The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual QuotationsRoutledge, 08.08.2005 - 240 Seiten How did the universe come to exist? What is the nature of its creator? Is there a purpose to human existence? What is it to live a good life? |
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... idea of ghosts inevitably—Spencer's favourite word—develops into that of Gods, the ghosts of remote ancestors or of superior persons becoming divinities... It is a fine example of the introspectionist psychologist's, or 'if I were a ...
... idea that mental stress and mental illness are the prerogative of 'over-civilised' societies: that the simple savage may have Ancylostomiasis but cannot have Anxiety: that he may, in his innocence, believe his neighbour to be making bad ...
... idea of a Supreme Being, and the erroneous identification, the misleading assimilation, of this idea to true monotheism can give rise only to misunderstandings. Raffaele Pettazzoni, Essays on the History of Religions (1954) 9 A theistic ...
... the religions called 'primitive' nor those classed as polytheistic are ignorant of the idea of a God who is the Creator, omniscient and all-powerful. Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1960) 7 DUALISM—TWIN GODS MONOTHEISM 5 11.
... ideas have been developed among mankind. Edward B.Tylor, Primitive Culture (1871) 2 It is Animism in the loose sense of ... idea, and therefore can hardly be taken to represent the first phase of all religions. Mircea Eliade, Patterns in ...
Inhalt
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II THE SUPERNATURAL | 37 |
III THE NATURE OF GOD | 51 |
IV THE UNIVERSE | 76 |
V HUMANITY | 89 |
VI THE SACRED | 97 |
VII SACRED PERSONS | 105 |
XI SPIRITUAL EXERCISES | 151 |
XII RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY | 164 |
XIII RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY | 189 |
XIV VIRTUE AND THE GOOD | 205 |
XV MORALITY | 225 |
XVI MEN AND WOMEN | 246 |
XVII SOCIETY | 263 |
XVIII LAST THINGS | 291 |
VIII SACRED WORDS | 120 |
IX SACRED ACTIONS | 128 |
X SPIRITUALITY | 136 |
TEXT AND AUTHOR INDEX | 318 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 330 |
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