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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Understanding world religions</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hexham, Irving.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2011</dateIssued>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>512 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 centímetros.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>pt. 1. Studying religion. Introductory issues in the study of religion -- A biased canon -- pt. 2. African traditions. African religious traditions -- Witchcraft and sorcery -- God in Zulu religion -- The case of Isaiah Shembe -- pt. 3. The Yogic tradition. The origins of yogic religions -- The richness of the Hindu tradition -- Rethinking the Hindu tradition -- Gandhi the great contrarian -- Buddhism -- The development of Buddhist belief and practice -- The moral quest of Edward Conze -- Other yogic-type traditions -- pt. 4. The Abramic tradition. Early Judaism -- Rabbinic and other Judaisms -- Jewish faith and practice -- Martin Buber's Zionist spirituality -- Christianity -- Christian history -- Christian faith and practice -- Christian politics according to Abraham Kuyper -- The challenge of Islam -- Muslim beliefs and practices -- Muslim piety -- Sayyid Qutb and the rebirth of contemporary Islam -- Conclusion: Whither religious studies?</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Irving Hexham.</note>
  <note>Incluye referencias bibliográficas.</note>
  <note>SEG42</note>
  <note>SEG41</note>
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  <note>P94</note>
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  <note>P86</note>
  <note>P85</note>
  <note>P77</note>
  <note>P76</note>
  <note>P35</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Religiones</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23">200 H49</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0310259444</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780310259442</identifier>
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