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    <title>Introduction to world religions</title>
    <subTitle>communities and cultures</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Neusner, Jacob</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1932-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Abingdon Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2010</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xxiii, 349 p. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction. A "humanly relevant" cosmos : what we study when we study religion / William Scott Green -- Judaism. Judaism : beginnings / Baruch A. Levine -- The formation / Jacob Neusner -- Judaism in modern times : Reform, Orthodox, and conservative Judaism; Zionism / Jacob Neusner -- Christianity. Christianity : beginnings / Bruce Chilton -- Roman Catholicism / Lawrence S. Cunningham -- Orthodox Christianity / J.A. McGuckin -- Protestantism / Martin E. Marty -- Islam. Islam : beginnings / Th. Emil Homerin -- The Shi'i tradition / Liyakat Takim -- The Sunni tradition / Th. Emil Homerin -- Hinduism / Douglas Brooks -- Buddhism. Buddhism : beginnings / Mario Poceski -- The Theravada tradition / Kristen Scheible -- The Mahayana tradition / Mark L. Blum -- Daoism / Mark Meulenbled -- Confucianism / Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi -- Shinto / James L. Ford -- Indigenous religions. Indigenous religious tradition / Jualynne E. Dodson, Soyna Maria Johnson -- African indigenous religions / Jacob Olupona -- New nineteenth-century American religions / Danny L. Jorgensen -- New twentieth-century American religions / Dell deChant.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Jacob Neusner.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Religions</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BL80.3 .I59 2010</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">200</classification>
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