Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

death DEATH As a biological, social, and historical occurrence, death represents the end of life and is a certain fact of living ...

death narrative, the sky is very near to the earth at the beginning of time, and the creator being can let down his gate to huma ...

death suggesting that Jesus dies for us, and these are both merged by Paul in his letters (2 Cor. 5.14). From the punishment imp ...

death provide the proper antidote to the child’s condition, although the mother can only accept a mustard seed from a household ...

demons priest, which is based on the teachings contained in the Bardo Thödol (Tibetan Book of the Dead), in order for it to find ...

dreams DOCTRINE Derived from the Latin doctrina, the concept refers to the body of teach- ings of a church or religion. In the C ...

drugs person cares about most in their life, although specific dreams are not necessarily universal. Dreams are a source for rel ...

drugs LSD. Ancient Indian society develops a sacrificial cult around the halluci- nogenic soma – deified drink of immortality – ...

earth EARTH Conceived from a religious perspective, the earth is a symbolic web of significance that includes its life-giving po ...

ecology If food is a visual sign of the creative and sustaining powers of the earth, the life-giving and nurturing features of t ...

ecology interaction between organisms and their environment. The application of the notion of ecology to religion is a more rece ...

economy Different ecological issues are raised by Native American peoples such as the Mitassini Cree, a hunting, trapping, and g ...

economy unit of weight and currency related, for instance, to a mass of barley. Gold and silver coins are introduced by the Lydi ...

emotion of the tremendous growth of multi-national corporations and their monopolistic tendencies. This intervention follows the ...

eroticism Emotions are socially constructed appraisals of given situations grounded in cultural beliefs and values. Laughter is, ...

ethics interconnection between eroticism, madness, and ecstasy. Rādhā is a paradigm for the human soul searching for God and the ...

evil Rules about what constitutes correct behavior can vary according to a person’s status in life, such as whether one is an ad ...

experience present degenerate age in which humans live in Hinduism, whereas the notion of mappo in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism c ...

experience and contextual in the sense of happening within particular religious com- munities. As the religious scholar Wayne Pr ...

experience Whether stimulated by group practices or triggered by internal subjec- tive incidents, religious experience often tra ...