Religion: a Very Short Introduction
Description
Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion shapes how they enter the world and how they leave it - how they eat, dress, marry, and raise their children. It affects law, economy, and government. It sanctifies injustice and combats it. Beginning with the first signs of religion among ancient humans and concluding with a look at modern citizens and contemporary trends,leading scholar Thomas Tweed examines this powerful and enduring force in human society. Religion: A Very Short Introduction offers a concise non-partisan overview of religion's long history and its complicated role in the world today.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2016-07-01
- 240 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
-
- 2010-06-01
- 28 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press, USA
-
- 2019-03-26
- 296 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton University Press
Similar books
-
Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century
By Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski Jr., Philip Goff' A seminal article by Robert Bellah appeared just over fifty years ago. A multi-disciplinary array of scholars in this volume assess the concept's origins, history, and continued usefulness.
-
After God: The Future Of Religion
By Don CupittWhat is it about religion that, despite all odds, allows it to survive? In After God, the renowned scholar Don Cupitt considers the fate of religion, now that we have...
-
The Religion of Humanity
By Octavius Brooks FrothinghamThe Religion of Humanity
-
The True Religion of God
Each person is born in a circumstance which is not of his own choosing. The religion of his family or the ideology of the state is thrust upon him from the very beginning of his existence in this world.
-
Encyclopaedia of Religion and Religions
By E. ROYSTON. PIKEFirst published in 1951 Encyclopaedia of Religion and Religions is an essential historical resource for scholars and researchers of religion.
-
Introduction to the Study of Religion
By Kathleen S. Nash, Mary N. MacDonald, Fred GlennonThis introductory text helps students think through the basic questions that arise in the study of religion.
-
A Documentary History of Religion in America
By Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, Heath W. Carterauthors and teams of scholars, including John R. McKivigan, The War against Proslavery Religion (1984), James Oscar Farmer Jr., The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values (1986), ...
-
Christianity, Cults & Religions
By Rose PublishingOver 1 million copies sold! Compare 20 cults, sects, and religions--this new 7th Edition compares 2 more religious groups! Many religious groups use the same terms but hold opposite beliefs.
-
The Pragmatics of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts, and Contests
By Jan G. Platvoet, Arie Leendert Molendijk"The Pragmatics of Defining Religion" is a multidisciplinary volume on the problem of the definition of religion with chapters on the polemics of defining religion in modern contexts, the history of the concept of religion, the methodology ...
-
Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
By Steven W. RameyThe Case for the Critical Study of Religion Steven W. Ramey ... 33 Significantly, by the time he came to write The Ego and the Id (1923), Freud had revised his views on melancholia. No longer does melancholia constitute a “pathological” ...