pertaining to each religion; and an extended glossary at the end of the book.
• Offers students help defining the words presented in each chapter, clarifying the vocabulary in one chapter before students move on to the next; and offers them the option to look up words at the back of the book if they prefer that method of learning vocabulary.
• NEW study questions at the end of each chapter that pertain to the text, and listings of relevant articles found in the exclusive Prentice Hall TIME Magazine Special Edition: World Religions.
• Helps students review using their text, along with timely, relevant TIME articles that bring topics to life with the bold coverage for which TIME Magazine is known.
• NEW suggested readings for every chapter, plus specific tools for research and further exploration available in the Prentice Hall Research Navigator website.
• Guides students to relevant resources, including online tools for further study and research of topics presented in every chapter.
• NEW color illustrations, 15 in all, and a new feature box that covers Zoroastrianism.
• Adds eye-catching appeal to the text by bringing material to life in vivid color.
• Personal interviews with followers of each faith–First-person quotations in “Interview” feature boxes and also woven throughout the text.
• Provide interesting and informative first-person accounts of each religion as perceived from within the religion.
• Eight feature boxes on “Religion in Public Life”–Focus on people such as Jimmy Carter, the Dalai Lama, and Desmond Tutu.
• Portray the spiritual roots of people who are making significant contributions to modern society.
• Eight feature boxes on “Religion in Practice."
• Portray the spiritual activities and beliefs of religious groups or individuals.
• Ten feature boxes containing “Teaching Stories."
• Serve as take-off points for discussions about core values in each faith.
• Maps–Used throughout, illustrate the present distribution of the religions.
• Give a sense of geographical reality to the historical discussions.
• Timelines–Used to summarize the historical development of the major religions.
• Compares the simultaneous development of all religions in the overall timeline on the end pages.
• Available for packaging:
• Atlas of World Religions (0131938851)-A useful reference and guide, this glossary includes important terms with definitions that are important to the study of religion.
• Common Religious Terms (0131705199)-A useful reference and guide, this glossary includes important terms with definitions that are important to the study of religion.
• TIME Special Edition: World Religions (0131457810)-offers a selection of over a dozenTIME articles on today's most current issues and debates in World Religion.

NEW CD-ROM icons in the margins for cross-referencing to the Sacred Heart: Encounters with the World's Religions CD-ROM, a new multimedia exploration of the riturals, beliefs, art, and key personalities of the world's major religions.

-- Provides students easy references to lively multimedia examples that add dimension to the text with relevant explorations in context with the topics presented.

NEW key terms at the end of each chapter listing the main terms and their definitions pertaining to each religion; and an extended glossary at the end of the book.

-- Offers students help defining the words presented in each chapter, clarifying the vocabulary in one chapter before students move on to the next; and offers them the option to look up words at the back of the book if they prefer that method of learning vocabulary.

NEW study questions at the end of each chapter that pertain to the text, and listings of relevant articles found in the exclusive Prentice Hall TIME Magazine Special Edition: World Religions.

-- Helps students review using their text, along with timely, relevant TIME articles that bring topics to life with the bold coverage for which TIME Magazine is known.

NEW suggested readings for every chapter, plus specific tools for research and further exploration available in the Prentice Hall Research Navigator website.

-- Guides students to relevant resources, including online tools for further study and research of topics presented in every chapter.

NEW color illustrations, 15 in all, and a new feature box that covers Zoroastrianism.

-- Adds eye-catching appeal to the text by bringing material to life in vivid color.

  1. Religious Responses.

  2. Indigenous Sacred Ways.

  3. Hinduism.

  4. Jainism.

  5. Buddhism.

  6. Daoism and Confucianism.

  7. Shinto.

  8. Judaism.

  9. Christianity.

10. Islam.

11. Sikhism.

12. New Religious Movements.

13. Religion in the Twenty-First Century.

Notes.

Glossary.

Index.

Timeline.

Introduction to Religion  [WORLD RELIGIONS]   (Religion)
World Religions  [WORLD RELIGIONS]   (Religion)

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  Living Religions, 7/E
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  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 568 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136141056 | ISBN-13: 9780136141051
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  Living Religions presents a highly readable and stimulating survey of the modern religious world. Exploring the historical development and teachings of traditional faiths, indigenous religions, and new religious movements, this book considers how each of these traditions has evolved into contemporary beliefs and practices. This text explores in detail the changing nature of each religion, the spread of religious pluralism, the rise in violence in the name of religion, and the movement toward interfaith dialogue. Author Mary Pat Fisher offers fresh and challenging insight into how believers of today's faiths perceive their religion and its role in the changing world in which they live.

Atlas of World Religions
Prentice Hall
©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 64 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131938851 | ISBN-13: 9780131938854
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Building Bridges: The Allyn & Bacon Student Guide to Service-Learning
Hamner
©2002 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 128 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205319742 | ISBN-13: 9780205319749
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Common Religious Terms
Prentice Hall
©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 112 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131705199 | ISBN-13: 9780131705197
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InterWrite PRS RF (Personal Response System)
InterWrite PRS & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205436951 | ISBN-13: 9780205436958

ResearchNavigator.com Guide
Allyn & Bacon
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 48 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205517196 | ISBN-13: 9780205517190

ResearchNavigator.com Guide
Allyn & Bacon & Barr
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 48 pp | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 020552396X | ISBN-13: 9780205523962

Sacred World, Encounters with the World's Religions CD-ROM, The
Prentice Hall
©2004 | Prentice Hall | CD-ROM Only; 0 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131840908 | ISBN-13: 9780131840904
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TIME: World Religion Special Edition
Prentice Hall
©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 48 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131457810 | ISBN-13: 9780131457812

iClicker Classroom Response System
iClicker & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2008 | Prentice Hall | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205594506 | ISBN-13: 9780205594504

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