The Religions Book

DIRECTORY 339 Those who considered his son Ismail to be the rightful successor established a breakaway group, and became known a ...

340 Key (B) Buddhism (C) Christianity (D) Daoism and other Chinese religions (H) Hinduism (I) Islam (J) Judaism (Jn) Jainism (S) ...

GLOSSARY 341 Dao (D) The path or way that an individual aims to follow; the underlying way or pattern governing the working of n ...

342 Kalam (I) Discussion and debate, especially relating to Islamic theology. Kami (Sh) A spirit or deity in Shinto religion. Th ...

343 Torah (J) The first five books of the Hebrew Bible, seen as representing the teaching given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. ...

344 Numbers in bold refer to main entries. A Aborigines (Australian) 19, 34–35 Abraham (Judaism) 166, 170 –71, 175 Abu Bakr (Isl ...

INDEX 345 Buddhism, texts Lotus Sutra 155, 330, 331 Pali Canon 128, 140 , 330 Perfection of Wisdom sutras 157 The Questions of K ...

346 Christianity, figures (cont.) Teresa of Avila (Carmelite nun) 238 Thomas Aquinas 203, 228–29, 242 Wesley, John (Methodism) 2 ...

347 Islam, beliefs (cont.) compassionate God 279 Day of Judgment 279 divine unity doctrine 280–81 Five Pillars 250, 264–69, 271 ...

348 Islam, figures (cont.) Al-Mahdi (Hidden One) 250, 271, 285, 309 Muhammad 250, 252–53, 265, 270–71, 284–85 Qutb, Sayyid 289–9 ...

349 Rastafari (Christianity) 294–95, 305, 314–15, 327 Reconstructionist Judaism 195, 199, 333 Reform Judaism 175, 181, 189, 192, ...

350 Sikhism (cont.) egalitarianism 302–303 five articles of faith (Ks) 299–300, 301 five stages of path to salvation 298–99 Gobi ...

351 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Dorling Kindersley and cobalt id would like to thank Louise Thomas for additional picture research, and Marg ...

352 Rick Piper Photography (tl). 257 Getty Images: Leemage (tl). 259 Corbis: Howard Davies (tr). 260 Corbis: Kazuyoshi Nomachi ( ...