The Religions Book

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LONDON, NEW YORK, MELBOURNE, MUNICH, AND DELHI DK LONDON SENIOR EDITORS Gareth Jones, Georgina Palffy PROJECT ART EDITOR Katie C ...

SHULAMIT AMBALU Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu MA studied at Leo Baeck College, London, where she was ordained in 2004 and now lectures i ...

10 INTRODUCTION PRIMAL BELIEFS FROM PREHISTORY 20 Unseen forces are at work Making sense of the world 24 Even a rock has a spiri ...

HINDUISM FROM 1700 BCE 92 Through sacrifice we maintain the order of the universe A rational world 100 The divine has a female a ...

186 God and humankind are in cosmic exile Mysticism and the kabbalah 188 The holy spark dwells in everyone Man as a manifestatio ...

272 God guides us with shari‘a The pathway to harmonious living 276 We can think about God, but we cannot comprehend him Theolog ...

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12 T here is no simple definition of the concept of religion that fully articulates all its dimensions. Encompassing spiritual, ...

13 As the early religions evolved, their ceremonies and cosmologies became increasingly sophisticated. Primal religions of the n ...

14 and there are major differences of opinion between religions on such matters as the afterlife. We can, however, identify cert ...

15 essential part of many communities, and in some religions has wielded considerable political power. Death and the afterlife M ...

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18 O ur early hunter-gatherer ancestors considered the natural world to have a supernatural quality. For some, this was expresse ...